Highland Park mothers join Capitol Hill ‘Survivor Sit-In’

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Stephanie Luger is one of several Highland Park mothers to join family members of victims and survivors of mass shootings this week at a sit-in at Capitol Hill to pressure Congress to call a vote on a federal assault weapons ban.

Schwartz is driven each day by the memory of his cousin and best friend, Alex Schacter, who was killed in the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School mass shooting in 2018.

Sit-in participants are asking lawmakers to pledge their support to cosponsor and call a federal assault weapons ban to a vote.Schwartz met the Highland Park mothers, who also include Sonya Cohen who is joining the sit-in on Saturday, while attempting to sway the minds of legislators last summer., a group of young Black men who sat at the lunch counter inside the Woolworth Company store in Greensboro, North Carolina, to protest racial segregation policies in 1960.

Sonya Cohen sits on a park bench near her Highland Park home while displaying a sign she made with her children pictured to urge legislative action to mitigate gun violence.“This is supposed to be the land of the free,” Cohen said. “I don’t feel very free when I don’t feel safe doing the everyday things which most people should take for granted.”Advertisement

The group has been hoping to confront and engage Republican lawmakers on the issue, including some who Schwartz said, “are not hearing us,” and might be unwilling to otherwise address survivors and victims’ families. Actress Laura Dern has been participating as well, with her daughter, and the pair joined with Schwartz and other protesters to deliver letters demanding a vote to the offices of Schumer and Durbin.

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