Chicago Sun Times: Highland Park group organizes second Capitol Hill push for assault weapons ban

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Source: Chicago Sun Times

WASHINGTON — A Thursday rally on Capitol Hill brought together people forever scarred by 10 mass shootings, with this latest uphill battle for Congress to pass an assault weapons ban organized by a group founded in the wake of the Highland Park July 4 parade massacre.

“I’m glad that I’m amongst people who know what I am going through,” said Zeneta Everhart, whose 21-year-old son, Zaire Goodman, was seriously wounded May 14 in the racially motivated slaughter at a Buffalo, New York, grocery store where a shooter using an AR-15 killed 10 people.

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