The Independence Day of the United States of America is the fourth of July. The day is celebrated with fireworks, concerts, parades, baseball games, etc. On Monday the 4th of July 2022 hundreds of people gathered along the streets of a Chicago suburb to celebrate Independence Day with marching bands, floats, and music. The festivity was suddenly shattered by gunfire. A 21-year-old man fired more than 70 rounds from a legally bought assault rifle at the crowd from a nearby rooftop killing 6 and injuring more than 35 of which one more died in the hospital.
According to data compiled by Gun Violence Archive, a not-for-profit corporation in the USA, this was one of more than 300 mass shootings this year.
We were shocked by the news of another mass shooting in a Texas school on May 24, 2022. In that incident, a teenage boy of 18 entered an elementary school with two military-standard weapons and killed 19 children and two teachers.
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This article was published in the Daily Sun on July 13, 2022. Please read the full article here or here.