OFFICE OF THE MAYOR
CITY OF CHICAGO
RAHM EMANUEL
MAYOR
December 12, 2018
TO THE HONORABLE, THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF CHICAGO
Ladies and Gentlemen:
I transmit herewith a resolution in support of Pittsburgh Mayor Peduto's efforts to ban assault weapons and high-capacity magazines.
Your favorable consideration of this resolution will be appreciated.
Mayor
Very truly yours,
RESOLUTION
WHEREAS, The Honorable William Peduto, Mayor of Pittsburgh, has called on local leaders across the nation to join with Pittsburgh in introducing legislation to ban assault weapons, large capacity ammunition devices, and other accessories that accelerate the rate of fire of these weapons; and
WHEREAS, The City of Chicago has been a leader in gun-control legislation and agrees wholeheartedly that local leaders should do all they can to ban assault weapons, high-capacity magazines, and certain accessories that only serve to increase the lethal nature of firearms; and
WHEREAS, It is important to be conscious ofthe haunting tragedies caused by assault weapons, both within our own community and in the greater community ofthe United States; and
WHEREAS, Six years ago, on December 14, 2012, a man in Newtown, Connecticut, armed with three semiautomatic guns, shot his way into Sandy Hook Elementary School and shot twenty-eight people, killing six adults and twenty children; and
WHEREAS, On June 17, 2015, a man wielding a semiautomatic handgun and several high-capacity magazines shot and killed eleven people in a Charleston church during a prayer service; and
WHEREAS, On June 12, 2016, in Orlando, Florida, a man armed with a semiautomatic rifle and semiautomatic pistol equipped with high-capacity magazines shot and killed forty-nine people and injured fifty-three others in the deadliest violent incident against the LGBT community in the nation's history; and
WHEREAS, On October 1, 2017, a man committed the deadliest mass shooting in our nation's history at a music festival in...
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