Baltimore Mayor Brandon Scott criticized the attention being given to "suburban white" communities in the wake of mass shootings following Sunday's block party shooting that left two dead and dozens wounded.

"When you think about this country and the history of mass shootings, most of the time when we talk about this, we're talking about it being a school in a rural community or a suburban white community," Scott told CNN. "When it happens in Baltimore or Chicago or D.C., it doesn't get that same attention."

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"These black American lives, children's lives matter, just as anyone else," he added. "We're just asking for all of them to be treated the same."

Any mass shooting or murder that occurs with an illegal gun demands to be treated the same because they should not happen but do, according to Scott.

"We as a country still allow the sanctity of American guns to outweigh the sanctity of Americans' lives, in particular American children's lives, and that is something that we have to change," he said.

"No one is saying that people shouldn't be able to have their rights to have weapons, but those who shouldn't have them — and it shouldn't be easier for a young person to get a gun than for me to go to CVS and buy my allergy medication."

An arrest in Sunday's shooting has yet to be confirmed, and Scott was pushed on whether or not he is in a position to have the trust and relationship of the community of Baltimore to move forward.

Scott disagreed with the notion his government did not have the people's trust and suggested that the city, having come out of the Freddie Gray unrest, is seen by many across the country as one of reform.

"We [are] consistently coaching folks at the behest of the Department of Justice and others from other departments about how to put in those reforms through the work of our now former Police Commissioner [Michael] Harrison and now to Commissioner [Richard] Worley," the mayor said.

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Despite Sunday's violence, Baltimore is witnessing a 20% reduction in homicide and a drop in nonfatal shootings, according to Scott.

"We're going to continue to do that work because, for me, one is too many," he said. "We're going to continue to build those bridges, rebuild bridges, build bridges that were never happening in our community, but this department has changed leaps and bounds."