The Highland Park shooting punctured a big myth about mass shootings, HayesBrown writes.
, a suburb of Chicago. A young man with a high-powered rifle opened fire on the crowd; another seven people are dead and more than three dozen are injured.
In reading local coverage of the shooting, I was struck by the level of disbelief among residents that such a thing could happen in their community. “It’s just a terrible thing,” Don Johnson, 76,. “I never would’ve thought this would’ve happened in downtown Highland Park.” More telling is this detail from the newspaper’s report: “Johnson said his daughter lives in Chicago with her son and that he’s been urging them to move to Highland Park, telling her recently, ‘It’s safe.’ Now, he said, it’s clear that ‘it can happen anywhere.’”A world of truth was packed into those few sentences. Nearby Chicago, conservatives’
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