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Chicago Sun-Times
Chicago Sun-Times
National
Tina Sfondeles

State legislators urged to outlaw assault weapons: ‘If we don’t do something about this, shame on us’

Conttina Patterson, who survived a Halloween mass shooting on the West Side, testifies Monday in Chicago before the Illinois House Judiciary Committee. (Anthony Vazquez/Sun-Times)

Lauren Bennett spoke of the persistent fear that she would die from wounds she suffered in the Highland Park Fourth of July shooting — and the physical scars that remain on her bullet-ridden body.

Conttina Patterson sat with crutches nearby — having lived through an East Garfield Park mass shooting on Halloween that left her with a bullet hole so large it broke a bone.

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