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Clerk 03/19/2018
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A MOTION endorsing the student-led March 24, 2018, March for Our Lives, urging the United States Congress to pass legislation to reduce gun violence and to ban assault-style weapons, and calling upon the Washington state Legislature to repeal the state preemption in RCW 9.41.290, thereby allowing King County and other local governments to adopt common sense gun laws, rules and regulations that will protect its citizenry in the absence of state action.
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WHEREAS, only eleven weeks into 2018, there have already been at least 15 shootings on elementary, middle, and high school and college campuses in the United States which averages to about 1.4 per week, and those shootings include a January 4 shooting at New Start High School in Seattle, a January 9 shooting at Coronado Elementary School in Arizona, a January 12 shooting at Jackson State University in Mississippi, a January 16 shooting at Montpelier High School in Vermont, a January 19 shooting at Del Norte High School in New Mexico, a January 20 shooting at Wake Forest University in North Carolina, a January 22 shooting at Italy High School in Texas, a January 23 shooting at Marshall County High School in Kentucky, a January 26 shooting at Dearborn High School in Michigan, a January 30 shooting at Belleville West High School in Illinois, a January 31 shooting at Lincoln High School in Philadelphia, a February 1 shooting at Salvador B. Castro Middle School in Los Angeles, a February 5 shooting at Oxon Hill High School in Maryland, a February 9 shooting at Pearl-Cohn High School in Tennessee and a February 14 shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, and
WHEREAS, in the past five years, eight school shootings have occurred in Washington state, four of which resulted in injury or death, and
WHEREAS, gun violence, and threats of gun violence, in schools undermine the sense of security that all students should have in their learning environments, and...
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