The shootings just won't stop

[Dave N]

Sitting in my wife's hospital room and the news came on about a mass shooting at a parade this morning in Highland Park near Chicago. 6 dead and 24 wounded right now. Rifle, young white male, on the run as of a few minutes ago.

 

[Rhcuam]

Weird, I would of thought the strict guns laws of highland parks would have prevented this.

 

[TayBou]

Our country does not have strict gun laws by any definition. Make the weapons capable of these atrocities illegal for untrained civilians to own. We're never going to be a great country until human lives are valued by law, and "well regulated" is the chant of 2A advocates.

 

[jeremys4]

Our country does not have strict gun laws by any definition. Make the weapons capable of these atrocities illegal for untrained civilians to own. We're never going to be a great country until human lives are valued by law, and "well regulated" is the chant of 2A advocates.

Pretty sure this county is already great. More laws only make more criminals.

 

[BuzzH]

At least we're number 1 in something.

 

[Rhcuam]

Our country does not have strict gun laws by any definition. Make the weapons capable of these atrocities illegal for untrained civilians to own. We're never going to be a great country until human lives are valued by law, and "well regulated" is the chant of 2A advocates.

HP already had a AWB in place as well as a ban on magazines of 10rds or more. It helped not. As well as Illinois requires you to have a Foid card.

 

[SC Living Outdoors]

Our country does not have strict gun laws by any definition. Make the weapons capable of these atrocities illegal for untrained civilians to own. We're never going to be a great country until human lives are valued by law, and "well regulated" is the chant of 2A advocates.

Welcome to HT. It sounds like you’ll really like it here.

 

[Little Big Man MT Chris]

Sitting in my wife's hospital room and the news came on about a mass shooting at a parade this morning in Highland Park near Chicago. 6 dead and 24 wounded right now. Rifle, young white male, on the run as of a few minutes ago.

We’ve been watching it as well , so many people broken mentally, with no value for how precious life is. No words just sorrow

 

[Nick87]

Weird, I would of thought the strict guns laws of highland parks would have prevented this.

No different than other mass shootings that occur every weekend in Cook County.

 

[Rhcuam]

No different than other mass shootings that occur every weekend in Cook County.

There is a difference.
These are rookie numbers compared to some weekends in other parts of Cook County, but those don’t make the news.

 

[Flatbrimmer]

Pretty sure this county is already great. More laws only make more criminals.

Preach. Laws are man-made. If they made it against the law to hate somebody, we would all be imprisoned… Also, I’ve never had an “easy” time obtaining a firearm…

 

[Nick87]

There is a difference.
These are rookie numbers compared to some weekends in other parts of Cook County, but those don’t make the news.

They make the local news but it's just mentioned in passing people are so used to it here that it gets about as much attention as a road kill raccoon.

 

[ccc23454]

Our country does not have strict gun laws by any definition. Make the weapons capable of these atrocities illegal for untrained civilians to own. We're never going to be a great country until human lives are valued by law, and "well regulated" is the chant of 2A advocates.

Funny thing about laws, criminals by definition dont follow them...

 

[Addicting]

Prayers for the families. Hope he gets caught and is sodomized in hell for eternity.

 

[Nick87]

HP already had a AWB in place as well as a ban on magazines of 10rds or more. It helped not. As well as Illinois requires you to have a Foid card.

Oh the FOID card is just the best. Everyone should use that system. It simply stops crime in its tracks.

 

[Chama Grande]

Oh we doin this again

 

[rwc101]

I've never had to wait more than 20 minutes to buy a gun which makes me wonder about people who think it's onerous.

 

[stealthy_bowman]

It’s messed up. Something’s gotta give, just don’t know what.
For starters though, shooter identity shouldn’t be made public, ever. They should get zero notoriety and simply be made to rot in prison in perpetuity.

 

[manitou1]

It’s messed up. Something’s gotta give, just don’t know what.
For starters though, shooter identity shouldn’t be made public, ever. They should get zero notoriety and simply be made to rot in prison in perpetuity.

And labeled a sick, demented POS. Nope, the media caudles them and makes them larger than life.

 

[Little Big Man MT Chris]

More laws and gun regulations won’t change the situation in our country, people with a broken thought process can’t be regulated, or controlled, only jailed after they choose to act on there thoughts and cross the moral boundary line . Nobody wakes up one day and just does this, it’s a gradual process where they embrace dark thoughts and choose not to resist them and over time, generally years there heart becomes dark and harden where they no longer feel remorse and they become lost mentally. And can on longer see the line between right and wrong. By the time they put thoughts into action they’ve been gone mentally for awhile. That’s kinda how I perceive these type of people