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Our Health Department as well. The question for us, then, is what do we do about it . And not only can we share in this tragedy and signal our sympathies to the families as weve done, but weve got to do something more. And this is where i want to make sure i recognize all of the people that are in that effort of doing something about it, including the officials in San Francisco. And some have been at this longer than others to try to do something about it, have reached limitations. Yet again, i think this tragedy at sandy hook reminds us that weve got to keep trying and weve got to keep doing ...

Cohen and dr. Campbell and the whole Public Health staff have always had dialogue and been concerned especially when there is an uptick in june of this year on Violent Crime and homicides in San Francisco. And, so, weve been working together on creating a program which i announced some months ago, the ipo program, the ability to work on things that would interrupt and intervene earlier in the behavior patterns of people that would be both victims and perpetrators of Violent Crime in our city. To support the Police Department and Law Enforcement system of doing more predictive policing using bo...

I also want to recognize the three state senators, senator de leon, state senator leland yee and state senator ted gains, all three of which are sponsoring some five different pieces of state legislation aimed at banning assault weapons and munitions, getting higher levels of background checks and registries, and also i think senator gains is attempting to also make sure that those that have backgrounds of Mental Health challenges are lifetime bans of possessing these weapons. Again, in an attempt to do what we can. In San Francisco, we tried to ban assault weapons some years ago. We were unsu...

Good morning, everyone. Thank you for being here. You know, as we look through this year, theres obviously some incredible events that have occurred. And for me as mayor of San Francisco, i know that the chief and i and supervisor cohen and dr. Campbell and the whole Public Health staff have always had dialogue and been concerned especially when there is an uptick in june of this year on Violent Crime and homicides in San Francisco. And, so, weve been working together on creating a program which i announced some months ago, the ipo program, the ability to work on things that would interrupt an...

With her, and the tragedies shes experienced as mayor of San Francisco as well as her attempts to ban assault weapons and had done so in the past, and that her federal assault legislation, while ended, she will reintroduce that in january and we will be big supporters of that. And she will continue dialoguing on a national level, and we will support her efforts and the efforts of all of our federal officials to do more, along with the president of the United States and congress to act. And, in fact, i joined over 750 other mayors across this country, using social media and the technology thats...