The Palo Alto City Council on Monday voted unanimously to restrict concealed firearms from being carried in certain locations deemed sensitive, while also holding open the possibility of adding to the list of restricted locations in the future.
Councilmembers passed both an emergency ordinance, making it effective immediately, and a separate, standard ordinance that will allow amendments to the original language and make the ordinance available for public comment.
Included in the emergency ordinance was a direction to staff to draft a resolution that states that the city is deeply concerned for the safety of its residents given what it called an epidemic of gun violence in Santa Clara County, California, and the U.S. "I don't know if this is really helping, but what I think it does do is, the people who are law-abiding, who do get concealed weapon permits, who maybe happen to be sitting at city council, and whoever is not so law abiding and didn't get a concealed weapon permit pulls a gun, you know, it makes it tougher for them to be protected I guess, or to protect," he said.
Tanaka challenged her to provide any data that showed those shootings would have been prevented by restricting legally concealed firearms, which drew a rebuke from Councilmember Patrick Burt, who said that no gun control measure is a"panacea" and called the argument"specious."
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