Hundreds of people, including survivors of the Highland Park Fourth of July shooting, are marching at the U.S. Capitol to pressure legislators to enact a federal ban on assault weapons.
Portrait of Kitty Brandtner at her Winnetka home on Saturday, July 9, 2022. Brandtner is meeting with Congress members on Tuesday for a Wednesday rally she is organizing in Washington D.C. in response to the Highland Park mass shooting and others around the U.S.
“Today, over 100 members of communities that were impacted by mass shootings gathered together with organizers of March Fourth and we met with dozens of lawmakers,” Brandtner said. “I want to thank those lawmakers for taking our meetings, not only to listen to our stories, but on short notice, as I understand that it takes months typically to do that.“It was a very ... emotional day. It was a very important day,” she continued.
Lieberman and Domont, longtime Highland Park residents and best friends, attended the Fourth of July Parade while growing up, and were carrying on the tradition with their families when a gunman opened fire last week, killing seven. “We were about a half a block from gunshots,” Domont said. “Heard it loud and clear, over and over and over again. Pause. Over and over and over again, as we’re running, clutching our children, finding only a Dumpster on the side of a parking lot. Sitting ducks, just waiting, not knowing where gunshots were coming from.”Organizers did not directly respond to submitted questions about whether they met with any Republican members of Congress.
A representative from Toomey’s office told the News-Sun the senator had a “scheduling conflict,” and said March Fourth organizers were informed the meeting would be with staffers beforehand.“We’re not going to stop until we make Highland Park the last community affected by assault weapons,” McCarthy said.
Such answers, however, won’t satisfy the group’s primary goal to prompt the passage of a national assault weapons ban.
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