7/30/2019 Mayor Joins Gun Control Demonstration - Pasadena
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2/15
Pasadena Mayor Bill Bogaard joined Occupy Democracy Pasadenas
march and candlelight vigil Saturday afternoon held to
remember the Connecticut elementary school massacre and to
garner support for stiffer federal gun control laws.
This is a chance to give witness to a very strong concern, a
very strong commitment to take proper actions in the wake of the
tragedy
in Newtown, Connecticut, with respect to regulation of guns in
this country, Bogaard said. There are steps that can be taken that
are
not inconsistent with Constitutional protections.
Those steps are absolutely necessary to protect our young people
and to protect others from mass murderers, he said.
Organizer Patrick Briggs said Were standing up for the idea that
we have 50 percent more of our work left to do and this is to
stand
up for reasonable gun regulation in this country and that means
banning assault weapons, closing the gun show loophole, banning
ammo clips that are more than ten bullets in a cartridge.
Saturdays demonstration at 4:30 p.m. and included a march from
City Hall to the Paseo Colorado shopping mall.
Mayor Bill Bogaard joined at City Hall and walked the
distance.
The demonstrators platform included expanding community mental
health options and the immediate passage of the Feinstein
Assault
Weapons Ban.
There is a hope that all of this will summon in all of us to
make a change that is really significant, said Jane Fellman, one of
the
Occupy Democracy Pasadena demonstrators.
Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif) said she plans to introduce an
assault weapons ban on the first day of the new Congress in
January,
adding that the same bill will also be introduced in the House
of Representatives.
It will ban the sale, the transfer, the importation and the
possession, not retroactively, but prospectively, and ban the sale
of clips of
more than ten bullets, said Feinstein on NBCs Meet the Press.
The purpose of this bill is to get weapons of war off the
streets.
President Bill Clinton signed an assault weapons ban into law in
1994, but the measure expired a decade later. Democrats have
tried
several times since then to renew the ban, without success.
Ive been for many years feeling that gun control is absolutely
essential in America, said Inman Moore, during Saturdays
demonstration. Im one of those who really is not sure the Second
Amendment (of the Constitution) is specifically saying that
every
person has a right to have any kind of gun they want.
