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Chicago Sun-Times
Chicago Sun-Times
National
Mitchell Armentrout

Day after mass shooting, VP Kamala Harris visits Highland Park and Chicago, calls for assault weapons ban ‘to end this horror’

Vice President Kamala Harris speaks at a news conference on Central Avenue near Green Bay Road in Highland Park on Tuesday evening. (Ashlee Rezin/Sun-Times)

Vice President Kamala Harris called for tighter gun restrictions, including a nationwide ban on assault weapons, “to end this horror” during a Chicago appearance Tuesday evening, a day after a gunman killed seven and wounded dozens more at a July Fourth parade in Highland Park. 

Harris’ trip to the city to speak at an annual meeting of the National Education Association was announced three days before America’s latest mass-casualty horror hit the North Shore suburb. 

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