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On June 24, Congress passed legislation designed to make it harder for dangerous people to obtain firearms. Do we now need security guards on every roof? There aren’t enough people to provide security at every site in the nation. Gun rights groups and their apologists in Congress also argue in favor of more armed security instead of fewer guns. They ran to find the source of the bullets. But police were on site at the parade when the shooting started.
Gun rights groups like to say the answer to a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun. The Highland Park tragedy could hardly better illustrate the folly of unfettered access to guns. Highland Park, the former home of Michael Jordan, was about as safe as a community could be. As long as we allow guns to proliferate and permit so many guns to fall into the hands of individuals who are legally banned from possessing firearms, no place is safe. People who say they never thought gun violence could “happen here” should wake up. There is never a break from gun violence in America. There have been 309 mass shootings in America just so far this year. In Chicago, 57 people were shot, nine of them fatally in Fourth of July weekend violence from Friday evening to Monday morning. This is a nation that already has been shattered by Uvalde, Texas Sandy Hook, Connecticut Buffalo, New York Orlando, Florida Blacksburg, Virginia Sutherland Springs, Texas El Paso, Texas Las Vegas, Nevada Marjorie Stoneman Douglas High School, Florida Columbine, Colorado, and others too numerous to mention. We have to ask ourselves: What is the future of “soft targets” such as parades, which can’t be secured by metal detectors? Will people who emerged from the seclusion of COVID-19 be forced to isolate themselves once more? Who will feel safe in the future enjoying the innocent joy of attending a parade? We have to ask ourselves: What truly is freedom? Access to an unlimited number of firearms with too few rules governing who can carry them? Or the freedom to go to a parade, to church, to school, to a theater, to a concert, to a grocery or just walk down the street without fear?
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