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From YouTube: New England Gun Summit
Description
Guns are a serious problem throughout the Northeast. At the Bruce Bolling Building in Roxbury, Mayor Walsh and Police Commissioner Evans hosted Mayors and Public Safety Officials from across New England to discuss solutions to gun violence.
A
A
Thank
you
for
coming
today,
as
we
as
we
begin
lining
up
here
on
the
stairs
I
want
to
just
let
everyone
know
the
speaking
program
with
speaking
arrangement
will
be
this
myself.
Commissioner
Evans
will
then
have
Casey
would
speak,
and
then
mayor
Sarno
from
Springfield
mayor
Rivera
from
Lawrence
and
then
we'll
take
questions
after
that,
and
then
any
Boston
based
questions.
I'd
asked
you
to
hold
them
till
the
end.
So
we
get
through
the
gun
summit
questions
and
then
we
can
have
the
Boston
based
question.
A
I
know
you
have
some
questions
about
the
shootings
last
night
in
the
city,
so
we'll
get
into
that
in
a
little
bit.
So
I
wanted
to
thank
you
for
being
here
our
monitor
just
we've
just
omo
with
it.
We
haven't
quite
concluded
our
fourth
annual
summit
yet,
but
we're
in
the
process
of
hearing
couple
more
presentations
and
I
want
to
thank
all
of
the
law
enforcement
elected
officials
that
have
come
from
all
over
New
England's
here
to
be
with
us
here
today.
A
This
is
important
in
the
meaningful
work
for
us
as
mayor's,
but
also
for
many
of
our
cities
and
towns
in
New
England.
On
the
first
day
of
my
administration,
which
seemed
like
two
year,
two
decades
ago,
we
had
a
public
safety
meeting
with
families
of
homicides.
I
knew
it
was
important
to
establish
relationships
with
family
members,
but
to
make
headway
against
gun
violence.
Relationships
are
here
are
just
important
as
relations
we
made
on
that
day,
we
have
issued
illegal
guns.
A
We
have
an
issue
with
illegal
guns
here
in
the
City
of
Austin
to
the
Springfield
City
Alliance
in
many
other
cities
and
towns
working
across
borders
with
our
colleagues
is
how
we're
going
to
continue
to
work
to
solve
these
issues.
It's
also
essential
work
in
light
of
the
obstruction
in
Washington.
That
seems
to
block
all
the
progress.
The
story
here
in
in
New
England
is
different.
The
story
here
in
Boston
is
different
in
our
summit.
So
far,
we've
engaged
six
states
86
different
cities
and
towns,
which
she
had
strategies
and
we've
built
relationships.
A
As
a
result,
we've
partnered
with
researchers
and
safety
advocates
and
we've
engaged
responsible
gun
owners
in
many
of
our
cities.
Today
we
talked
about
our
progress
and
what
what
the
next
steps
are
for
us.
Our
focus
was
on
pilot
projects
that
several
of
our
cities
are
undertaking
in
partnership
with
arms,
with
ethics
arms
with
ethics.
Last
year,
the
Boston
foundation,
support
of
the
summit
by
funding
development
pilot
projects
in
Hartford,
Connecticut
Burlington,
Vermont,
Worcester
Massachusetts
in
Boston.
A
This
project
in
Boston
focused
on
engaging
gun
owners
as
partners
in
an
effort
to
prevent
illegal
guns
and
unsafe
use
of
guns
in
Boston.
We
can
announce
today
some
new
new
resources
to
help
gun
owners,
stay
legal
and
safe.
First,
our
website
was
completed
last
year
using
a
whole
new
approach
to
residents
engagement.
It's
organized
around
practical
topics
like
enrolling
your
kids
in
school,
getting
married,
paying
parking
tickets.
Today
we
add
a
new
page
owning
a
firearm
in
Boston.
Our
second
new
initiative
is
enhancing
gun
owner
outreach.
A
It's
a
comprehensive
toolkit
that
engages
gun
owners
as
partners
in
public
safety,
we're
also
able
to
share
it
with
other
jurisdictions.
We're
certainly
proud
of
this
leading-edge
work.
It
builds
culture,
division,
it
bridges,
culture,
divisions
around
gun
ownership
in
a
way
that
we
hope
will
have
a
national
impact
before
I
turn
the
microphone
over
to
Commissioner
Evans
I
just
want
to
thank
all
of
the
Chiefs
behind
me
and
many
some
didn't
come
down.
We're
often
asked
in
press
conferences.
What
could
we
do?
How
can
we
do
more?
What
should
we
do?
A
What
are
we
going
to
do?
This
move
of
having
this
summit
is
one
of
the
most
important
things
I
think
we
can
do,
because
to
my
knowledge,
this
has
not
happened
anywhere
in
the
United
States
of
America
and
we're
going
to
continue
to
move
forward
to
make
sure
we
get
the
guns
off
our
street,
we're
going
to
continue
to
move
forward
to
work
with
our
partners
in
the
northern
parts
of
New
England
to
make
sure
we
help
them
with
the
flow
of
illegal
drugs
into
their
neighborhoods.
A
We're
going
to
work
to
make
sure
that
we
mix
that
we
do
not
have
situations
like
we
did
last
night
like
like
answers.
That
will
be
questions
we'll
be
taking
a
little
while
about
to
people
losing
their
life
to
the
senseless
gun
violence.
So
again,
I
want
to
thank
you
for
being
in
like
to
turn
the
microphone
over
to
Commissioner
Evans.
B
Thanks
mr.
Maron
I
want
to
thank
the
fellow
mayor's
and
all
my
fellow
police
chiefs
for
being
here
all
over
New
England.
You
know
today
was
about
cheering
best
practices
and
some
of
the
programs
that
we've
been
trying
in
the
pose
and
cons,
but
I
think
we
all
know
that
there's
way
too
many
guns
out
there,
and
that
was
what
we
talked
about
today.
How
do
we
stem
the
flow
of
illegal
guns
into
the
city
and
into
the
fellow
cities?
B
I
think
you
know
ideas
such
as
sending
letters
home
to
the
gun
owners
and
the
gun
locks,
the
gun,
buybacks,
and
you
know
the
the
requirement
of
registering
your
guns
and
then,
if
they're,
stolen,
reported
I
think
that
program
has
worked
well.
The
whole
idea.
We
talked
about
the
process
of
getting
guns
out
of
the
hands
of
mentally
unfit
individuals
and
the
whole
idea
of
taking
their
guns
into
custody.
B
You
know
so
they
don't
possess
them.
So
there
was
a
lot
of
good
ideas
here
today
shared
because
you
know,
like
the
mayor
said,
you
know
we're
seeing
way
too
many
guns
out
there,
not
only
by
what
happened
last
night,
but
I
spoke
earlier
about
guns
are
getting
into
the
hands
of
younger
and
younger
kids.
You
know
over
the
last
three
weeks
we
we
got
to
14
year-olds
with
some
high-powered
guns
out
there,
and
you
know
this,
whether
you're
from
law,
whether
you're
from
Springfield,
whether
you're
from
Worcester.
These
aren't
just
problems
unique
to
Boston.
B
B
You
know
Florida
Georgia
North
Carolina,
so
we
got
out
work
together
to
stop
the
flow
and
I
want
to
thank
mayor,
Walsh
and
all
of
the
fellow
man
basically
coming
together
to
brainstorm
and
stop
the
flow,
because
what
happened
last
night
shouldn't
be
happening,
but
the
only
way
we're
going
to
stop.
It
is
to
stop
the
flow
again.
B
C
So
thank
you,
mayor
Walsh
and
Thank
You
Commissioner
Evans,
for
your
support
and
leadership
on
this
issue.
We're
extremely
proud
to
be
part
of
the
New
England
regional
gun
violence
summit,
because
it
was
a
prime
example
of
how
local
leadership
can
address
an
important
issue
that
is
affecting
so
many
communities
at
arms
of
ethics.
We
believe
in
common-sense
answers
we
partner
with
local
leaders
on
law
enforcement,
led
projects
that
engage
all
sides
on
this
issue,
including
gun
owners,
gun
retailers
and
the
communities
hit
hardest
by
gun
violence.
C
Last
year,
arms
of
ethics
was
funded
by
the
Boston
foundation
to
develop
pilot
project
concepts
in
New
England
cities
participating
in
the
summit.
Our
task
with
this
project
was
to
do
our
part
to
translate
the
information
shared
and
lessons
learned
from
this
regional
collaboration
into
concrete,
tangible
action.
Through
this
project,
arms
of
ethics
has
worked
with
New
England
leaders
on
customized
police
led
projects
on
preventing
the
illegal
flow
and
the
illegal
and
unsafe
use
of
guns.
C
The
projects
that
we
have
developed
with
our
partners
focus
on
crucial
areas
of
concern
that
impact
the
safety
of
our
communities
in
Boston.
As
the
mayor
said,
we
work
to
develop
a
program
to
more
comprehensively
engage
gun
owners
as
partners
in
public
safety.
Today
we
unveiled
the
first
piece
of
this
effort:
a
BPD
and
city
of
Boston
digital
guide
for
gun
owners.
These
online
resources
provide
information
on
staying,
legal
and
safe
as
a
gun
owner
in
Boston.
C
In
Hartford,
we
focused
on
gun
theft,
prevention
working
with
the
police
department
to
engage
gun
owners
about
steps
they
can
take
to
protect
themselves
in
the
community
community
from
gun
theft
and
crimes
committed
with
stolen
guns.
We
continue
to
work
with
them
on
ongoing
research
about
gun
theft.
C
Today,
we
are
announcing
a
working
group
of
law
enforcement
leaders
to
make
this
ambitious
goal
a
reality.
This
regional
effort
will
be
the
first
of
its
kind.
We
look
forward
to
working
with
our
partner
cities
and
others
in
the
region
to
expand
these
efforts
to
collectively
address
gun
violence.
This
summit
provides
a
powerful
platform
to
create
solutions
that
impact
gun,
violence
both
regionally
and
nationally.
We
want
to
thank
our
law
enforcement
partners
in
Boston,
Hartford,
Burlington
and
Worcester
for
their
creativity
and
commitment,
as
we
have
worked
together
on
these
projects.
D
Less
than
2%
of
the
population.
I
repeat:
violent
criminal
offenders
gun
offenders
that,
for
some
reason,
from
the
court
system,
many
at
times
are
let
go
on
low
bail
or
banned,
or
restrictions
on
monitors
and
or
bracelets
only
to
recommit
again
after
we
forge
relationships
in
our
neighborhoods
I
put
across
bail
legislation,
which
is
now
in
the
state
legislation
that
allows
us.
We,
the
people
to
have
an
equal
footing
with
the
defendant.
D
The
defendant
that
repeat
violent
criminal
offender
has
the
ability,
if
they
do
not
like
their
bail,
number
or
bail
restriction
to
kick
it
up
the
Superior,
Court
and
or
a
single
justice
of
the
state
Supreme
Court.
We,
the
people
who
are
victimized,
do
not
have
that
this
legislation
is
currently
in
the
state
legislature.
D
It
takes
no
rights
away
from
others,
but
when
you
speak
to
mayor
Walsh,
Commissioner
Evans,
mayor
Rivera,
Commissioner
Barbieri
a
lot
of
times
on
those
HotList
that
you
see
they
are
the
same
people
perpetrating
these
crimes,
so
I
would
hope
that
we
can
continue
to
get
some
momentum
on
that.
More
reps
are
signing
up.
D
State
representative,
Angelo
Pablo,
is
pushing
that
out
of
Springfield
for
me,
but
again,
I
commend
and
I
thank
mayor,
Walsh
Commissioner
Evans
for
getting
us
all
together,
because
it's
important
that
we
share
best
practices-
and
this
is
a
regional
issue
here-
we're
going
to
work
together
to
make
sure
we
keep
our
streets
safe
and
clean.
So
mayor,
Walsh,
Commissioner
Evans.
Thank
you
so
so
much.
E
You
know
I,
think
back.
I
know
that
mayor
Walsh
thank
mayor
Walsh
for
his
leadership
on
this.
It's
it's
not
easy
to
try
to
get
everybody
together
on
one
page
on
such
an
important
issue,
because
everybody
feels
like
they
have
to
have
an
answer
for
their
local
localities,
but
this
problem
has
no
borders
and
I
did
I
was
elect
at
the
same
time
as
mayor
Walsh,
so
it
seems
like
a
hundred
years
ago,
but
I
tell
you
what
I
can
remember
like
it
was.
E
Yesterday
was
the
first
time
I
had
to
go
to
a
neighborhood
where
a
person
was
shot,
and
it
wasn't
just
that
family
that
was
affected.
There
was
an
illegal
gun,
those
drugs
involved
when
you
think
about
that
moment,
and
it
is
to
rebuild
a
neighborhood
after
that
happens,
it's
a
long
time
work
a
long
term,
a
long
term
work
and
it's
it's
hard
because
you
lose
immediately
the
trust
and
support
of
people
who
said
where
were
you,
and
so
we
come
together
today.
I
think
this
is
the
type
of
things
you
do
proactively.
E
We
were
talking
about
soft
tactics
and
hard
tactics,
making
sure
that
both
things
are
addressed
things
as
simple
as
letters
to
a
legal
home
owners
and
then
making
sure
that
you
know
all
the
laws
are
supposed
to
be
keeping
people
from
having
their
guns.
Who
shouldn't
have
held
up
to
you
know
for
us.
You
think
about
all
the
homicides
happen
under
our
term,
but
if
not
for
guns,
those
homicides
would
not
have
happened
and
illegal
guns
at
that.
E
So,
but
if
not
for
those
illegal
guns,
we
would
have
had
they
would
have
been
just
fights
in
the
streets.
Domestic
violence
situations
would
have
been
fights
between
between
lovers,
but
because
of
the
illegal
guns,
they
were
homicides.
So
I
think
that
talking
about
these
together,
as
mayors
is
important
and
then,
when
you're
sitting
next
to
the
mayor
of
Providence
and
this
mayor
of
Springfield
and
your
rookie
mayor
from
Lawrence,
it
helps
you
put
it
all
into
kind
of
perspective.
You
know
every
day
that
we
can
stop
one
gun
from
being
used.
E
An
illegal
gun
brought
across
the
border
to
be
used
in
Lawrence
as
a
safer
day
for
the
families
of
Lawrence.
Oh,
we,
the
more
we
can
learn
here
today.
We
can
make
long
a
little
bit
safer,
so
I
appreciate
being
invited
here.
I
love.
The
conversation
we're
having
upstairs
data
is
at
the
base
of
all
of
it.
At
the
end
of
the
day,
myself
and
Chi
Fitzpatrick
of
our
Police
Department
will
take
it
back
to
Lawrence
and
put
it
to
work.
Thank
you.
A
A
Well,
one
of
the
things
let
me
just
I'll
begin
to
address
in
Neponset
right
down
the
list
here.
What
one
of
the
one
of
the
presentations
that
were
in
the
middle
of
upstairs
was
gun
shops
in
Vermont,
Maine,
New,
Hampshire,
they're,
very
different
laws
as
compared
to
Massachusetts,
Rhode,
Island
and
Connecticut,
and
we
were
concerned
about
there's
a
piece
of
legislation.
A
B
Currently,
no,
but
what
the
mayor
is
saying
is
basically
you
know
this
legislation
now
that
if
you
get
a
right
to
carry
a
gun
in
in
in
an
state
any
state
you
can
take
in
any
way
you
want,
and
we
have
some
real
issues
with
that.
Just
think
of
how
difficult
it
would
be
to
police
a
marathon,
please
any
major
event.
If
people
could
come
from
all
over
the
country
and
just
carry
their
guns-
and
you
know
we
have
caps
laws
here
on
selling
carrying
coming
over
the
border.
B
We
don't
want
that
to
go
away
because
they've
just
be
a
constant
flow,
and
so
that
that's
what
we're
talking
about
here,
reciprocity.
Basically,
we
don't
want
the
ability
of
people
just
to
cross,
come
from,
let's
say
California
and
be
able
to
carry
without
a
permit.
And
so
that's
that's
what
we
were
talking
about
any.
A
Mean
I
think
it's
hard
to
judge
what
progress
is.
That's
one
of
the
things
I
think
that
and
I'm
going
to
up
Casey
address
that
a
little
bit
more
latch.
The
last
summit
we
talked
about
partnering
with
the
Boston
foundation.
The
BAS
Foundation
made
the
award
final
dimes
of
ethics.
They
came
in
with
the
presentation
on
what
they
were
going
to
do.
Let
me
have
Casey
address
some
of
that
and
then
we'll
follow
up
to
that.
To
that
question.
C
As
I
said
before,
the
the
focus
of
these
project
was
translating
all
this
energy
information
shared
shared
experiences
into
tangible
action,
and
so
we
spent
the
last
year
going
into
these
departments
because
we've
know
primarily,
our
primary
point
of
contact
is
police
assessing
what
their
needs.
What
are
the
things?
The
opportunities
are
in
terms
of
what
we
do,
which
is
preventing
a
legal
or
illegal,
illegal
flow
or
illegal
or
unsafe
use
of
guns,
and
based
on
that,
that's
how
we
decided
with
these
projects
were
going
to
be
I.
Think
you
were
asking
about.
C
How
do
we
keep
these
guns
from
coming?
In
you
know
we
have
one
project
in
Hartford:
that's
about
gun,
fed
prevention.
There
are
about
they're
between
300
and
500
thousand
guns
that
are
still
in
the
United
States
every
year
and
all
of
those
are
instant
crime
guns
by
definition,
they
fall
into
crime.
A
lot
of
any
of
these
Chiefs
could
probably
tell
you
how
many
it's
it's
hard.
C
The
data
is
difficult
to
manage,
but
every
week
they're
picking
up
guns
that
were
stolen
that
were
then
using
crimes,
so
we're
tackling
specific
issues
that
they
have
identified.
As
opportunity
areas
for
impacting
gun
violence
in
their
communities,
and
then
these
projects
we're
developing
testing
and
then
creating
them
as
a
replicable
version
that
we
can
then
push
out
through
these
summit
cities
in
a
way
that's
much
more
time-efficient
than
normal
replication
of
projects.
I
had
25
cities
in
the
room
today.
A
Also
I
think
I
think
the
ability
that
builds
networking
and
working
together
so
in
2015,
when
President
Obama
came
down
with
his
decorative
order
on
background
checks.
You
know
a
lot
of
us
in
the
room
was
no
resistance
from
from
Maine
New
Hampshire
Vermont
Massachusetts
Rhode
Island
Connecticut,
because
it
was
an
understanding
of
what
it
did
it
expanded
for
72
hours
for
a
background
check
in
this
legislation
we
talked
about
today
again
working
collaboratively
together
on
not
being
able
to
bring
you
a
gun
across
the
border.
E
I'll
tell
you
I,
think
I'm
I'm
hopeful,
because
we
keep
meeting
and
talking
about
it
and
trying
to
stem
the
tide,
but
it
feels
like
one
step
forward
three
steps
back
because
on
this
issue,
like
the
opioid
crisis,
like
immigration,
like
a
lot
of
federal
government
problems,
there
absent
and
they're
not
partnering
with
us,
so
we
have
to
figure
out
a
creative,
creative
ways
to
deal
with
this
matter.
But
if
this
was
a
business
problem,
IBM
had
a
business
problem
Microsoft
as
a
business
problem.
E
They
don't
scoot
around,
they
just
say:
what's
the
problem,
the
problem
here
is
people
illegally
buying
buying
guns
illegally
and
then
using
them
illegally.
How
do
we
stop
that
period?
But
we
can't
get
to
that
because
of
the
I
think?
What's
the
inaction
in
Washington,
but
also
the
unwillingness
to
tackle
the
big
issues
of
the
day
by
a
federal
government,
let.
D
Me
just
say
something
whether
it's
mayor,
Walsh,
myself
or
Mayor,
Revere
nobody's
against
Second
Amendment
rights.
Nobody
is
for
gun
trafficking,
nobody
wants
an
illegal
gun
or
a
gun
in
a
mental
health
person's
hand.
Nobody
wants
what
we're
seeing
now,
and
this
is
what's
coming
together
as
we're
all
working
together,
that
you
see
from
suburban
areas.
You
see
from
rural
areas
that
they
are
trading
in
their
guns
for
drugs,
the
opioid
crisis,
mayors
he
or
she
are
people
of
action.
We
have
to
respond
immediately.
D
We
can't
pontificate
on
the
federal
level
on
an
issue
for
six
months.
Two
years
on
it,
we
have
to
have
action.
People
want
stuff
done
so
by
Mayor,
Walsh,
bringing
us
all
together
here.
This
is
working
regionally,
so
we
cooperate
when
we
see
a
pipeline
of
illegal
activity.
Moving
forward,
there'll
be
some
that
want
to
twist
this
effort.
This
is
it
nobody
again
nobody's
for
again
gun
trafficking.
Nobody
wants
guns
in
hands
of
people
of
mental
health
issues.
D
Nobody
wants
our
young
people
that
have
these
guns
and
and
again
we're
going
to
as
focus
many-a-times
is
on
less
than
2%
of
the
population,
whether
gangbangers
drug
dealers
etc,
and
when
our
brave
and
men
and
women
in
blue
picked
them
up.
That's
why
this
bail
legislation
for
it?
They
need
to
be
helped
and
they
need
to
be
put
away
for
a
long
time
and
send
that
message.
But
again
nobody
is
trying
to
infringe
upon
Second
Amendment
rights
here
on
it.