If The Suspect Was A Black Guy…

6 killed, 24 seriously wounded in the Highland Park shooting. A doctor present on the scene describes unimaginable, war-zone-like injuries.

The shooter, still at large, is a while male of slight built, around 18-20 yrs old.

The shooting is described as "completely random."

— Elizabeth Mika (@yourauntemma) July 4, 2022

... the assumption would be it was “gang related.”

JUST IN: The Highland Park Fourth of July parade was suddenly halted when shots were fired about 10 minutes after the parade kicked off at 10 a.m. Monday, sending hundreds of people running for safety. https://t.co/qNB7Ac1jRG

— Chicago Sun-Times (@Suntimes) July 4, 2022

Land o’ the free to be shot at. 🇺🇸 

In response to the mass shooting close to where he is at, IL State Sen and Trump-endorsed candidate for Gov Dan Bailey releases a CAMPAIGN VIDEO: “Now let’s move on and celebrate the independence of this nation .. We have got to get corruption and evil out of our govt.” pic.twitter.com/BNQuZhjl8i

— Ron Filipkowski 🇺🇦 (@RonFilipkowski) July 4, 2022

I wonder if the kids were listening.

‘Composed’ children helped one another as panicked adults fled Highland Park gunman: ‘They knew what to do’ https://t.co/m3QJYjG1uT

— Raw Story (@RawStory) July 4, 2022

😢 

Doors clearly are not a solution for mass shootings like today's, so what is the next proposal from Republicans to avoid dealing with the guns?

— David Pakman (@dpakman) July 4, 2022

Ban public gatherings, of course.

“Despotism, which is in its nature fearful, sees the most certain guarantee of its own duration in the isolation of men, and it ordinarily puts all its care into isolating them.”
— Alexis de Tocqueville, Vol. II, Part II, Ch. 4

This thread is 🎯👇🏽 https://t.co/QgChL4qFyG

— Asha Rangappa (@AshaRangappa_) July 4, 2022

Feature, not bug. How can the “right” government protect us from violence if we don’t give people the means for violence in the first place. The shooting suspect has been caught, as I write.  The dead are still dead.