. >> please welcome the superintendent, jodie weiss. [ applause ] >> last year, city officials said theyall they could to keep kids like danny from becoming victims in the first place. the then head of the chicago police department had big hopes for getting firearms off the streets. >> this is a great day. we've taken in 2,972 weapons across the city. >> on hand to mark the moment were two parents who lost their son to gun violence. annette and ron holt, himself a policeman. >> but we can make a difference. we stand together to try and bring peace to our streets and get these weapons out of the hands of our children. >> i want to talk to you about the guns. i lived in the city 14 years. >> right. >> then and now, i wouldn't have any idea how to get a gun. yet you've got 12, 13, 14, 15-year-old kids can get them like that. how is that? >> it is a huge problem. to put it in perspective, 2006, 2007, 2008, we recovered on average 13,000 weapons a year. los angeles and new york combined. they recovered around 12,000 weapons. then you throw in the fact we have the largest gang population, and