protection to defy those orders and went in. that s according to two senior federal law enforcement officials. but by that point, it had been so long, some of the families say their wounded kids bled out. leaving them forever asking the question, what if they went in sooner? was there still time? the chief was supposed to be sworn in to the city council today a. position he was just elected to hold. uvalde s mayor says he is free to assume his position on the council but that the ceremony to welcome him is postponed. joining me is nbc news koempt liz mclaughlin and nbc news tom winters. the funerals, liz, are starting today. what do we know? reporter: katy, exactly one week at 11 minutes ago, police finally confronted that gunman and stopped the massacre at robb elementary. an event that will forever change this community. so now the focus is really on honoring and remembering those 21 lives lost. the visitation started yesterday for those two girls who mentioned funerals
there is nothing i see where a law current or some of the proposed legislation coming in, katy, could have stopped this, outside of if you want to tackle the gun component of this issue, will you have to look at different types of laws. they have that thought legally, bought legally, bought legally, bought legally. we will talk more about legislation right now. on capitol hill, liz mclaughlin, thank you very much. the house judiciary committee will hold an emergency hearing later this week to mark a series of gun prevention bills. the mass shootings in uvalde and buffalo have given new urgency to a package of bills referred to as the protecting our kids act by democrats. details of the ominous gun bills were first reported by punch bowl news, it includes raising the purchase age from 18 to 21, imposing a new federal ban on high capacity magazines,
people realize that we ve got to do more than this. we can t allow this to continue. so i think there s a lot more we can do in legislation. texas is a gun culture state, unfortunately. it s gone in my view way to the extreme of allowing guns. open carry, conceal carry, campus carry. there were bills that passed. no gun prevention bills, but bills that passed that allowed guns in churches for the first time, bills that allow more people in schools even to carry guns, school marshals. bills that make it easier for people to obtain guns. so this is this is not this is not acceptable. and i think we need to hold people to account for not doing our job to make sure that we do everything that we can. i just heard that some people, as you know, blame mental health