Yesterday while participating in the Highland Park 4th of July parade, my family and I — and the entire Highland Park community — experienced the trauma of what far too many across the country are experiencing: the paralyzing terror of gun violence.
Like so many other families, I was with my husband, our three children, and our grandchildren on what was to be a day of festivities and a beloved community event. Instead, we were running for safety, desperately praying that no one would die from the gunshots we heard in the distance.
Even in Highland Park, a town with some of the strictest gun laws in Illinois, lives are at risk from the lack of gun control.
Gun violence has been normalized, and no one is to blame except elected officials who have the power to put their constituents’ lives ahead of the gun lobby, but fail to do so every chance they get. Instead we have a Supreme Court that just put our country on a path to even more guns on our streets and a Congress that’s patting themselves on the back over a watered-down gun reform package that does little to stop the death sentence that is life in America right now for far too many.
I am enraged by the gun free-for-all that’s killing our children, our seniors, and everyone in between. The only way we can end this crisis is for our state and federal governments to pass the laws that we’ve all been demanding. Until that happens, we are not safe anywhere—not at our places of worship, our schools, our community gatherings. If you’re not committed to saving lives, then you have absolutely no place in public office.
Thank you to the first responders who bravely stepped into an active shooting and undoubtedly saved hundreds of lives.
I pray for healing for the victims — and my promise to you is that my years-long crusade against gun violence will continue stronger than ever.
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Julie Morrison for State Senate
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Deerfield, IL 60015
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