{"id":1540203,"date":"2022-07-05T15:50:13","date_gmt":"2022-07-05T19:50:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1540203"},"modified":"2022-07-05T15:50:15","modified_gmt":"2022-07-05T19:50:15","slug":"democrats-respond-to-illinois-parade-shooting-by-calling-for-more-gun-control-laws","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/democrats-respond-to-illinois-parade-shooting-by-calling-for-more-gun-control-laws\/","title":{"rendered":"Democrats Respond to Illinois Parade Shooting by Calling for More Gun Control Laws"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fdemocrats-respond-to-illinois-parade-shooting-by-calling-for-more-gun-control-laws%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1540203&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-joe-biden\">Joe Biden<\/a> and other top Democrats suggested they want more gun control laws passed following the mass shooting at a parade in Highland Park, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-illinois\">Illinois<\/a>, that left at least six dead and more injured on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have spoken to Governor Pritzker and Mayor Rotering, and have offered the full support of the Federal government to their communities,\u201d he said in a statement released by the White House, referring to Gov. J.B. Pritzker and\u00a0Mayor Nancy Rotering, both Democrats.<\/p>\n<p>Biden then suggested that he will support more gun laws. \u201cI recently signed the first major bipartisan gun reform legislation in almost thirty years into law, which includes actions that will save lives. But there is much more work to do, and I\u2019m not going to give up fighting the epidemic of gun violence,\u201d the statement said.<\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday, Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.), the No. 2 Democrat in the Senate, called for more restrictions on purchasing certain types of rifles.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLet me tell you, we all know, at least some of us do, it\u2019s not enough,\u201d Durbin told CNN. \u201cYou know, [that] they still think that a shooter can buy a weapon that is really designed for the military to kill people in volume, and has no sport or hunting purpose, and turn that weapon loose on an innocent crowd in Highland Park tells us there\u2019s much more to be done.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Fellow Illinois Sen. Tammy Duckworth, a Democrat, also issued a statement after Monday\u2019s shooting and claimed that \u201cwe can\u2019t stop there,\u201d adding Congress has to \u201cpass additional commonsense reforms.\u201d She did not elaborate.<\/p>\n<p>And Sen. Ed Markey (D-Mass.) agreed that Congress should take up new gun control measures, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SenMarkey\/status\/1544024757087207426?s=20&#038;t=Z65Kkj5zXQWKktI9qCCDjA\">according<\/a> to a Twitter post he made after the mass shooting.<\/p>\n<p>In 2013, Rotering signed an ordinance (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispfsb.com\/Public\/Firearms\/Ordinances\/highlandpark.pdf\">pdf<\/a>)\u00a0that banned certain types of firearms<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Joe Biden and other top Democrats suggested they want more gun control laws passed following the mass shooting at a parade in Highland Park, Illinois, that left at least six dead and more injured on Monday. \u201cI have spoken to Governor Pritzker and Mayor Rotering, and have offered the full support of the Federal [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1540203","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1540203","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/58"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1540203"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1540203\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1540203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1540203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1540203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}