At the State of City Address Mayor Walsh proposed the creation of the first ever Mayor's Office to Reduce Gun Violence. He says ‘we must do more to make out city safer, and we will.’
Activists in Syracuse said that Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand's new gun trafficking legislation, Hadiya Pendleton and Nyasia Pryear-Yard Gun Trafficking & Crime Prevention Act, was a step in the right direction but long overdue.