VP Kamala Harris visits Highland Park following shooting and calls for federal ban on assault weapon

[Omaha Steve]

Source: Chicago Tribune

By Jeremy Gorner, Adriana Pérez and Dan Petrella

Less than 36 hours after a shooter opened fire at the Fourth of July parade in Highland Park, killing seven people, Vice President Kamala Harris arrived in the north suburb Tuesday evening calling for federal action on assault weapons.

“We’ve got to be smarter as a country in terms of who has access to what, in particular assault weapons,” said Harris, who was joined by Highland Park Mayor Nancy Rotering and other Democratic politicians. “And we’ve got to take this stuff seriously. The whole nation should understand and have a level of empathy to understand that this could happen anywhere in any peace-loving community. And we should stand together and speak out about why it’s got to stop.”

Earlier in the day, Harris called for reinstituting a national assault weapon ban.

“We have more to do. We have more to do. Congress needs to have the courage to act and renew the assault weapons ban,” Harris told a group of educators at the National Education Association conference at McCormick Place in Chicago. “We need reasonable gun safety laws. And we need to have Congress stop protecting those gun manufacturers with the liability shield. Repeal it. Repeal it.”



Vice President Kamala Harris visits the Central Avenue crime scene on July 5, 2022, the day after a mass shooting at the Fourth of July parade in Highland Park. (Brian Cassella / Chicago Tribune)

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FULL title Vice President Kamala Harris visits Highland Park following shooting and calls for federal ban on assault weapons.

[SheltieLover]

1. Assault rifles do not belong on our streets.

[bronxiteforever]

5. +100 Absolutely

[SheltieLover]

6. We should not even need to have this conversation

[InAbLuEsTaTe]

2. Now we're talkin... good on Kamala. Now Congress, let's do... force a vote.

Let the Rethugs declare themselves as the murderous accomplices that they are.

[Achilleaze]

3. Thank you, VP Harris

[ProudMNDemocrat]

4. In the hands of Law Enforcement at the Local, State, and Federal levels....YES..

There is NO need for Military grade civilian versions of the M-16 or higher powered weapons for the general public.

When I see photos of men with AR-15s slung over their backs or sides, the first thing that comes to mind is "What are these people trying to prove?"

That they are wealthy enough to afford all the accessories that go with their "BIG BOY GUNS" while they complain about the prices of food, rent, and gas for their over sized pickups? There is something psychological going on here as they over compensate for their overall smallness.

[Justice matters.]

11. Most of them (if not all of them) play virtual 3D war games online or on today's computers.

I bet they fantasized owning the real stuff since years while growing up.

Not ALL players, just the fringe of coward bullies (and they exist).

[radicalleft]

7. Well that will get the RW nutjobs to the Polls in November

[MrsCoffee]

12. Fuck them. Women alone will show up in bigger numbers than those cowards this year.

Bring back the ban.

Thank you VP Harris!

[RainCaster]

8. Don't take their "precious", just require insurance

Make liability insurance mandatory for every firearm in the country. Let the industry set the price. The penalty for not having a policy must be high, adding a mandatory 20 year felony to whatever crimes that gun owner has committed. This way the victims families have a financial nestegg to draw upon when they lose a loved one.

[EX500rider]

14. Liability insurance for firearms will only cover accidents not criminal Acts

[The Mouth]

16. Gun owners need to be responsible for where *EVERY* bullet goes

even the ones that go through bad guys.

[RainCaster]

17. That's not good enough

If I hurt someone while speeding, insurance still pays out for my victims.

[EX500rider]

18. And yet if you intentionally use your car to kill people it will not.

[McKim]

9. Glad She is Out Front!

Great to see our VP out front representing us. Why have they been hiding her? I know she is busy with a full schedule, but never ever covered. I want women out front!

[Botany]

10. You can see the pain on her face

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[bello]

13. What kind of gun was used?

All of the press that I have seen said that Crimo used a “high powered rifle.”

But what kind of high powered rifle? From the rate of fire, I’d bet good money that it was an AR-15 clone of some sort. But LEOs and the media seem to avoid that term or anything like it as if they are wanting to suppress public reaction. Nah, that couldn’t be.

[samsingh]

15. these attacks will continue until the gop is driven to a clear minority status

nothing substantive can be done until then.

[betsuni]

19. K&R