Sean Casten and Robyn Kelly have been pushing gun control bills as President Joe Biden addressed the NIU and Parkland school shooting anniversaries.
CHICAGO -- Bells tolled Monday afternoon for the victims of killed at Northern Illinois University on Valentine's Day 2008, when a member of campus gunned down five people and injured 17 more.
"We cannot allow ourselves to become desensitized to this kind of violence," said Kelly."It doesn't have to be this way." The anniversaries have been arriving in their grimness as lawmakers and gun control advocates gathered Monday via Zoom, due to the pandemic, to back federal legislation to combat interstate gun sales.
U.S. Reps. Casten and Kelly have bills in front of Congress that would empower federal authorities to crack down. President Joe Biden noted the anniversaries in a statement Monday.
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