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billh58

(6,641 posts)
Wed Jul 5, 2023, 03:57 PM Jul 2023

Fourth of July overshadowed by 16 mass shootings across US

From the nation’s capital to Fort Worth, Texas, from Florin, California, in the west to the Bronx, New York, in the east, the Fourth of July long weekend in the US was overshadowed by 16 mass shootings in which 15 people were killed and nearly 100 injured.

The Gun Violence Archive, an authoritative database on gun violence in America, calculated the grim tally using its definition of a mass shooting as an incident in which four or more people excluding the shooter are killed or injured by firearms.

The tragic bloodletting was recorded from 5pm on Friday until 5am on Wednesday across 13 states as well as Washington DC. Texas and Maryland both entered the register twice.

In one of the final catastrophes to mar the weekend honoring the nation’s founding, nine people were injured in a drive-by shooting in Washington in the early hours of Wednesday. The victims included two children aged nine and 17. All injuries were reported as non life-threatening.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/fourth-of-july-overshadowed-by-16-mass-shootings-across-us/ar-AA1dskXl?ocid=hpmsn&cvid=64264425d63d4531a68c5f6c24c751e2&ei=13


Only in the USA do we celebrate by killing and maiming each other.
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Fourth of July overshadowed by 16 mass shootings across US (Original Post) billh58 Jul 2023 OP
I was in a big crowd yesterday in SF at Pier 39 kimbutgar Jul 2023 #1
How pathetic is it that this crosses our minds every time we're in a crowd Sky Jewels Jul 2023 #6
Come vacation in the good old USA, go home dead! Lovely place. n/t RKP5637 Jul 2023 #2
The need by whites for an armed militia has evolved into a terrorist weapon against minorities... Alexander Of Assyria Jul 2023 #3
Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness bronxiteforever Jul 2023 #4
Fuuuuuuuuuuuuuck. Sky Jewels Jul 2023 #5

kimbutgar

(23,085 posts)
1. I was in a big crowd yesterday in SF at Pier 39
Wed Jul 5, 2023, 04:02 PM
Jul 2023

And I admit I was a little nervous but there were a lot of police and security guards. So I felt safer.

Sky Jewels

(8,745 posts)
6. How pathetic is it that this crosses our minds every time we're in a crowd
Wed Jul 5, 2023, 04:43 PM
Jul 2023

or even out in public, like a grocery store or a movie theater or something? I mean, what a country, where we just accept that gun humping is the norm and we go about our lives hoping that this isn't the day that we get randomly mowed down by some angry male with an assault weapon.

 

Alexander Of Assyria

(7,839 posts)
3. The need by whites for an armed militia has evolved into a terrorist weapon against minorities...
Wed Jul 5, 2023, 04:04 PM
Jul 2023

an ancient constitutional need has survived to today, still needed by whites, for same reason…that the constitutional terrorism kills whites also is a minor fault!

bronxiteforever

(9,311 posts)
4. Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness
Wed Jul 5, 2023, 04:21 PM
Jul 2023

Inalienable rights not so much. All of these rights must bow before King Gun.

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