SPRINGFIELD — Victims and survivors of multiple mass shootings urged state lawmakers on Monday to pass a ban on assault weapons, arguing that communities throughout Illinois have felt the pain of deadly mass shootings.“I was shot multiple times on the Fourth of July in Highland Park,” Lauren Bennett said during a legislative committee meeting in Chicago.She described the “maelstrom” of bullets that tore through a crowd during an Independence Day parade this year.“As a gunshot survivor, a …