‘Look at Chicago’: Politicians again use city as example of why strict gun control won’t work
CHICAGO — Aline Stern of Chicago's Lincoln Square neighborhood found it difficult to send her two children to school on Wednesday, the morning after an 18-year-old gunman opened fire in an elementary school in Texas, killing 19 children and two adults.
She sensed a fearful tension among many other parents at drop-off as well.
“I think we were all scared,” she said. “We all hugged them a little tighter. School is supposed to be a safe haven for kids. Not a place where you’re afraid.”
Parents, teachers and politicians around the Chicago area spent Wednesday mourning the loss of lives following Tuesday’s mass shooting at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, as well as grappling with the nation’s gun violence crisis.
Meanwhile, politicians again traded barbs over Chicago’s violence, with Republicans repeating the refrain of using the city as a political punching bag to suggest stricter gun control will do nothing to slow the seemingly never-ending
