As officials touted a new gun law passed last month, little was revealed publicly about the shooter's motives or how he obtained the gun.
Monday’s mass shooting at a Highland Park, Ill., Fourth of July parade was among the first large massacres since President Joe Biden signed a new gun bill into law last month.
The bill came following several other mass shootings, most notably at an Uvalde, Texas, elementary school that left 19 students and two teachers dead.“There are people around this country who are poised to do terrible things if we do not intervene and try to change their lives. Some of them we know as children, who need that kind of a helping hand,” Durbin told reporters.
Durbin noted that as of Monday evening, little was revealed publicly about the shooter’s motives, background or how he obtained the weapon used in the shooting that left six people dead and nearly two dozen others wounded. “The gun bill that we passed in the Senate, the bipartisan gun bill addresses many of the aspects of this mass shooters, and some of that involves mental health counseling, trauma counseling. We have to reach out at an early age to turn these lives around,” Durbin added.“I recently signed the first major bipartisan gun reform legislation in almost thirty years into law, which includes actions that will save lives.
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