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Yesterday that we need significant action, we need it now. that we need to put the politics aside. that all of us, as elected officials, local, state, and federal, all have a responsibility to the people of america to take action. we've been through this, as again the president mentioned, a number of different times. i deal with it on a daily basis. and my fellow mayors, mayors like mayor bloomberg and mayor emanuel in chicago or mayor blake in baltimore, kasim reed in atlanta. all of us deal with an daily onslaught of violence. this is what this is about. it's about violence. >> but, mayor, w...

He did to his wife. how do you explain the fact that he was still able after all of that to go out and apparently legally purchase an assault-type weapon and other guns? >> well, i'll tell you, wolf, i mean, first and foremost, it breaks my heart every time we have to sit here like this and talk about this particular tragic incident and how the shooter came upon getting the gun. what fell through the cracks. what kind of loopholes or work arounds exist in current federal law. keep in mind that there are literally thousands upon thousands of firearms transactions that occur every month. million...

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The four years that followed, he went ahead and -- each year he bought a weapon. he bought a gun. including an assault-type weapon, eventually killing all of these people at this small church in texas. and he apparently didn't have any problems. there were no records of his conviction in the u.s. air force. that's a problem, isn't it? >> yeah, that's very troubling. and that to me is the most troubling part about what happened with the air force, is that without a doubt what he was convicted of, both the severity of it and the fact it was domestic violence, he was required under 18 us c-sectio...

Horrific crime was identified as the bushmaster ar 15 assault type weapon it had high capacity magazines and in addition the subject had a glock 10 millimeter all weapons had multiple magazines and additional ammunition. >> after killing the heroic principal and four others all women who tried to top them or shield the children in their care. when the tiny victims in the classroom lanza used the assault weapon to kill every child within range of his rage. >> the bushmaster was used as it was explained yesterday in the school in its entirety and the hand gun was used to. >> then he heard the vi...