him. the parade highland park as well attended by families, with young kids every year. that s would ve fourth of july parade should. be the local high school marching band was performing when the shooting began. absent night seven people have died after being shot at the parade. 47 people were wounded. the victims range in age from 88 years old till eight years old. the alleged shooter is 21 years old. he is currently in custody. authorities say they believe he s been planning the attack for weeks. 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 that s what i always say. that someone bought 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 semi automatic weapon inside the city of highland park, where this massacre took place. because in 201
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 banned assault weapons from
it was supposed to be a celebration in a city where the declaration of independence was signed. this is how the mayor of philadelphia describes what happened instead. laid back chill day. weather was beautiful. concert was beautiful. but we live in america and we have the second amendment and we have the supreme court of the united states telling everybody they can carry a gun wherever they want, god city. we have to come to grips with what this country is about right now. in addition to that incident in philadelphia, more than a dozen mass shootings took place across the country during this holiday weekend alone. including the catastrophe in highland park yesterday that left seven people dead. even before that attack, at least 57 people were shot in the chicago area this weekend, 9 of them died. when you take the six months and five days of the year that have gone by in 2022, gun violence
together, have worked unbelievable concert. and they caught the guy. i mean, it was an afternoon of absolute fear and panic. people were hiding under this gas station, under that store and houses. they caught him. people understand all politics is local. this city did the right thing about assault rifles ban. in 2013 we banned them. yet this still happened. right. so we need to talk about the fact that patchwork legislation isn t going to work when you re talking about weapons of war and it s time for a national ban. we had one. it diminished the number of mass shootings for several years then it expired and here we are. to your point, this is all too frequent. i heard from so many mayors who said to me, oh, yeah. let me give you the handbook on what mayors are supposed to do. you think about this now. it s not an abstract, something that might not happen. exactly. the u.s. conference of mayors literally had a seminar attended by hundreds of mayors and the middle of that se