Survivors of the Highland Park shooting traveled to Washington this week, where, alongside families of Uvalde victims, they met with lawmakers, including Illinois’s two Democratic senators, Dick Durbin and Tammy Duckworth.
Duckworth spoke at the rally, where she called for a ban on assault weapons and high-capacity magazines.
And she dismissed an argument she said she often hears from gun rights advocates, who insist they need assault weapons to hunt. In addition to Duckworth, rally-goers heard from Reps. Jan Schakowsky, D-Ill., and Brad Schneider, D-Ill., and from survivors of the Fourth of July shooting. Schneider is a resident of Highland Park who represents the district that includes the suburb in Congress.
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