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Gun violence awareness campaign Wear Orange is honoring Hadiya Pendleton 10 years after her Kenwood, Chicago shooting death.
>> kimberly, thank you for being here. you talked about chicago and there is a lot of folks from chicago here tonight. i want you to meet or everybody to meet cleo pendleton. she's sitting over there. i think i said it earlier, 55 shootings in chicago in just the past seven days. cleo pendleton, her daughter was shot to death a week after your inauguration, 15 years old, honor student and you being tonight honors her. thank you for being here. what is your question to the president? >> thank you for making it more difficult for guns to get in the hands of those who shouldn't have them. thank y...
Million sales to prohibited purchasers, convicted felons, domestic abusers, the dangerously mentally ill, the people we all agree shouldn't have guns. the problem is the world has changed since the original brady law was implemented and now there are people every day across this country selling guns as commercial enterprises at gun shows and online without brady background checks. so what the president's executive actions have done today is they have expanded the very sharp-toothed brady law to make it even more effective by expanding brady background checks to everyone who is actually engaged...
We just formed, chicago voices for change, that is working alongside newtown and that committee so that we can get to washington and do our lobbying. in chicago, there's definitely awareness here. we're having various meetings. it's a lot happening. i do believe that there is an awareness. is there more that can be done? yes. are we done? no. it's all a work in progress. i'm looking forward to the change that's sure to come. >> cleo, thank you for your time. kim, thank you so much. congressman, a big thanks to all of you. we're going to continue talking about this on this broadcast and on this...
Safer. such as the background check as well as the bill that is currently on the table that has my daughter's name in it. would be almost easily passed. given the statistics that are out there that show you know a lot of folks in favor of these things. >> nate and cleo, as we speak to you, we want to let you and the audience know, that a white house press briefing is taking place and the press secretary has said the first lady of the united states will head to chicago on wednesday of next week to try to encourage congress to pass stricter gen control laws. i nate, i pose to you the issue of ch...