CHICAGO — Just 16 days after a man wielding an AR-15-style rifle allegedly killed seven people and injured more than 40 at a Fourth of July parade in the Chicago suburb of Highland Park, the town's mayor pleaded with Congress to pass a federal assault weapons ban, saying, 'today is the day to start saving lives.'
Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images, FILECHICAGO — Just 16 days after a man wielding an AR-15-style rifle allegedly killed seven people and injured more than 40 at a Fourth of July parade in the Chicago suburb of Highland Park, the town's mayor pleaded with Congress to pass a federal assault weapons ban, saying,"today is the day to start saving lives."
She began her statement by describing a"perfect summer day" with 3,000 people lining the parade route, waving American flags and cheering the marching bands and colorful floats of her city's first post-pandemic Fourth of July Parade in two years. She said she and her colleagues immediately started an emergency evacuation, screaming at paradegoers to run, repeatedly shouting,"shooter."
"When the shooting stopped, Cassie returned to find her mother lifeless," said Rotering, as a group of Highland Park residents attending the hearing sat behind her."Highland Park had the uniquely American experience of a Fourth of July parade turned into what had now become a uniquely American experience of a mass shooting," Rotering said.
"These bans would be ineffective and not consistent with the right to self-defense," said Sen. Charles Grassley, R-Iowa."We also know restrictive gun control will hurt vulnerable communities that need to defend themselves against the horrible spike in violence."
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