Illinois Senator Tammy Duckworth won't let the memory of the Highland Park shooting just fade away. Here, she pens a passionate op-ed about creating action from tragedy.
| | I'm Mad as Hell' About the Lack of Federal Action on Gun Safety |
It was a beautiful Fourth of July morning in Illinois. A little humid, sure, but it's what we're used to for summer in the Midwest. Families across Chicagoland lined the streets clad in red, white, and blue for local celebrations—the first of many since before the pandemic in 2019—ready to celebrate life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness in this country. I was gearing up for a parade in Chicago's Hyde Park neighborhood, followed by another in Evanston later that afternoon. Then, the unimaginable happened.
The terror of gun violence tore through Highland Park, Illinois, claiming the lives of seven innocent parade-goers and injuring dozens more. Once again, like in Uvalde, Texas, and Buffalo, New York, someone with an AR-15-style assault weapon stole the lives of our friends, our family, our neighbors.
When I watched one of the videos captured during the parade attack, I recognized the cadence of the bullets. The last time I heard a weapon of that capacity firing that quickly on the Fourth of July was fighting a war in Iraq. Assault weapons like the one used in Highland Park have no business being on our streets. Anyone who has carried a M4 into combat knows the power these kinds of firearms have. These are weapons of war that simply don't belong in the hands of civilians. |
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