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Shouldn't have their hands on a gun if you close the gun show loophole and i also voted for a lock to be sold with guns so that you have a trigger lock, $5 you can have a trigger lock and that actually might have prevented this if the mother had had trigger locks on the guns. >> chris: we got about a minute left. >> she would have been able to perhaps prevent this. >> what do you think of wayne lapierre's offer? >> it is pretty empty. that is the only answer is to put more guns in schools? look, we already have armed officers in many schools in washington, d.c. we have armed officers in school...

Shouldn't have their hands on a gun if you close the gun show loophole and i also voted for a lock to be sold with guns so that you have a trigger lock, $5 you can have a trigger lock and that actually might have prevented this if the mother had had trigger locks on the guns. >> chris: we got about a minute left. >> she would have been able to perhaps prevent this. >> what do you think of wayne lapierre's offer? >> it is pretty empty. that is the only answer is to put more guns in schools? look, we already have armed officers in many schools in washington, d.c. we have armed officers in school...

From facing any liability the way cigarettemakers do. they are exempted from such liability. there are other ideas that have been put on the table like forcing manufacturers to add trigger locks, forcing them to add mechanisms that would allow a stolen gun not to be able to be fired. there are a few practical things that can be done. but what i hope the task force does is keep talking about this issue because as sad as it is, to your last question, the risk is over the course of a month that a task force is meeting, the jake tappers of the world move on to the next story and we're not talking ...

Transported must be patrol carren down and -- broken down and only one gun in the house ready for fired. the rest must be broken down or have trigger locks and can only be in the inside, not in the yard, cannot in the yard or the porch. the net effect is to make it too expensive and discourages the practice of owning guns. >> why is this chicago's fight? >> primary because gun violence here is so bad. there have been 209 deaths by gun related violence so far this year. it's twice as much as l.a., three times the rate of new york city itself, coupled with the fact some have been caught on camer...

It restricts gun owners to have only one gun in the house ready to be fired. the rest need to be broken down or fitted with trigger locks. they're only legal in the residence, not on the porch. the yard or even the garage. the n.r.a. says they put so many hoops, so many restrictions in the path to lawful gun ownership it discourages the practice, jon. >> why is this chicago's fight? >> mostly because they have so many problems with gun violence out here. so far this year, 200 people have -- 209 people have been killed in shootings. particularly in the badlands around the south side. on top of ...