“In this moment, I don’t give a damn about partisan ... what I care about and what is my concern, my top priority is public safety.”
Birmingham Mayor Randall Woodfin, emotional and angry after a mass shooting in one of the city’s most popular entertainment districtsThose conversion devices, which turn a semi-automatic weapon into a fully automatic weapon that unleashes all of its bullets in just seconds, don’t belong on any city street, he said.
Saturday’s deadly shooting was the second mass shooting in the city in just two months, and the third quadruple homicide in Birmingham this year. “We’ve seen this in this 60s with segregation, at the height of it unfortunately we were the poster child and find ourselves in 2024 where gun violence is at an epidemic level and an epidemic crisis in our country and unfortunately the City of Birmingham finds itself unfortunately at the tip of that spear,’’ he said.Woodfin said at the height of gun violence in the U.S., which was in the 1990s, the ban on assault weapons was passed.
Since the assault weapons ban was lifted, he said, the city has not only seen a jump in homicides, but in the style of weapons used in those killings – guns outfitted with switches.“We don’t have any interest in this whole debate about Second Amendment rights,’’ he said. “Glock switches are federally outlawed. And while they’re outlawed on my left hand, you also have Congress not giving ATF the actual organization design to enforce and take them off the street. You’re cutting their resources at the federal level,’’ he said.
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