HIGHLAND PARK, Ill. — After a gunman killed seven people and wounded dozens firing 83 shots in less than a minute from an assault rifle at Highland Park’s Fourth of July parade, U.S. Rep. Brad Schneider, D-Highland Park, quickly pushed a ban on military weapons through the House of Representatives.
As the legislation awaits a vote in the U.S. Senate, Schneider said additional laws are needed to reduce gun violence from mass shootings to suicides after five people were gunned down at a Colorado Springs, Colorado, nightclub and seven at a Chesapeake, Virginia, Walmart in late November.
“You can keep on going,” Schneider said after, recounting the shooting at a Buffalo, New York grocery store and at a school in Uvalde, Texas in May, Highland Park in July and the two last month. “There’s El Paso, Pulse, Sandy Hook, Parkland. Each has become an icon of its own.”
