also, ed district attorney gaston's group. last night, the standard trustco police commission held a meeting in visitation valley. many of the people that attended last night, including chief sur, paul henderson, mary harris, and many others were there. i wanted to thank sharon for working with the closely regarding the issues in visitation valley. actually, for years, we all know that there has been disturn thet sector. we have the highest homicide rates on our youth, mainly because of gun violence. why does it take a terrible tragedy, like the aurora shootings to make people understand all this going on? we need to work vigorously to ban assault weapons, the sale of firearms and ammunition via the internet, and easy accessibility of guns in the city. will san francisco take the lead to address these serious issues? my request when everyone mentions this is, if not now, when? we talk about it, we cry about it, we pray about it, but we have not been able to really do anything about gun-control. obviously, prevention and interv