city was dealing with a mass shooting. it s a sickness. it needs to be addressed. we did what we could. we represented our city s values here and took the necessary action. right. we took the risk of getting sued by the nra and we were and we prevailed. but at the end of the day, we need to see leadership, whether it s at the state level, i would prefer the national level because we re surrounded by several states right. very lenient laws. i didn t tell the full story, you re surrounded by other communities that doesn t have these laws but the state is surrounded by other laws. illinois has more strict gun laws than other places do but it doesn t matter. right. drive an hour in indiana. drive in another direction and they re in missouri. i mean, this country has to get tired of the carnage at some point. the pictures and the what happens to people s bodies when somebody uses a combat weapon isn t making a statement. it s a violent evil act. is there some sense that this
better. they re asking for different. they re saying i don t want law enforcement to respond to a traffic violation. so for instance, in berkley, california, we found 6.5 times more likely black folks getting stopped than white folks often for pretext. berkley said, we re not going to do low level traffic enforcement with armed responders anymore. and berkley has been followed by places like los angeles, philadelphia, pittsburgh, seattle, lancing, michigan, brooklyn center, minnesota and the entire state of virginia. i don t know the thing to do here is focus on how much we trust the folks who are armed and have a badge so much as it is trying to stop responding to things that could turn deadly and shouldn t with non-deadly options. well, you and i both spent a lot of time in philadelphia where the police were in favor of this. great. you know what, get us out of the business of pulling people over for a sticker that expired or a light that s not working in the car. it doesn t end up
to date the state has failed to enact a statewide ban on the sale or possession of assault weapons. end quote. what the city council here was subtly pointing to is that this kind of city wide assault weapons ban doesn t mean anything if there are weak gun laws in surrounding areas. no cops checking you when you come into highland park. even with that band in place, nothing standing in the way of someone who decides to legally purchase an assault weapon somewhere else in the state or even a neighboring state and drive it into highland park to kill people which is exactly what happened yesterday morning just behind where i m standing. we re learning more today about the trauma endured by the survivors of this mass shooting. one woman told the new york times that while she was fleeing the gunshots she saw a toddler trapped under a man who was bleeding and unresponsive. the boy s injuries were minor, just some scrapes and bruises, but he kept asking the woman where his mom and dad were.
families with young kids every year. that s what a fourth of july parade should be. local high school marching band was performing when the shooting began and as of tonight, seven people have died after being shot at that parade. 47 people were wounded. the victims range in age from 88 years old to 8 years old. the alleged shooter is 21 years old currently in custody. authorities say they believe he had been planning this attack for weeks. now, all in all, he fired more than 70 rounds from an ar-style weapon that he purchased legally in the state of illinois. this could be a tape by the way because that s what i always say that someone baugtd one of these ar-style weapons. but the thing about this particular type of weapon is that while it was purchased legally in this state, it was technically illegal to carry that kind of semiautomatic weapon inside the city of highland park where this massacre took place because in 2013 the city of highland park
archive counts 309 mass shootings so far in 2022. those are incidents in which four or more people were shot or killed. more than one a day. actually more than two a day almost. just last weekend president biden signed brand new gun legislation into law. the most consequential and expansive bill of its kind in decade. during the signing ceremony he said the families of the victims of recent shootings told him, for god sake just do something. the president said, quote, today we did. he said lives will be saved. that was on june 25th. the law he signed strengthened background checks for buyers younger than 21. tightened the boyfriend loophole. it set aside funds for mental health resources and state s red flag laws. the law does not ban assault-style weapons. let me tell you, i have been covering these shootings on the ground from the scene for years, and they all have assault-style weapons.