WASHINGTON (WBBM NEWSRADIO) -- The mass shooting at the Highland Park 4th of July Parade was front and center before the Senate Judiciary Committee Wednesday.
The hearing was called "after the highland park attack...protecting our communities from mass shootings."
The mass shootings in Highland Park, Uvalde, Texas, and Buffalo, N.Y. have reignited the debate over an assault weapons ban.
Highland Park mayor Nancy Rotering told the senate judiciary committee that her suburb banned assault weapons and large-capacity magazines in the wake of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting in 2013.
"We knew that a federal ban would be the most effective, but a local ban reflecting the values of our community was our only option under the law."
Rotering called on Congress to do the same.
"You must federally ban assault weapons and large capacity magazines. Today is the day to start saving lives."
Republican senator John Cornyn of Texas begged to differ on the issue and does not support reintroducing the assault weapons ban, which expired in 2004.
"An inanimate object won't cause harm to anyone. What does matter is the person possessing that firearm."
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