We were all horrified when a man opened fire at the Highland Park Independence Day parade, killing seven people and injuring dozens more.

But more than four months later, the Illinois General Assembly gaveled in and out of their first week back in Springfield after the election — and no action was taken to ban these weapons of war from our streets. 

Meanwhile, Illinois leads the nation in the number of people killed or injured in mass shootings, according to data compiled by the Gun Violence Archive this year. Number one.

That’s wholly unacceptable.