CHICAGO Mayor Richard M. Daley has asked Chicago residents to work to rid guns from their communities and support a ban on automatic weapons.
Daley made the tape-recorded statements Saturday night during a town hall meeting on Chicago’s recent uptick in gun violence. The meeting was sponsored and simulcast by the CBS affiliate WBBM-TV in Chicago and WBBM radio 780-AM.
Meeting participants discussed violence, guns, gangs, police, poverty, the importance of family and education.
Among those attending were Chicago aldermen and police officer, federal agents, child psychiatrists, church and school leaders and the parents of children who died from gun violence.
Chicago saw more than 80 homicides from January through April.
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