Less than 36 hours after a shooter opened fire at the Fourth of July parade in Highland Park, killing seven, Vice President Kamala Harris arrived in the north suburb calling for federal action on assault weapons.
Vice President Kamala Harris visits the Central Avenue crime scene on July 5, 2022, the day after a mass shooting at the Fourth of July parade in Highland Park.killing seven people
“You know that you have a whole nation that cares deeply about you, and stands with you. This is an incredibly tight community. I know that,” Harris said. “And this person will be brought to justice, but it’s not going to undo what happened. And we’re here for you and we stand with you.” Vice President Kamala Harris walks beside Highland Park mayor Nancy Rotering at the corner of Green Bay and Central in Highland Park on July 5, 2022, a day after a mass shooting that resulted in 7 dead and more than 30 injured at a 4th of July parade in Highland Park.
In addition, Bailey also attempted to tie the Highland Park parade shooting to the shooting of a 10-year-old boy over the holiday weekend on Chicago’s South Side, even though Highland Park is an affluent suburb 30 miles north of Chicago. Recent attempts to ban or restrict the sale and possession of assault weapons in Illinois have faltered. Proposals introduced in both the state House and Senate in the years since that would have banned assault weapons haven’t even gotten a committee vote.
“We’re taking small bites of the apple, and we need to take bigger bites of the apple, and now is the time to do it with an assault weapons ban and high-capacity magazine ban,” she said.Resistance to stricter gun regulations among Democrats has traditionally come from Downstate members, and Hirschauer said that “it’s tough to know” how Monday’s events will affect that dynamic.
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