Oakland Mayor Barbara Lee hosted a regional conference on gun violence on Friday, bringing together local mayors, law enforcement and community organizations. Mayor Lee addressed gun violence as a “regional public health crisis.”
“We are working hard to make sure that the guns – the weapons of war, which I call them – are eliminated from the streets of Oakland,” said Mayor Lee. “It’s an issue of violence. It’s an issue of affordable housing… Many people have issues around poverty, lack of education. But we also have to have accountability.”…