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Highland Park shooting survivors in Washington DC to meet with lawmakers, push for gun control
Their eyes had been nonetheless damp with tears when survivors of the nation’s most up-to-date mass shootings, Highland Park and Uvalde, emerged from the primary of a marathon of conferences on Capitol Hill.
“There was a household subsequent to us, the mother and father had been each shot and killed,” mentioned Natalie Lorentz, Highland Park survivor. “Simply having the ability to be out on the earth and really feel secure, to have that ripped away and to know that at any second that might and can occur once more.”
Their first cease was to the workplace of Connecticut Senator Chris Murphy, an emphatic advocate for gun management.
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“We shared our tales, but additionally mentioned that we do not have time to attend,” Lorentz mentioned. “There must be change now.”
“I wish to see this be the one concern that transcends political divisiveness,” mentioned one other Highland Park survivor, who requested to not be recognized.
Senator Murphy tried. He co-sponsored the primary vital piece of gun laws to cross by Congress in 30 years. Earlier than that Congress hadn’t handed vital bipartisan gun laws, one which included a federal assault weapons ban, since 1994.
“That is about greater than somebody’s proper to fireside an AR-15,” mentioned U.S. Senator Tammy Duckworth (D-Illinois). “That is about our youngsters’s proper to reside.”
When requested if she thought Congress may cross an assault weapons ban, she replied, “I’ll maintain exhibiting up every single day till we do.”
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However that was earlier than Highland Park. With every passing week, tales like Lorentz’s change into a extra frequent.
“That is an epidemic, one thing now we have to cope with, definitely, to get an assault weapons ban,” mentioned U.S. Rep. Jan Schakowsky (D-IL 9).
Many take into account that inconceivable, Schakowsky doesn’t.
“No, it isn’t inconceivable. The timing could also be tough proper now, however it’s completely potential,” she mentioned.
With three latest mass shootings now high of thoughts, the increasing coalition of survivors is decided to make private pleas for stricter federal gun legal guidelines.
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FILE photograph: View of the Chicago Hearth Division, the third largest municipal hearth division in america of America, within the Chinatown neighborhood on Sept. 24, 2014.
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CHICAGO (WLS) — Chicago hearth officers mentioned two ladies have been discovered lifeless in an Englewood house after a home hearth.
The fireplace broke out Tuesday night at a home within the 7200-block of South Wolcott, Chicago hearth officers mentioned.
The fireplace was struck out at about 9:10 p.m., CFD mentioned.
After the fireplace was out, firefighters discovered two grownup feminine victims lifeless within the wreckage.
It was not instantly clear if the ladies died within the hearth or earlier than the fireplace. No additional particulars have been launched.
The Chicago Hearth Division has not but commented on any potential causes for the fireplace or mentioned in the event that they consider it was suspicious.
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HIGHLAND PARK, Ailing. (WLS) — Three ladies and their households had been good strangers up till the second tragedy introduced them collectively within the aftermath of Highland Park’s July 4th parade.
As Thanksgiving approaches, they’re united in goal and in gratitude for probably the most primary of all issues: life.
“I believed I used to be going to die,” Highland Park capturing survivor Liz Turnipseed mentioned. “That I used to be going to put there and I used to be going to bleed out and I used to be going to die.”
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“I used to be on the parade with my three grownup kids, my son-in-law and my 2-year-old grand child,” mentioned Debra Baum, with the Highland Park Gun Violence Mission. “Our complete household may have been worn out.”
“July third I had 70 folks at my home and the following day our life bought flipped the other way up,” capturing survivor Lindsay Hartman mentioned. “So I simply know for me, I am attempting to take pleasure in it and never spend an excessive amount of time previously.”
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For Lindsay, not spending an excessive amount of time previously means internet hosting Thanksgiving for 30. Liz, who was one of many almost 50 folks injured that day, nonetheless wants a cane to get round, so she’ll be catering the meal and having her complete household fly in. Debra shall be coming along with the identical household she was with on July 4.
“There are numerous households in Highland Park that do not have folks with them this Thanksgiving due to what occurred,” Baum mentioned. “It is a very weighty realization.”
However there’s additionally gratitude for random issues and other people, like for the proper strangers who took in Liz’s 3-year-old daughter for a few hours after she was shot. And the neighbor she’d by no means met earlier than who lent her a step stool for her mattress.
Turning ache into goal is what unites these ladies now as they foyer for an assault weapons ban in Congress. As a result of whereas life for them won’t ever be the identical, it does transfer on.
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WASHINGTON D.C. — The Biden administration is but once more extending the pause on federal scholar mortgage funds, a profit that started in March 2020 to assist individuals who have been struggling financially because of the Covid-19 pandemic, a supply conversant in the plan mentioned.
The Division of Training will announce it’s extending the freeze one other six months with the primary funds due two months after June 30, the supply mentioned, until a Supreme Courtroom resolution on the president’s scholar mortgage aid program comes first.
The administration had beforehand mentioned the latest extension could be the final, and funds have been scheduled to restart in January.
However the administration had additionally meant for its scholar mortgage forgiveness program to start canceling as much as $20,000 in debt for low- and middle-income debtors earlier than January. This system has but to be carried out because it faces a number of authorized challenges.
This story is breaking and can be up to date.
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