Our city attorney has responded to that request, creating a proposed form of ordinance that is contingent in its implementation upon our council passing a resolution should the legislature ever choose to overturn the ban on cities regulating the sale of certain types of firearms and ammunition.

It does say the legislature preempts all authority of cities to regulate firearms, ammunition, and their components to the complete exclusion of any ordinance uh passed by that city. There's one exception to that, and that is regulation of discharge of firearms within the city.

As the grandmother who held this baby Fletcher Merkel, who lost his life at the enunciation shooting, I can only talk to him now in my dreams. I'm asking for people to reflect on what cultural and social impedance we can set up. What would help to limit the gun violence?

gun control laws have not reduced crime in other cities. You have to take on you have to look at the experience of other cities. There are many studies published on this topic. Cities, if you look at cities with very strict gun laws like Chicago and New York and others, they still have very high rates of violent crime.

Mass shootings involving assault weapons result in six times as many people shot and twice as many people killed as compared to incidents involving other firearms. When large capacity magazines are used, the number of people killed increases by more than 60%. The number wounded by more than 100%.

The right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed. Those words apparently don't mean much... Why would you try to restrict and interfere with law-abiding citizens that had nothing to do with this act of evil?

Since 2020, gunshot wounds have been the leading cause of death among kids ages 1 to 17 in the United States. Not cancer, not car crashes, not peanut allergies, gunshot wounds.

This did not have to happen. I'm not referring simply to violence that has and always will be with us but rather the sheer even grotesque immensity of the violence. Of the 119 rounds of gunfire discharged, 116 were fired in a minute from illegally purchased semiotic automatic weapon.

America is embarrassingly and inexcusably alone with regard to the frequency and the quantum of gun violence. This is a uniquely American problem and it's because in America it is easier to it is easier to legally own a weapon of war than it is to drive a car.

We can't do anything locally until the state does it. They have the authority over our municipality and every m municipality in the state. We have to put our efforts toward state level and from there go on to national to the federal level.

right or wrong, under current state and federal law, you as Edina City Council members have no legal ability or authority to pass gun regulations. I would strongly encourage you to pass a proclamation that supports all of the regulations outlined in the proposed ordinance. It will accomplish the same goal.

We don't have any greater incidence of mental health problems than any other country in the world, but we're there's a lot more people getting killed here with military-style assault weapons than anywhere in the world. So, to say that guns aren't a factor here is denying the reality of what is indeed going on.