Highland Park Mayor Nancy Rotering calls on Congress to pass assault weapons ban, saying, 'Today is the day to start saving lives.'
Rotering testified about being in the middle of the Independence Day shooting rampage. She graphically detailed the chaos, panic and bloodied bodies lying on the street of "an All-American Midwestern town," telling the committee, "I will be haunted forever."
"Music and cheering were all we could hear as we headed down the street," Rotering testified. "I looked left and waved to my husband in the crowd. What I didn't know at that moment was that just to my right on a one-story rooftop, a 21-year-old was preparing to traumatize my hometown forever with an assault weapon.
"Adults stared back, not comprehending," she said. "But the kids knew immediately this wasn't a drill and they yelled to everybody, 'run, hide.' They knew what was happening.", who were at the parade with their 2-year-old son, Aiden. She said good Samaritans found the boy under his father's body. "Local government cannot do this alone," Rotering said. "Congress must take action. You must federally ban assault weapons and large capacity magazines. Today is the day to save lives."
Republican Sens. Ted Cruz and John Cornyn, both of Texas, agreed with Grassley, saying they support tougher laws that go after the perpetrators of the violence instead of the guns, which Cornyn described as "inanimate objects."in which three people were killed before an armed good Samaritan shot and killed the suspect who was firing an AR-15-style weapon.
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