San Francisco, Aug 18 (TIWN) San Francisco Mayor London Breed threw her weight behind an anti-gun violence advocacy group in the Bay Area to urge the federal government and lawmakers in Congress to take action to control gun-related crime.

Addressing a rally by the Bay Area chapters of gun safety group, Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America, held in front of the City Hall in downtown San Francisco, Breed blamed in part the gun-related violence to an underground market of weapons and easy access to guns by people, including children.  "We also know that it's too easy to get guns, just more easy to get guns in this country than it is to get books," she told the audience at the rally attended by other city officials, supervisors and California state lawmakers.  Recalling her own childhood in San Francisco where she grew up in public housing, Breed said she saw a person was shot and killed in a neighborhood when she was "just hanging out" with her friends.