Whereas, on November 7, 2018, a mass shooting took place at the Borderline Bar and Grill in Thousand Oaks, California, where residents and students were enjoying a night of country music and dancing; Whereas many individuals were wounded and 12 innocent people were tragically killed in the attack, including— (1) students; (2) a law enforcement officer; (3) veterans; and (4) a survivor of the mass shooting that took place at the Route 91 Harvest Festival in Las Vegas, Nevada, in October 2017 and at which 58 people were tragically killed; Whereas the people of California and the United States are thankful to law enforcement officials, firefighters, and emergency medical teams for their quick response to the shooting; Whereas the attack was committed by a gunman armed with smoke bombs and a Glock semiautomatic pistol equipped with a high-capacity ammunition magazine; Whereas the shooting in Thousand Oaks is the deadliest mass shooting in the State of California since the 2015 terror attack in San Bernardino that took the lives of 14 people; Whereas Thousand Oaks is considered one of the safest cities in the United States by the Federal Bureau of Investigation, demonstrating that no community in the United States is safe from the threat of gun violence; Whereas mass shootings are an increasingly pervasive danger in the United States and threaten schools, theaters, malls, offices, bars, concerts, and places of worship; and Whereas the people of Thousand Oaks have now joined the ever-growing list of communities that have been forced to endure a mass shooting: Now, therefore, be it