It was a horrific coincidence that members of the Highland Park community gathered to mourn victims of another American massacre not 10 days before someone opened fired during their Fourth of July parade.
Two officers stand guard near 2nd and Central avenues at a mass shooting crime scene on July 4, 2022, in Highland Park.
Just days ago, Gordon helped organize an event in Highland Park dubbed “a community art action against gun violence.” It was prompted by the Uvalde shooting in May, and the names of its 21 victims were read.
That legal fight was appealed all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court, which declined to hear the case, allowing a lower court ruling in favor of the ban to stand. Just this year, the current iteration of the Supreme Court made a ruling that limited the way states could restrict concealed carrying of guns outside the home; the ruling
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