Sniper kills at least 6 at Chicago Suburb July 4th parade

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5 dead, 16 hurt in shooting along July Fourth parade route north of Chicago

That's awful.

I can't even imagine.

I thought Biden was going to do something about gun control in the wake of Uvalde?

CNN live updates

Ahh s**t. Evil takes no holiday.

Found at least one article on Chicago Tribune website,
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Carrie Mangoubi was at the parade with her three young children and niece when the shooting started. First, she saw the marching band break away from the route and sprint down the street, followed shortly by fire trucks and police cruisers speeding backward down the road.

“It didn’t even cross my mind that there would be a shooter,” Mangoubi said. “Then somebody yelled, ‘There’s a shooter!’ so we just picked up our kids, grabbed them under their arms and just started bolting to the car.”

Mangoubi, of Northbrook, said her heart was still pounding out of her chest several hours after the shooting. Mangoubi’s family moved from the city to the north suburbs in recent years, thinking it would be a safer place to raise their family. Her children were frightened.

“We just explained to them, ‘There’s a bad guy with a gun and we have to run to keep you safe,’” Mangoubi said. “How do you explain this to young children?”
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Indeed, how?

I have no children, young or otherwise, but, indeed, how???

https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/bre ... story.html

and ...
https://news.yahoo.com/reports-gunshots ... 17399.html

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A man whose adult daughter was at the parade told The Daily Beast that she was grazed by a bullet to the shoulder while protecting her toddler from the shots hitting people around her.

“We got a call—she was hysterical, saying there was a live shooter and she’d been grazed in the shoulder and she’s covering her daughter. She was barely making sense, and my wife started yelling and crying,” he said, asking not to be named because the shooter was still at large.

“The shooter was right across the street, they were in the line of fire,” he said, adding that his daughter and her child sought shelter in Walker Brothers restaurant but have since returned home.

“She’s still in shock, but the question with the 2-year-old now is ‘Should I take her to day care? Should she go to school? Should we go to the store? Should we let her out of the house?’ A lot of people are asking these questions these days, so you just don’t feel safe anywhere anymore. It’s a very affluent neighborhood, it’s one of the richest neighborhoods in Illinois. It’s insane.

“I have a younger daughter who moved to Colorado. Her boyfriend’s parents live in Highland Park, and his mom’s best friend got hit and died.”
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He picked this most American of days for this most American of activities! Despicable.

When will the horror end.

When was the last time USA had a Democratic Senate and SCOTUS?

Did they ban assault rifles?

I thought they've always been allowed?

Also, isn't SCOTUS supposed to be nonpartisan?

Thanks!

So they had a ban for ten years and decided to stop it?


https://www.npr.org/2019/08/13/75065617 ... -it-expire

Wow.

I guess everyone is going to have to start wearing a bullet-proof vest whenever they go out now. That will be the next "new normal", after wearing masks. Well, it should be.