Highland Park Mayor: Shooter’s weapon was ‘legally obtained’
Highland Park Mayor Nancy Rotering told NBC’s “Today Show” that the Fourth of July parade shooting is an “absolutely devastating blow” to her community – and now the U.S. needs to re-examine gun laws in its aftermath.
“This tragedy never should have arrived on our doorsteps and as a small town, everybody knows somebody that was affected by this directly,” she said.
Rotering said she was suspect Robert Crimo III’s cub scout leader as a child, describing him as “just a little boy.”
On Tuesday, Rotering said she is now waiting for prosecutors to file charges against him for the shooting, which left 6 dead and more than 30 injured. She said she didn’t know where the gun came from that was used in the attack, but noted that it was legally obtained.
“I think at some point the nation needs to have a conversation about these weekly events involving the murder of dozens of people with legally-obtained guns,” Rotering told the “Today Show.””If that is what our laws stand for, then I think we need to re-examine the laws.”
Posted by Greg Norman
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