 said that, you know, that responsible gun owners are certainly not our problem and have never been our problem, given that the only responsible gun owners are likely to abide, much less recognize the ban that they were trying to implement. It's unclear how this action will lead to measurable decline in gun violence in our community. Moreover, concerning the extraordinary resistance that many citizens have to certain public health restrictions during the recent COVID pandemic, I believe it is unwise to stretch the definition of public health emergency to encompass