A National Summit is needed to encourage the Island’s agencies to work together to tackle gun violence.This is the recommendation of the joint select committee on violent crime and gun violence which wants to see agencies “assessing what can and cannot be reasonably done”.The National Summit would then help provide the seed work for a National Plan to ensure tackling these problems is “Bermuda’s number one priority”.The recommendation came after the parliamentary joint select committee issued its report to the House of Assembly today.The task force has made recommendations in the areas of gang legislation, the Bermuda Police Service, Department of Corrections, border controls, drugs, education system and families.At a press conference Randy Horton, chairman of the joint select committee, said the task force had “enjoyed tremendous public support” with 47 presentations made to them.He said: “The joint select committee’s work was merely the beginning in the move to eradicating these extremely destructive behaviours from our community.“Presentations identified a wide range of closely inter-related problem areas, all of which cannot be tackled immediately and at the same time.“It also became readily evident that the issues of violent crime and gun violence are complex and have their roots in many of Bermuda’s social problems. There is no simple solution, nor is there only one solution.”