Highland Park mayor urges support for statewide assault weapons ban
From the Chicago Sun-Times, August 5, 2022
Highland Park Mayor Nancy Rotering urged the Lake County Board to support a statewide ban on assault weapons during a wide-ranging discussion Friday about gun violence and how to curb it.
“I know that restricting access to assault weapons does not stop all gun violence, but banning weapons of war is one commonsense step we can take. It is worth it even if just one life is saved. I am sickened that my town, and you should be sickened that our county, like so many others, has been added to an ongoing list of places where mass shootings have happened — a list that should not even exist,” Rotering said, a little more than a month after the Highland Park parade shootings that left seven dead.
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Lake County Board Chair Sandy Hart responded [to a comment blaming shootings on mental health], “Mental health issues exist around the world. But it is a uniquely American problem to have mass murders.”