This is a monumental weekend in Indianapolis.
The U.S. Conference of Mayors is expected to bring more than 200,000 people, including world and national leaders and some very influential entertainers.
The Dalai Lama will speak at the State Fairgrounds Saturday, then team up with Lady Gaga for a speech Sunday at the conference. Presumptive Democratic Presidential nominee Hillary Clinton will also speak at the conference, along with Orlando Mayor Buddy Dyer.
There are several concerts scheduled in the city, including Justin Bieber, Darius Rucker and Bob Dylan.
Indianapolis Mayor Joe Hogsett welcomed the mayors to the crossroads of Indiana Friday.
"We are sitting in the nation's busiest intersection of ideas," Hogsett said.
More than 200 mayors from all across the country, representing over a million Americans, have converged on Indianapolis to express frustration over inaction in Washington on the issue of guns.
"It is embarrassing to see how time after time lives are taken senselessly while the world watches us do nothing," Baltimore Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake stated.
Gary Mayor Karen Freeman-Wilson, while expressing remorse about the tragedy in Orlando, explained how deaths are happening in cities across America every day.
"If you take the body count, it is just as massive. What we have to do is place as much attention on those one-at-a-time deaths as we do on the multiple or larger instances," Freeman-Wilson explained.
Carmel Mayor Jim Brainard looked at the bigger picture and he was not alone.
"The right to bear arms does not extend to terrorists. It doesn't extend to a watch list of people who are not citizens of the United States. The constitution is for Americans, not for those who visit and not for those who may be here to harm us," he said.
"Congress the other day. They wouldn't even have a discussion on the floor of the house. I am just going to speak for myself. That is unheard of," New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu lamented.
"As mayors, we cannot understand gridlock, because it is not permissible. There is no way I can tell someone that because of a political difference I cannot be picking up their trash today but that is the norm in Congress," Rawlings-Blake continued.
A lot has been made about personalities attending this event, but it's really about issues.