WOLF BLITZER, CNN ANCHOR: In the aftermath of the deadly shootings in Michigan and Pennsylvania, President Clinton has renewed his calls for effective gun-control legislation. CNN White House correspondent Kelly Wallace joins us with details -- Kelly.</s>KELLY WALLACE, CNN WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENT: Well, Wolf, President Clinton says it is time to break what he called the log jam in the U.S. Congress and so he has invited the four lawmakers charged with moving stalled gun legislation in the Congress to the White House next week. At issue: finding a compromise between two different bills. One of those bills is the Senate bill which passed last May and which the White House supports. It requires child-safety locks on guns, bans imports of large capacity ammunition clips, and mandates background checks for gun show sales. Mr. Clinton said that the school shooting in Michigan earlier this week might have been prevented had there been child-safety locks required for guns.</s>WILLIAM J. CLINTON, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: We do need the child trigger locks. That child would be alive today if that gun had, had a child trigger lock on it that the other 6-year-old child fired, and that -- we just need to -- we've got to have it, we've got to have them.</s>WALLACE: Publicly, Republican leaders say they are willing to come up with a compromise with Democrats toughening gun laws, but privately they charge that Democrats are playing politics, trying to block gun-control legislation so they can accuse the Republican-led Congress of doing nothing during congressional campaigns later this year, but Democrats reject that and say Republicans hold the majority and therefore control the agenda. Still, another hurdle to overcome before there will be tougher gun laws on the books is the fact that some Republicans and some Democrats take the view of the National Rifle Association and that is that tougher enforcement of existing laws is the answer, not new laws -- Wolf.</s>BLITZER: Kelly Wallace at the White House, thanks.
After Deadly Shootings in Michigan and Pennsylvania, President Clinton Calls For Tougher Gun-Control Legislation