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�JNtvJOF how Roy Takemoto <br /> Managing Director <br /> Harry Kim <br /> Mayor <br /> ; "--------- Barbara J.Kossow <br /> Deputy Managing Director <br /> County of Hawai`i <br /> Office of the Mayor <br /> 25 Aupuni Street,Suite 2603 • Hilo, Hawaii 96720 • (808)961-8211 • Fax(808)961-6553 <br /> KONA: 74-5044 Ane Keohokalole Hwy.,Bldg C • Kailua-Kona,Hawaii 96740 <br /> (808)323-4444 • Fax(808)323-4440 <br /> February 4, 2020 <br /> Representative Gregg Takayama, Chair <br /> Representative Cedric Asuega Gates, Vice Chair <br /> Committee on Public Safety, Veterans, & Military Affairs <br /> Representative Chris Lee, Chair <br /> Representative Joy A. San Buenaventura, Vice Chair <br /> Committee on Judiciary <br /> Hawaii State Legislature <br /> Dear Chairs Takayama and Lee, Vice-Chairs Gates and San Buenaventura, and Committee members: <br /> RE: HB 2710 Relating to Protective Orders <br /> HB 2232 Relating to Firearms <br /> HB 2709 Relating to the Uniform Probate Code <br /> HB 1600 Relating to Firearms <br /> HB 1902 Relating to Firearms <br /> The First Amendment to the Constitution of the United States provides for freedom of religion, <br /> speech, and press; and the right to peaceably assemble and to petition the government. Yet, as <br /> fundamental and sacrosanct as those values are to America, few if any would argue that those <br /> freedoms are not subject to reasonable restrictions (take the cliché of "yelling 'Fire' in a crowded <br /> theater"). <br /> Similarly, the Second Amendment guarantees the right to keep and bear arms. This right, too, <br /> must be subject to reasonable restrictions, or else we would each be able to have our own machine <br /> gun mounted on our mantelpiece or strapped over our shoulders. <br /> So the question comes down to what is reasonable. That should be determined by a free <br /> people acting through their elected representatives, in this case our State Legislature. And given the <br /> times in which we live, and the carnage that we have witnessed both in our own state and across the <br /> country, I thank you for taking on the divisive but crucial task of deciding what reasonable restrictions <br /> might be. <br /> You have five bills on this agenda that impact the right to keep and bear arms: <br /> County of Hawaii is an Equal Opportunity Provider and Employer. <br />