The 4th of July is a day to celebrate America, the experience quintessential American things like baseball, hot dogs, apple pie and that most classic and unique of American experiences, the mass shooting.
Robert Crimo III, 21, delivered on that American experience on July 4th where he murdered 7 people and injured dozens more during an Independence Day parade in Highland Park, Illinois.
Now if you think for a second that I'm making light of this tragedy, I would remind you that I consider this latest massacre another affront to all that we hold decent in a civilized society.
But there are those who think that for the right to unfettered access to all the guns you want, such a massacre is just the collateral damage we have to pay to for unlimited access to guns.
National Rifle Association put up this tweet on Independence Day: “The only reason you’re celebrating Independence Day is because citizens were armed."
There are seven people dead in Highland Park, Illinois because of an “armed citizen.”
As much as I am shocked and horrified by this latest mass shooting, there's part of me that head there was a mass shooting on Independence Day in America and I sadly noted, "Yeah, that sounds about right."
Such is the numbing regularity of these atrocities.
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