What's the mood at your 4th of July parade?

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Anonymous wrote:Judging from the posts here, I think many of you were either not alive during the attack on Sept. 11, 2001 or were too young to remember it.
One thing I learned from that...... we cannot change our behavior because of fear. When you do, the terrorists win.

But we did “change behavior” drastically after 9/11 and laws were put into place so it hadn’t happened here since. That is not the case with mass shootings and the easy availability of deadly firearms. Had we changed as drastically as we did after 9/11 after Columbine, how many innocent lives would have been saved.
To the families of the Highland Park victims - they lost to the domestic terrorists forever.

The domestic terrorists include Wayne LaPierre and the NRA.

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Everything today was low key and sort of blah. Great being with family and friends but a particularly joyful day. We’re from a neighboring town to Highland Park and felt the shooting pretty intently.

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Anonymous wrote:Youngking was boooed in FAIRFAX VA

I love to hear it.

Aww, how disappointing. Because he actually wasn’t booed. Keep the faith, though!

Aww, how sweet of you to continue to prop up gun loving republicans while more people are murdered every day. Bet you just loved the carnage today, didn’t you?

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Anonymous wrote:Youngking was boooed in FAIRFAX VA

I love to hear it.

Aww, how disappointing. Because he actually wasn’t booed. Keep the faith, though!

Aww, how sweet of you to continue to prop up gun loving republicans while more people are murdered every day. Bet you just loved the carnage today, didn’t you?

Seek help for your obvious derangement. Best of luck.

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Good times here. Parades, candy, flags, bands, picnics, catching up, fireworks. Now back to work tomorrow.

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Anonymous wrote:It’s sad. Another American parade was cut short today by a mass murder! Few people were at our parade and everyone was sad.

This isn’t the county I want to celebrate. We have to be better than this.

Name a weekend there isn’t a shooting or a 4+ person “mass murder” shooting in Chicago. Feel free to go back over 60 years.

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Anonymous wrote:Judging from the posts here, I think many of you were either not alive during the attack on Sept. 11, 2001 or were too young to remember it.
One thing I learned from that...... we cannot change our behavior because of fear. When you do, the terrorists win.

Yet you stormed the Capitol because you feared Biden. Oh and everyone changed their behavior after 911 by force of government.

How many 1000s of violent, armed people stormed the Capitol to stage a well-planned, well-funded coup and take over the country?!?

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Anonymous wrote:very cute, with little kids and fire trucks

Until your kids get shot. Then it’s not so cute anymore.

So sad to hear about SE DC shootings again. Were you affected?

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Anonymous wrote:Very patriotic. Lots of people - kids, grandkids, pets. Our neighborhood honored our vets as they always do - they paraded at the front of the parade.

Impressive fireworks display later tonight - as always.

Our neighborhood represents people from nearly every state... very few born and raised in the area. But we all have one thing in common - proud to be American.

+1 same for our neighborhood!

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Lots of celebrating and fun.

So you are celebrating people getting shot?

Typical right wing denial. "Didn't happen to me so who cares."

Every day, there are tragedies. Banality of evil and all that. But, only the mentally ill cancel all their plans to sit in mourning over daily shootings that dont involve them. A normal and healthy behavior is to continue on with your celebrations. Im wishing you peace, comfort, and a good therapist.

+100

You are a f**king sociopath if you think that a person mourning the senseless death of another is “mentally ill”. Seriously, I am so sorry for the monsters you call children that you are raising.

Whoa. Pls bring this response of yours to your next therapy session.

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Anonymous wrote:Very patriotic. Lots of people - kids, grandkids, pets. Our neighborhood honored our vets as they always do - they paraded at the front of the parade.

Impressive fireworks display later tonight - as always.

Our neighborhood represents people from nearly every state... very few born and raised in the area. But we all have one thing in common - proud to be American.

+1 same for our neighborhood!

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Lots of celebrating and fun.

So you are celebrating people getting shot?

Typical right wing denial. "Didn't happen to me so who cares."

Every day, there are tragedies. Banality of evil and all that. But, only the mentally ill cancel all their plans to sit in mourning over daily shootings that dont involve them. A normal and healthy behavior is to continue on with your celebrations. Im wishing you peace, comfort, and a good therapist.

+100

You are a f**king sociopath if you think that a person mourning the senseless death of another is “mentally ill”. Seriously, I am so sorry for the monsters you call children that you are raising.

Whoa. Pls bring this response of yours to your next therapy session.

Their response is totally appropriate.

Your lack of empathy is disturbing. Perhaps you see a bit of yourself in their description?

Maybe discuss that with your therapist.

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Anonymous wrote:We are celebrating and doing some teaching with the kids about our founding fathers. I am sorry for the tragedy but we are not going to change how we observe.

No do punt skipping over the parts about slavery.

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Anonymous wrote:It’s sad. Another American parade was cut short today by a mass murder! Few people were at our parade and everyone was sad.

This isn’t the county I want to celebrate. We have to be better than this.

Name a weekend there isn’t a shooting or a 4+ person “mass murder” shooting in Chicago. Feel free to go back over 60 years.

And how does that lessen the tragedy of this mass shooting? Should just shrug off the mass murder in Highland Park yesterday?

Honest question. You always bring up other gun violence when there’s a mass shooting as some kind of defense and it makes zero sense to me.

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Anonymous wrote:Very patriotic. Lots of people - kids, grandkids, pets. Our neighborhood honored our vets as they always do - they paraded at the front of the parade.

Impressive fireworks display later tonight - as always.

Our neighborhood represents people from nearly every state... very few born and raised in the area. But we all have one thing in common - proud to be American.

+1 same for our neighborhood!

+2
Lots of celebrating and fun.

So you are celebrating people getting shot?

Typical right wing denial. "Didn't happen to me so who cares."

Every day, there are tragedies. Banality of evil and all that. But, only the mentally ill cancel all their plans to sit in mourning over daily shootings that dont involve them. A normal and healthy behavior is to continue on with your celebrations. Im wishing you peace, comfort, and a good therapist.

+100

You are a f**king sociopath if you think that a person mourning the senseless death of another is “mentally ill”. Seriously, I am so sorry for the monsters you call children that you are raising.

Whoa. Pls bring this response of yours to your next therapy session.

That you think it’s weird for one person to be bothered by another person being shot to death is just disgusting. Your callousness is truly pathological. You don’t need therapy, you need to be kept away from other people, esp children

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Anonymous wrote:It’s sad. Another American parade was cut short today by a mass murder! Few people were at our parade and everyone was sad.

This isn’t the county I want to celebrate. We have to be better than this.

Name a weekend there isn’t a shooting or a 4+ person “mass murder” shooting in Chicago. Feel free to go back over 60 years.

And how does that lessen the tragedy of this mass shooting? Should just shrug off the mass murder in Highland Park yesterday?

Honest question. You always bring up other gun violence when there’s a mass shooting as some kind of defense and it makes zero sense to me.

It’s just a tired diversion technique. It make absolutely no sense.

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Anonymous wrote:We are celebrating and doing some teaching with the kids about our founding fathers. I am sorry for the tragedy but we are not going to change how we observe.

No do punt skipping over the parts about slavery.

4th is a celebration of independence from Britain. Not a celebration of slavery.