Checking In On Independence Day

It’s Sunday morning and I am all out of whack, these extended weekends always screw me up as it feels like it ought to be Monday instead of Sunday. Anyway, how are the 2Gs celebrating this long Independence Day weekend?

That was just a handful I saw yesterday so I checked the Gun Violence Archive this morning and holy shit…..

By my count that is 16 mass shootings already during the first two days of the 3 day weekend and it even includes the somewhat rare Hawaii mass shooting, a drive-by with no other details provided.

There were a couple in Indiana, one significant one in Indiacrapolis with 2 dead and 5 wounded plus one closer to home with four “teens” shot in Fort Wayne. There have been 8 mass shootings in Indiana already this year, only 1 fewer than Illinois and of those 9 mass shootings in the Land of Lincoln, 8 happened in Chicongo.

The fact that most people haven’t heard a peep from the media about this tells you all you need to know about the suspected demographics involved.

Try to imagine explaining to the men, starving and suffering frostbite, at Valley Forge that the freedom they were winning for future generations would be squandered by their posterity. For that matter try explaining to them that their posterity would accept far worse tyranny and taxation than what they were rebelling against with many “Americans” demanding even more taxation and tyranny.

At least we still get to grill out and shoot off fireworks. For now anyway.