we have to look harder as a country on particular assault weapons and we have to take it seriously. understand this can happen anywhere. tough to hear there, but vice president kamala harris saying we have to be smarter as a country and restrict access to the kind of weapon used in highland park on the fourth of july. that statement made during a visit by the vice president to the town in illinois last night. joining us now, ross and paul. both are lake county board members representing districts that cover highland park and both were at the parade on monday. gentlemen, thank you both for being with us. mr. perek i ll start with you. you were there and saw what happened. it s a shock to any community when there is gun violence, but particularly when there s no violent crime to speak of, how is the community reacting?
community wants the answers, absolutely, but as our state s attorney eric rhinehart said last night when he announced the charges, we ve had an assault weapons ban in this country before for ten years, and it reduced the number of these incidents, and so in some ways the details matter and some ways they don t. these weapons should not be so readily available. lake county board members ross perek. thanks for being on the show today. we will be following this story all day today. also what s happening in georgia, going to be following that as well. new subpoenas. new subpoenas coming out. willie, yesterday, a big day in the morning joe family. i don t know if you know it or not. yeah. it was. the man with nine horses. yeah. had a big birthday. can t afford ten. put it up. he can t have ten. celebrating sorry, steve.