KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) – Kansas City Mayor Sly James is calling for gun reform after six people died and 22 were wounded in the first several days of August.

The Kansas City Star reports that James expressed frustration with the city’s gun violence in a press conference Monday with Police Chief Rick Smith.

This little girl was in a car tonight with her mother and another woman; officers comforted her after both women were shot tonight near 43rd and Bellefontaine. Her mother has life threatening injuries. Someone saw something #474-TIPS pic.twitter.com/xBo2H7UiPw

— Kansas City Police (@kcpolice) August 3, 2018

The 74 homicides so far put Kansas City on pace for about 120 killings this year. The projection is under the 150 people killed in 2017, which was the city’s most violent year since the early 1990s.

James says he’s pressed lawmakers for gun reform many times, but there’s no progress because of political ideology. He says he’s considering making another attempt at passing local gun legislation, even though it would be pre-empted by state law and possibly antagonize rural legislators.