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How Mayors Are Responding To Mass Shootings

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Flags fly over crosses at a makeshift memorial near the scene of a mass shooting at a shopping complex Aug. 6, 2019, in El Paso, Texas. (John Locher/AP)
Flags fly over crosses at a makeshift memorial near the scene of a mass shooting at a shopping complex Aug. 6, 2019, in El Paso, Texas. (John Locher/AP)

On Thursday, Boston Mayor Marty Walsh and 214 mayors from across the country wrote a letter to U.S. Senate leaders urging them to immediately call the body back into session and pass bipartisan gun safety legislation.

We spoke to two mayors about what they learned after their own cities experienced mass shootings.

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Gavin Buckley, mayor of Annapolis, Maryland. He tweets @Gavin4Annapolis.

Bobby Dyer, mayor of Virginia Beach, Virginia. He tweets @BobbyDyerVB.

This segment aired on August 8, 2019.

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