Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot made an impassioned plea for state and federal assistance following the city’s second mass shooting in less than a week, according to ABC News, begging the Biden administration and the Illinois governor’s office for help in quelling the city’s out-of-control gun violence.
Lightfoot focused her request for solutions on the “illegal gun” problem, suggesting that Chicago, which has some of the nation’s strictest gun laws, is suffering because of more lenient gun laws elsewhere and the lack of a uniform federal response to the illicit gun trade.
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