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S O q COUNTYi HAWAII tSTATE OF eT�•� Ni MrtOV ip\\ HAWAII 1TE OF•NP� RESOLUTION NO. 440 22 A RESOLUTION CONDEMNING GUN VIOLENCE AND SUPPORTING STRENGTHENING GUN LAWS IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. WHEREAS, on May 24, 2022, an eighteen-year-old man walked into Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, with two legally purchased AR platform rifles and killed at least nineteen children and two adults; and WHEREAS,this heartbreaking and deplorable murder of innocent children was the 134th deadly mass shooting and the 27th school shooting so far in 2022; and WHEREAS, American children and teenagers have a fifty-seven percent higher death rate than nineteen similarly developed countries and children from fifteen through nineteen years of age are eighty-two times more likely to be shot and killed, compared to the same age range in similarly developed countries; and WHEREAS,the United States of America has the highest rate of gun related homicide in the developed world, eighteen times higher than the average rate in other developed countries with one per every twenty-five thousand people killed by gun violence; and WHEREAS, other developed countries such as Australia, South Africa,New Zealand, and England have adopted gun safety measures that have resulted in a reduction of gun related deaths; now, therefore, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE COUNTY OF HAWAII that it condemns gun violence in the state of Hawaii and across the United States of America. BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the Hawaii County Council proclaims its support for gun safety measures that have proven to be effective, such as a national background check mandate, a national red flag law, a national age limit at or above twenty-one years for gun purchases, restricting the sale of assault rifles and high capacity magazines, and a national prohibition of gun purchases by individuals that have recently be charged with drug and alcohol crimes, domestic violence or terroristic threatening. BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the Hawaii County Council strongly encourages the United States Congress to establish gun safety measures that help ensure tragedies such as the Robb Elementary School shootings do not continue to occur.