speaking out on this issues when it's clearly painful. and it's painful but i know if i don't speak, i'll sit around and cry and crying doesn't do anything. >> reporter: the man charge with hadiya's murder was released from jail just months after being arrested for illegal gun possession. >> i want to thank you for 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. and i know how painful it is. >> reporter: emanuel and mccarthy continue to push for tougher gun legislation despite a new state law that made it legal to carry pistols even in chicago. >> the weak link in our 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 that if you have a gun and use it illegally, you get the same kind of minimum for