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And there it is. The most American thing you'll see all year.
https://www.cnn.com/2022/07/04/us/highland-park-illinois-shooting-july-4-parade/index.html
Jul 4, 2022 5:00 PM
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https://www.cnn.com/2022/07/04/us/highland-park-illinois-shooting-july-4-parade/index.html
OdinYggd
This is close to Chicago. Don't make assumptions about what happened until we have facts.
FunkyButttlovin
Nothing like a little Red, White and bloodshed to spice up the day
flounder35
Wouldn’t it be more American if it was in a McDonalds?
ProudAussie
Shooter is a Republican. Who didn't think that would be the case.
Subsound
A sacrifice for freedom /s
ObiWanKenobitch
And the band played on…
zanaria
I'd wish you a Happy 4th of July, but you dont get to celebrate that again until you fix your fucking country....
vodkaho
No celebration of lost rights at my house. Today we mourn the death of our freedoms and rights.
gheorghiumihai77
I would hate to be an american right now.
aruterbo101
Fair, I hate being an american right now. Any countries interested in adopting a soon to be refuge?
Nyxish
It’s stupid to ask - but why? Was there a reason or just to cause terror for guns? (Cause that is pretty Murica too)
bizzybanana
deathandtaxes1
Definitely top 5 most American things I’ll see all year.
Whitebeardthepirate
jesus.....this shit isn't going to end until full scale civil war breaks out
Tumescentpie
It isn't going to end until we have reasonable gun control laws and an end to allowing a racist party to be main stream
Whitebeardthepirate
"it's called the american dream, because you have to be asleep to believe it" - George Carlin
Tumescentpie
I feel this. I don't think it is ever going to happen. The civil war might, the end of gun violence won't happen here
LivTemple
Sounds pretty American to me....
FuMangChu
USA! USA!
JackingMeHoff
Celebrating July 4th with a bang, not fireworks but with guns shooting innocent people. Thanks Fascist SCOTUS, making America vomit.
ChrishCat
USA
klean9
So far shooter is identified as a white male (surprise!) about 18 to 20 years old. Probably a Kyle R. wannabe, I bet
CalvinMcFly
Fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck. Start banning guns already!! Absolutely fucking ridiculous
Mellamew
KAPTKipper
How many Denmarks is it this week, America?
yoyo42
The Illinois Nazi's at work again.
TerraKnight
sounds American so... just another day
undeadlemur
sigh...yep.
UnderpantsWithPockets
Can we please, just for one fucking day, not be a global embarrassment?
TheWombatStrikesAgain
Last time was november 3rd 2020. Ironically, the most embarassing people are convinced that the non-embarassing thing didn't happen.
ImHereToGetDownvotes
As long as Republicans exist, no no we can't.
KaiserGSaw
did you notice.. that your supreme court limited EPA authority to set climate standarts for Powerplants? you guys do some wacky stuff
UnderpantsWithPockets
Yes, and it's exhausting. I've never been so tired in my life seeing this shit over and over. This is indeed the darkest timeline
threenotch23
No we are an absolute mosh pit of embarrassment
AsAnItalianItsDifficultTalkingOnTheWebCauseIcantUseMyHands
Yeah, please that’d be nice
SpoilsburyToastMan
SociallyAwkwardCanadianMoose
Get rid of Boris then get back in the EU and I might sleep better
SpoilsburyToastMan
Might not be long until he's gone... https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/uk-politics-62048657
TychoGaming
I honestly really hope we fucking do.
SociallyAwkwardCanadianMoose
Welp, step one is done now...
imgurianitarian
I’m emigrating from U.K. to NZ in less than 100 days. Easiest choice I’ve ever made.
TychoGaming
Welp I'm way too poor and lacking any sort of reasonable skills to be able to emigrate.
Polymathena
You misspelled disgrace.
UnderpantsWithPockets
Potato, potato
Shuckeru
At least today its part of a long tradition
LearnTheDifferenceBetweenYourAndYoure
As someone from Illinois. Highland Park is a pricey town. Michael Jordan lived there while playing for the Bulls.
NewtGinGrinch
Possibly barricaded in a grocery store. Info hasnt hit the news yet.
vitaminalgas
Source?
trippingthelightfantastic
gadaboutpoet
Highland Park has a large Jewish population. I can’t help but wonder about the shooter’s motive. This is 15 minutes from where we were
Ceistebi
Also has a not-insignificant population identifying as Hispanic/Latino.
dendiverdown
Next door in Highwood?
gadaboutpoet
going to watch fireworks tonight. We’ll stay home & make s’mores instead.
vitaminalgas
The whole north shore of Chicago is though...
gadaboutpoet
4-5 suburbs more than others, but yes. And that’s why we’re staying home tonight.
vitaminalgas
Don't blame you dude...things are weird
Thelrishlnquistion
If you’re an American patriot I wouldn’t bother celebrating this year, because there’s nothing to celebrate.
cropduster5000
I am, in fact, not celebrating a damned thing today
ThrowAwayAcct0000
I've come to the conclusion that whenever I visit the US again, I will 100% not be attending any large gatherings.
keystotheairlock
We don't like them much anymore, either.
keystotheairlock
WE KNOW, DUDE.
Rhythmaster
I literally haven't seen the word "patriot" in america used by anyone other than far right extremist terrorists lately. Patriot front etc.
Rhythmaster
It's become just another alt-Reich buzzword like "heritage" "the west" or "(((globalists)))"
MajorasFlipFlops
Threw out my American flag shirt the other day. I work for the army,.so the flag still follows me.
Illinifan88
Yep... assholes shooting fireworks all weekend is a whole new level of enraging this year.
QuitLookinAtMineAim
It's been a tough year. A string of tough years
WitchIrkalla
We had a flag burning on the second instead
StarscreamAndHutch
Hatriots
PTMdragon
Patriots know. Nationalists dont care.
BobRossHB
I'm saying this, we dont deserve the 4th until we fully deal with the 6th. Fuck traitor trash
constellanation5
Unfortunately the people who identify as "patriots" the most think they are winning bigly lately
OldJedi
And are also the shooters.
GrumpyOldMillennial
America would be better off today had we remained a colony. Ironic isn't it?
Thelrishlnquistion
You could have turned out like Canada or New Zealand.
KillingTlme
There is a lot to celebrate, but there is also a lot to be upset about.
freshthrowaway1138
I don't want to be a doomer, but what happened this year to celebrate?
KillingTlme
Ukraine still stands and Russia's military facade has been destroyed. Gas prices have skyrocketed, which is great for the planet.
ThrowAwayAcct0000
I too am curious.
KillingTlme
The Jan. 6th hearings have a chance to be fruitful. Democrats have learned not to trust Republicans and less comprimise is happening.
BlackAssMamaWhiteAssDaddy
I haven’t taken my Stars and Stripes cutoff overalls off the hanger in 2 years, no matter HOW amazing and free my calves look in’m
thedarkcanuck
Um.. I think I speak for everyone when I say that we're gonna need to see them calves in them cutoffs
BlackAssMamaWhiteAssDaddy
You’ve made this mulatto man blush, congrats
Clockworkdancerobot
Not to mention some idiots in the midwest loved to fire off their guns on the 4th. Every so often someone would get hit by a rogue bullet.
turbo22465
Be careful when you say Midwest. Michigan is the Kentucky of the north.
iDrawStuff
People seem to forget that those bullets they shoot up are subject to gravity. And, yes, they will still kill you.
Totallyscrewedinaustin
Killed a 7 year old boy yesterday in Florida. Was walking on the beach with his dad and then....
SeriousSeamstress
Same thing happens in rural Oregon. I don't go outside on the the 4th and New years. Lots of drunks with guns.
Gavener
yep, Southern Oregon here and boy when I was younger guns where the big boom not fireworks, lucky I lived on a farm
P3at3ar
Californias favorite game. Firework or gun shot.
Asadsadsadclown
This is a thing across the US. But not what happened here. This was a terror attack. Gunman was positioned on a rooftop and still at large.
thedarkcanuck
This from the same crowd who always claims to know so much about gun safety
QuasiIntellectualChimpanzee
The well-regulated militia
Clockworkdancerobot
That is what gets me. I recall just about every halloween season in most places you'd hear people firing off guns. You'd HEAR it.
thedarkcanuck
Oh I've done it, it's super fun. But the guns always stayed locked up when the booze came out, and we just shot into the dirt, not the sky
Newfehotep
Yeah, nothing wrong with sport shooting if you're not a moron. Know how far a ricochet could go and what's downrange of the backstop.
Newfehotep
And even firing into the air isn't actually that stupid (it's at least a little stupid), as long as it's higher than a ballistic trajectory.