announces it will stop selling handguns and certain ammunition in the wake of the odessa, texa shooting. chicago s democratic mayor saying the gun violence problem is the result of republican lai state. we are tracking both those threads for us tonight. we have heard so much about this latest mass shooting in texas, but this weekend in chicago seven people were kille and 34 wounded in 29 separate incidents in just one weekend. it got the attention of texas senator ted cruz and he s in a heated dispute with the city s democratic mayor. as pressure mounts on congress to pass some form of gun-control republican crew senator ted cruz said it doesn work look at chicago disarming lie abiding citizens is not the answer the tweet prompted a swift response from chicago s mayor who fired back that 60 percent of illegal firearms recovered in chicago come from outside illinois. mostly from states dominated by
gun control debate reigniting after walmart announces it will stop selling handguns and certain ammunition in the wake of the shooting. chicago s democratic mayor saying that city s gun violence problem is in a republican-led state. kristin fisher tracking those threats. reporter: we heard about the latest mass shooting in texas but in chicago twee 7 people were killed and 34 wounded in 29 separate incidents in one weekend. it got the attention of ted cruz who is in a heated dispute with the democratic mayor. as pressure mounts on congress to pass a form of gun-control ted cruz said it doesn t work. look at chicago, disturbing law-abiding citizens is not the answer. this profit a quick response from chicago s mayor who fired
a daily basis new additional solutions that we will be working to offer up. some by the governor, some by the executive branch, some by the legislature. but these will be new and different solutions that will work to deescalate gun violence in texas. does it increase the sense of urgency to have two incidents like this in a month? absolutely. reporter: so yasmine, you hear a lot of talk about solutions there but nothing specific. it s worth pointing out that the texas legislature only meets every other year. the governor has so far resisted calling them back to deal with this gun violence problem here in the state of texas in a more aggressive manner. we ll see if the commission recommends he do anything differently on that front. there s a them on a lack of specificity when it comes to changes in gun legislation, it seems. garrett haake, appreciate it. and i ll bring in a former senior adviser to president
probably not. realistically speaking. the united states has faced an intense and lethal gun violence problem for years and years and years now. and the one of the shocking pieces about the deaths that we have seen over the last week is that they are part of a pattern that has been in place for quite sometime. and i find it based on my reporting unlikely that the persistence of this pattern to result in a change in how senate republicans think about gun laws. another thing to tell you from my reporting over the past reporting however is officials with the nra are concerned that something significant may happen. they were scheduled to have a board meeting in mid-september in alaska but i obtained a letter that one of their senior officials september
could be some kind of national background check law put into place that we don t currently have. then it was only a matter of about 72 hours or so and he seemed to shift completely. he started talking about reinstitutionalizing mentally ill people, that that was going to be the solution to the gun violence problem in america, most which has nothing to do with mentally ill people unless we set aside the fact that guns kill tens of thousands of people through suicide which is a big problem as well. so i just have my doubts that unless we see this issue being escalated on a regular basis that it won t regress to where it was before. that s what you re doing and i wonder as you listen to josh talk about that how much you pay attention to the president, how much of what he s saying, what he backs, what a might favor a barometer of where the policy conversation is. who are you looking for guidance from on that? it s certainly not the president. i don t think that i think the president