Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti (D) urged other mayors facing gun violence in their communities to search out young activists in a CNN op-ed Monday.

"While many mayors haven't had to face mass shootings, almost all of us have dealt with scores of deaths by guns in our communities," he wrote.

"As a result, there is now a grim circle of mayors — from Las Vegas to Orlando and San Bernardino to Parkland — who have to lead their people forward in the wake of unthinkable tragedy."

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"We're taking action ourselves, with a hard focus on empowering young people who are armed only with simple, righteous demands: that we forcefully call out hate speech, and take courageous, meaningful, and lasting steps to keep weapons out of the hands of people who shouldn't have them."

Three mass shooting rocked the U.S in a span of two weeks less than a month ago.

After a deadly shooting at the Gilroy Garlic Festival in Northern California, 22 people were killed at an El Paso, Texas, Walmart.

Less than 24 hours later, nine people were killed in a shooting in Dayton, Ohio.

Those tragedies have reinvigorated efforts to combat gun violence.

Garcetti pointed to young activists as a group to increasingly look to while developing strategies to combat the epidemic.

"I was reminded of that truth at the inaugural US Conference of Mayors Youth Summit late last month, where mayors from across the country convened in Los Angeles to hear from the young people who are the leaders of today and tomorrow," he wrote.

"Some of those young leaders were members of my own Youth Council to End Gun Violence, which I formed after the mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School."

"We will face — and may at times feel discouraged, heartbroken, even paralyzed by news alerts that can take our emotions in a thousand different directions over the course of a day. But like these young people, we have to keep reaching for what seems beyond our grasp, so that one day we may all hold a nation where everyone belongs and feels safe."