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 I definitely agree with your argument, I feel that us as a nation could've avoided many of these tragedies that broke apart families and took away many loved ones. Gun control is an ongoing issue that doesn't quite make sense if 23 incidents have occurred in 2018 alone that involves the mass killing of innocent civilians, this should be an eye opener to our Government. Unfortunately, we have organizations such as the NRA that control many of the aspects of the laws on gun reform through their power of lobbying our government. The NRA has been operating since 1975 specifically for what they want gun reform to look like in the United States. I feel like not much can be done until a just as strong organization can move against the horrific ideology of the NRA.

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With the overwhelming increase in both cost of living and gentrification of traditional Austin neighborhoods, it is my strong conviction that our local city government should move forward with plans to provide for affordable housing projects to preserve our shrinking community.

Plans such as this have received widespread community support, and many drafts of potential plans have been shown to be both popular and implementable. For instance, the People’s Plan is once such proposed solution that even local politicians ostensibly support, yet they still to this day have failed to make actionable moves to have the plan put into practice in the city while our community continued to lose ground to skyrocketing property taxes.

The failure of local politicians (most notable recently being councilman Greg Casar) to make good on plans the community has supported has served to further divide the community even more, with many of those affected greatest by the changes in property taxes facing an ever looming threat of losing their homes and livelihoods. The massive increases our community has been experiencing in these rates demands that our local government act swiftly, before our community is irrevocably changed.

The failure of local politicians (most notable recently being councilman Greg Casar) to make good on plans the community has supported has served to further divide the community even more, with many of those affected greatest by the changes in property taxes facing an ever looming threat of losing their homes and livelihoods. The massive increases our community has been experiencing in these property tax rates demands that our local government act swiftly, before our community is irrevocably changed and it’s people done overwhelming economic harm.