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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.
BE IT FINALLY RESOLVED that the County Clerk shall transmit a copy of this
resolution to the Honorable Joe Biden, President of the United States of America; the Honorable
Charles E. Schumer, United States Senate Majority Leader; the Honorable Nancy Pelosi, United
States Speaker of the House of Representatives; the honorable members of the Hawai'i
Congressional delegation; the Honorable David Y. Ige, Governor of the State of Hawai`i; and the
Honorable Mitchell D. Roth, Mayor of the County of Hawai`i.
Dated at Kona , Hawai`i,this 15th day of June , 20 22 .
INTRODUCED BY:
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O UNCIL MEM tER, COUNTY OF HAWAII
COUNTY COUNCIL ROLL CALL VOTE
County of Hawai`i AYES NOES ABS EX
Hilo, Hawai`i CHUNG X
DAVID X
I hereby certify that the foregoing RESOLUTION was by INABA X
the vote indicated to the right hereof adopted by the COUNCIL of the KANEALI`I-KLEINFELDER X
County of Hawai`i on June 15, 2022
KIERKIEWICZ X
KIMBALL X
ATTEST: LEE LOY X
RICHARDS X
VILLEGAS X
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