back to you joie. >> america tonight correspondent christoph putzel. thanks very much, christoph. >> even before last night's shooting eight other children all under eight years old were victims of gun violence in the past seven weeks. the epidemic of gun violence what if anything could be done to protect the children? leer to talk about it is congresswoman kelly, the author and founder of the los angeles urban policy round table, and jitu brown, thank you all for being here. congresswoman i'd like to start with you. you're not from the particular area where these latest shootings took place bus you've certainly seen violence in your district, certainly related to the growing emotion we've seen, what is going on and why can't it be stopped? >> i don't know that there is one reason it's going on or one solution to so solve the proble. we talk about lack of reasonable gun excavate legislation some people not being involved, i think it's multifaceted and it's going otake a number of solutions to solve the issue. >> have you seen a ground swell of the commu