'To reduce gun harm, we'll need many interventions -- both innovative and familiar ones. ... It's time to move beyond prayers and platitudes to action,' writes Sam Liccardo, the mayor of San Jose, for CNNOpinion
Sam Liccardo is the mayor of San Jose, America's 10th largest city. He has written op-eds published by the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, San Francisco Chronicle, The Hill and the Mercury News. The views expressed in this commentary are his own. View more opinion at CNN.
In my city, a mass shooting took the lives of nine people at a transit rail yard in May. In the three weeks since, while friends and family have grieved over their devastating loss, San Jose suffered about 15 more episodes of gun violence, according to San Jose Police Department records received by my office.
No longer do these facts startle; our nation has become desensitized to the ubiquity of gun violence. After each horror, prayers and platitudes precede what can only be described as a quiet conspiracy of congressional inaction and a distracting news cycle that anesthetizes our collective outrage. We move on.Sam LiccardoGrieving communities don't have the luxury of forgetting.
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