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  2. The mass shooting in Highland Park was a senseless loss of life. Thoughts and prayers.
    On to the next one.

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    1. @Loretta Nericcio-Bohlman look at how many doors there are there!
      We need to harden these parades! One door in and out!

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  4. My deepest condolences to the community, every family who lost someone, and especially that little boy left alone in the world. Thank god for his extended family.
    It doesn’t have to be this way.

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    2. Kay Ouellette probably not confusion, but I’d say there is likely to be a sort of subconscious memory or residual effect/imprint. as we age, most people forget all distinct memories before around age 3, but the experiences we had before still shaped us a lot. obviously most kids learn to talk to varying degrees before age 3, and that and many other skills remain, as do habits and psychological characteristics or disorders. and kids before age 3 absolutely do remember things, that boy remembers his parents and that day right now, and it’s shaping his current life. it’s just probably going to eventually get deleted from his memory, and what will remain will be the effects of a period of grief and fear in his early childhood (also because the family members he’s with now are hurting, too). he’s probably not going to remember the day or his parents, but it’s likely that the earliest memories he will end up with later in life will be of being afraid in other situations. he’s likely to get very scared now if he’s separated from his new family because he experienced a really horrible version of that. a lot of kids have separation anxiety and worry that somehow their parents won’t come back, and for him that actually happened, so how could he not worry that it will happen again? I think he may even keep a specific fear of fireworks and gunshots or parades without knowing where it comes from.

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    3. @Semechki for Putin makes sense. It’s really such a sad and unfortunate situation to so many, and not only those who were directly involved. I believe a fireworks show was disrupted in Florida because people thought they heard gunshots. Turns out it wasn’t, but it caused the chaos nonetheless.
      Trauma. It really is an unfortunate thing. But out of trauma can come healing and strength and that is what I hope for all.

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  5. *Trump made a statement! Watch the video you will be shocked* EVERYDAYS.ML

    Mr.Dunn – respect for you.

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  6. It’s all well and good paying tribute to the deceased, but, is it really normal that this becomes a constant occurrence in the USA?
    Tributes? Thoughts and prayers? There’s something quite odd about a country that accepts mass shootings as a price ready to be paid for, apparently, freedom and the right to bear arms. Give it a month, or less than that, and we’ll revisit a story like this again

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  8. Don’t you think it is deeply hypocritical about praying for a problem you are unwilling to resolve?

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    1. How do you know the people’s prayers are hypocritical? It may be that folks just want a safe city and are very aware that Republicans fight for the myth that ordinary citizens have a constitutional “right to carry a gun” You are taking what people say and condemning them as hypocrites when you have no idea where they stand politically. Oh well, I guess asking anyone to keep an open mind in the country’s current political condition would not be realistic 🤔 .

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  11. Every single person who came into contact with him should be held accountable, starting with the police.

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    1. @Lorna Hudson
      If we didn’t have this culture we’d still be answering to you Brits. Why do these shootings happen in gun free zones then? Why do they happen in the most gun restricted cities?

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    3. They weren’t ‘lost’. They were live, breathing human beings who were senselessly killed by high-calibre rifle fire at a public celebration. They were murdered by one deranged person, who was celebrating his own ‘second amendment rights’. They died a horrendous death by being blown apart with a weapon of war, because our government representatives refuse to act. Call your Congress person and tell them!

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    1. @Larry Beasley At least the presentation focused on those who were lost & not the shooter. Anderson showed their pictures and told us how they were thought of by others who knew them well and loved them. That was an important thing to do. What does his sensuality have to do with it?

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  15. They need a nation wide data base where they can do background checks. Something needs to be done because this is nuts like a 4wk delay in buying a gun so they can go through a person’s social media .

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    1. Ignore Kenia McGuire. It’s just a bot trying to get thumbs ups and views for it’s irrelevant video in order to get it monetized. Cheep trick. Don’t fall for it.

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    2. Really? Demand that we have better gun laws! Everyone’s tired of hearing hearts and prayers. These statements don’t help, heal, or bring those people back. But activism against the easy access to guns will keep people alive in the future.

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  17. It’s a little disturbing how a 21 year old man is being referred to as a “kid” so much by the reporter at the end of the video. He may have an immature mindset, but is certainly no child.

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    1. At 18 my husband had a mortgage, car loan, a good job and a baby on the way. 21 is NOT a kid. His rantings screamed of mental instability and violence. It’s not insufficient gun laws, it’s society’s refusal to address mental illness. That shooter didn’t become that way over night. Asylums can deal with them.

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    2. @M Chapman it’s both. Mental illness and easy access to weapons designed to kill human beings. If your husband had a mortgage at 18, a car note and a good job, he’s one in 10 billion.

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  18. If the killer could disguise himself like a woman he perfectly knows what he’s doing he ain’t crazy🤔

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  19. Police have revealed new details about the attack, including the fact that the suspect was previously known to police after he made threats against his own family. Investigators said at a Tuesday press conference that they had first encountered Crimo when he tried to take his own life in April 2019, prompting a call to authorities who treated the case as a mental health emergency.
    Then, in September of that year, a relative of Crimo called police and reported that in his family home he had threatened “to kill everyone”, said Chris Covelli, the leader of a police taskforce investigating major crimes in Lake county, which includes Highland Park. That report prompted local police to remove 16 knives, a dagger and a sword from his home, and they notified state troopers – who issue Illinois gun permits – about the threat, Covelli added.
    Even though Highland Park’s municipal government banned assault-style guns within city limits in 2013, Covelli said Crimo managed to legally obtain two rifles – including one styled after an AR-15 – and at least three other guns in the general Chicago area, many parts of which do not enforce such restrictions.

    He had apparently planned the attack on the Fourth of July parade for weeks and allegedly posted dozens of videos with ominous songs showing images of himself or cartoon figures holding rifles with threatening messages, including one reading: “Everything has led up to this. Nothing can stop me, even myself.”

    YET IN SPITE OF ALL THESE SIGNS, STILL HE WAS ABLE TO BUY GUNS!!!

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