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getting support to pass an assault weapons ban through congress. this, after a spate of recent deadly shootings across the u.s. in virginia, where a walmart employee shot and killed six co-workers before killing himself last tuesday, the chesapeake city council will hold a special meeting on monday to confirm an emergency declaration to help fund recovery efforts. the mayor will lead a candle light vigil for the victims after the meeting. and despite the recent shootings, one democratic senator says his party doesn't have enough votes to pass an assault weapons ban. >> if you pass an assault weapons ban, you are not going to magically eliminate mass shootings in this country, but it is true that that ar-15 or ar-15 style weapon is generally the choice of mass shooters. and what you saw in 1994, when we passed an assault weapons ban was a dramatic decline in mass shootings that remained in place for a decade until the