After a gunman fired dozens of rounds into a crowd at a Fourth of July parade, killing seven people and injuring at least 48 others, the mayor of Highland Park, Illinois described the mass violence to members of Congress and demanded action to combat the proliferation of high-powered firearms.
In graphic testimony to the Senate Judiciary Committee on 20 July, Mayor Nancy Rotering described the injuries among several of the victims and how their families described what they witnessed that day – emotional and physical agony, potentially life-long injuries among those who survived, and the “effect that this ammunition, with this velocity, has when hitting a human head.”
