Highland Park Mayor Nancy Rotering will testify at a U.S. Senate hearing on gun violence after seven people were killed in a July 4th shooting.
WASHINGTON -- Highland Park Mayor Nancy Rotering pleaded for a federal assault weapons ban during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on gun violence Wednesday."A photo of a teary-eyed toddler clutching a blanket flashed on my phone. Whose child was this? People were hiding in an underground garage wondering why nobody was looking for this missing child. Later we learned that it was two-year-old Aidan McCarthy dried blood on his legs, socks and his Tiger sneaker.
Illinois Senator Tammy Duckworth also spoke, focusing on the dangers of widespread civilian access to military style assault weapons, like the one Robert Crimo III used. The hearing also comes in the wake of a July Fourth shooting at a parade in Highland Park, Illinois, and mass shootings in Buffalo, New York and Uvalde, Texas.
"It's an old topic," Aubrey McCarthy of the March Fourth Movement, said."It's gone on far too long... this is a political issue in DC ... to the majority of Americans it's not. We support this. As of may 22 more than half of the American majority supports this."
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