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A group of more than 850 mayors are releasing a new ad featuring hi dhadiya pendleton and her mom. >> congress is debating how to fix our gun laws. they can start with background checks for all gun sales. telecon gres to support common sense reforms so no more innocent children are killed. >> meanwhile, two super pacs throwing their support, a/k/a money behind candidates in favor of gun control. joining me now is mark glaze, director of mayors against illegal guns. it is good to have you here and your coalition release the the ad featuring hadiya pendant he will son and saying more than 1,900 ...

Have been urged to join this group by school leaders, school teachers and administrators. the school described this conversation as a heart-to-heart talk between the president, who does know these streets, knows this area. his home is only two miles away from this high school. to talk to these young men about what it's like to grow up in an environment like this, in a tough neighborhood, in a tough city. and i think that that is exactly why he's not here right now. i think this conversation is going on longer than anticipated, and the white house really said this was his main focus while he wa...

There are at least 300 million guns in the country and the nra is largely responsible for that. so it's true you're not going to stop everything, but this is what you do with laws. you close the loopholes you can. by doing that you can make an enormous difference. all these mass shootings are mass because of a high-capacity magazine and assault weapon involved. the tucson shooting probably did happen because loughner's records were not the the criminal background check data base and should have been. >> mark glaze, thank you. david, i've got to run but thank you as always. we appreciate you be...

Background checks at gun shows? >> if you're a dealer, that's already the law. >> that's not my question. i'm not trying to play games here. but if you could, just answer my question. >> senator, i do not believe the way the law is working now unfortunately, that it does any good to extend the law to private sales between hobbyists and collectors. >> with all due respect, that was not the question i asked. nor did you answer it. >> but i think it is the answer. >> mark glaze, if we can't get it done on background checks where the polling data i see suggests seven in ten americans are supportiv...

So there is just so much demagoguery and hypocrisy on that side that keeps the flame going, we have to just keep trying to -- like the op-ed you just quote, have to keep dousing those flames to try to get some of these modest limitations. >> and the epidemic continues. meanwhile gun violence continues day in and day out. just yesterday 15-year-old hadia pendelton shot in a park not far from her high school. she was in washington with her high school band where she performed in the inaugural heritage music festival. mark glaze, another criticism i hear from those that don't want any change to g...