San Jose Mayor Sam Liccardo Takes Plea For Harder Gun Management Legal guidelines To The White Home – CBS San Francisco

SAN JOSE (CBS SF) – While his city was still rocking a mass shooting that killed nine transit workers, Mayor Sam Liccardo brought his plea for stricter gun control laws to the White House for a meeting with President Joe Biden on Monday.

Liccardo will attend the meeting of Eric Adams, President of the Brooklyn District and likely the next Mayor of New York, Washington, DC, Mayor Muriel Bowser, Memphis Police Chief, CJ Davis, Chicago Chief David Brown and Lt. Anthony Lima of Newark attend, New Jersey, Police.

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It has been almost two months since VTA employee Samuel Cassidy opened fire on his employees in the Guadalupe Yard transit center. He killed nine employees before taking his own life.

The VTA light rail trains have still not returned to normal as the agency has been devastated by the ongoing emotional impact of the shooting.

Two weeks after the shootings, Liccardo announced several proposed new San Jose gun ordinances, including requiring gun owners to purchase liability insurance for their guns and retailers to videotape their gun sales.

The city council unanimously approved the plan, which will be presented for final vote in the fall before the ordinances can be enacted.

On Monday, Liccardo told KPIX 5 Morning News that he would press for stricter national gun laws during the president’s meeting with city officials from across the country.

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“We’ll talk a lot about how the federal government can be a partner to cities,” he said. “We’re seeing increasing gun violence in cities across the county … So we’re going to talk about how we’re using federal funds to, for example, expand strike patrols in high-crime neighborhoods, to occupy young adults in gang-hit neighborhoods, and the resilience of.” to support the city. “

“We (will) talk more about (the) innovative approaches cities are taking to reduce gun violence, like the recent regulation we put in place to crack down on arms dealers who buy straw.”

A “straw” purchase of a firearm is when a person buys a weapon – generally in a state with less restrictive sales laws – with the intention of giving the weapon to another person.

In June, Biden unveiled a number of implementing regulations aimed at reducing gun violence. Liccardo believes that even stricter standards are needed, especially when it comes to arms trafficking and straw purchases.

“We know that there are a lot of guns in circulation – around 30,000 guns are bought for example for criminal organizations like gangs,” said Liccardo. “So we’ve got safeguards in place here in San Jose, but we need other parts of the country to do the same because we know guns are usually bought in states with no restrictive gun laws and taken to California.”

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“The possibility of federal tracking and surveillance would help enormously. So we can take action against the organizations that transport weapons in and out of cities. “