Lexington’s vice mayor is expressing frustration with what he feels is a lack of federal response to gun violence. Dan Wu’s comments come following the mass shooting this week in Nashville taking the lives of six people, three of them children. The first-term vice mayor said when more gun restrictions didn’t come after the Sandy Hook school shootings in 2012 he gave up mentally. Wu said he doesn’t have the emotional energy to feel outrage anymore. “And it’s hard to be numb to that. I don’t want to be numb to that. But also from a local level, there’s nothing, there’s not much that we could do to move that needle,” said Wu.
Wu said this is an issue the urban county government can’t do much about because the city council can’t create any laws that supersede state or federal statutes.
