families of tucson and blacksburg and countless other communities with gun violence, they deserve a simple vote. >> reporter: but after a massive lobbying effort by the national rifle association, the proposal was defeated. >> the amendment is not agreed to. >> there were no co-hernt arguments as to why we couldn't do this. it came down follow ticks. >> reporter: rand paul condemned violence in charlston but argued more gun control isn't the answer. >> there is something terribly wrong o but it isn't going to be fixed by your government. >> reporter: jim acosta, cnn. >> let's talk more about this church. tonight it is a sober, somber feeling. when you think about what happened inside in building and the impact of this attack while it's whorrific under my circumstances, it is magnified by where it happened. cnn's tom foremanan explains. >> reporter: located less than a mile from charlston's historic slave market and established in 1816 deep in the slavery years, emanuel has always been more than a place of worship. as the oldest africa methodist episcopal church in the south, it is a living

blacksburg newtown, they deserve a simple vote. >> reporter: at a massive lobbying effort by the nationalfeated. >> the amendment is not agreed to. >> there were no coherent arguments as to why we wouldn't do this. it came down to politics. rand paul condemned the violence in charleston but argued more gun control isn't the answer. >> there's something terribly wrong, but it isn't going to be fixed by your government. >> reporter: the president has not attempted gun control in contingencies ever since that push and the white house said the president is not likely to try for it again during his remaining time in office. >> jim acosta thanks so much. >>> that's it for "the lead" on this grim day. i tinge you over to wolf blitzer in "the situation room." thank you for watching. \s >>> happening now, captured. the alleged gunman is now in custody, arrested 250 miles away from are the charleston south carolina crime scene after a citizen's tip. the suspect, a 21-year-old whiteman with a police record and reputation as quiet and strange. we're hearing from some who knew him. the motive -- the g

. >> i will go back and certainly go and read blacksburg. i recall this is generally and any cases, basic liberty, right to be married at a rate that extends only to opposite sex couples. i am surprised if the court wrote that but if it did, you can immediately called that page to mind. i doubt it is there. >> apologize for not having the page right. >> the majority said the limitation of marriage to opposite sex barrel-- what we are talking about is -- >> it is a fundamental right to marry. >> to inspired an opinion. >> context matters. >> it was clearly decided. >> very emotional issues. this court never assumed with the democratic process the states, generally michigan's his typically have no animus and doesn't intend to take away dignity from anyone, we respect all parents and of they love their children but this court taking this important issue away from the people will have dramatic impact on the democratic process and we ask that you of term. >> three minutes remaining. >> the idea is that the ideas of marriage will change different

the families of oak creek and tucson and blacksburg and the countless other communities ripped open byun violence they deserve a simple vote. >> reporter: but after a massive lobbying effort by the national rifle association, the bipartisan proposal was defeated. >> the amendment is not agreed to. >> there were no coherent arguments as to why we wouldn't do this. it came down to politics. >> reporter: republican senator and presidential candidate rand paul condemned the violence in charleston but argued more gun control isn't the answer. >> there's something terribly wrong but it isn't going to be fixed by your government. >> reporter: jim acosta, cnn. >>> the church massacre in charleston raises a lot of issues about the state of race relations in the u.s. joining me in the studio, once again is ken drarks an associate professor of politics at ogle thorpe university here in atlanta. thank you for staying with us another hour. there's a lot of talk about what this was an attack on. it was an attack on the black church. also the minister represented politics was a leader in the state, a