Oliver in “Unfinished Business”

Oliver

[addressing the citizens of Star City] Thank you all for being here. In light of what's happened, I thought it important that we gather as a city and remember those that we've lost. After everything that Star City has endured in the past several years, it would be easy to become immune or desensitized to the violence that purveys our lives. And it would be human to want to respond to that violence with violence. When I think of all the people that I've lost, I remember the choices that I was forced to make in light of those tragedies. Some choices were easy. But the important choices, the choices that were worth making, they were hard. And hard choices require bravery. Fortunately, we live in the home of the brave, and we don't run from hard choices. We rise up and we face tomorrow together. This afternoon, councilwoman Pollard and I met with the city council to pass the Star City Firearms Freedom Act, a policy that respects our freedom and our lives, shows that we can do both. Now we just have to be brave enough to do it.