it's clearly painful. yeah, it's painful, but i know if i don't speak i will sit around and cry and crying doesn't do anything. >> the man charged with her murder was released from jail just months after being arrested for illegal gun possession. >> i want to thank you on behalf of everybody in the city of chicago for taking your personal pain and trying to make it into a public good and make us better. i know how painful it is. >> emmanuel mccarthy continued to push for stronger gun legislation, despite a law that made it illegal to conceal pistols even in chicago. >> the weak link in the system is our gun laws. it's life or death. the laws we have on the books do not actually act as the deterrent they are intended to do. so we say if you have a gun and use it illegally, you get the same kind of minimum for shoplifting.