Numerous people have reportedly been shot during a July 4th parade in Highland Park, Illinois, just two blocks away from a popular Lubavitch shul – The Central Avenue Synagogue.
Police and firefighters responded to the scene on 2nd Street and Central Avenue at about 10:15 a.m. First responders reported multiple victims, with CPR required for several of them.
Parade-goers scattered as gunshots rang out, leaving behind chairs, baby strollers and blankets they had brought to what they innocently believed would be a nice, peaceful outing.
A Lubavitcher bochur was at the parade running a tefillin stand when the shots rang out just a block away from him. His father, Eliezer Zalmanov, wrote in a Twitter post that his son called to say that he was safe and had evacuated to the nearby Chabad house.
The parade has been completely halted, with police now patrolling the area with rifles. There is no word yet on whether a suspect has been apprehended or identified.
Apparently he was a block away from the shooting and as soon as it started he safely evacuated to the Chabaf House.
— Eliezer Zalmanov (@ezalmanov) July 4, 2022
My staff and I are closely monitoring the situation in Highland Park. State police are on the scene and we have made all state resources available to the community. We will continue working with local officials to help those affected.
— Governor JB Pritzker (@GovPritzker) July 4, 2022
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Australia banned guns 25 years ago and there hasn’t been a mass shooting since. I don’t understand why Americans love guns more than their own family.
It’s called the Constitution.
L’havdil it’s the Torah sheh b’ksav of the USA.
A person has the right to carry a weapon for self defense.
Thugs shooting in the street, robbers, et al., are not shooting in self defense.
Australia also corraled people in COVID camps.
The Second Amendment of the Condition protects our First Amendment freedoms.
There are already over 400 million guns in circulation in the USA. If we force people to give back
There guns, only law abiding citizens will listen while criminals will keep there guns. Resulting in only
Criminals having guns and leaving good
people without the means to defend themselves.
You want to take guns from jews who need to defend themselves from anti semites, from women who need to be able to defend themselves from rapists, from blacks who need to be able to defend themselves from white supremacists, from seniors and disabled who have no other way to defend themselves from people who want to take easy advantage of them…there are many who hate and want to kill the vulnerable and they will find a way around your rules
וראו כל עמי הארץ כי שם ה נקרא עליך ויראו ממך
What could we do?
Well considering the reports that this was a rooftop shooter with a rifle, probably not much in the way of armor, etc., would help. It starts with the general culture of society. People don’t value life and are taught that everything is disposable or can be changed on a whim. Don’t want to be pregnant? Abortion. Don’t like your existence? Surgery, medications, etc. Take drugs to escape life’s problems, etc. No normal person would even have the desire to kill people like that–and even C”V if somebody did, they would know better than to act on it. I can tell… Read more »
Vote for candidates who support gun control. If these white men can’t access guns, then they can’t kill people. It’s basic logic.
People keep using this term “gun control.”
DEFINE gun control.
There are MILLIONS of guns already in the hands of MILLIONS of Americans.
They’re not going anywhere. It is IMPOSSIBLE to confiscate them.
So define what you mean by:
“Common sense”
“Gun control”
and all the other buzzwords people love to throw around.
Illinois is the 6th most gun-controlled (see what I did there?) State in the USA.
They have “red flag” laws. They have waiting periods. Highland Park even had “assault rifle” bans.
CRIMINALS DON’T FOLLOW LAWS. GUN RESTRICTIONS ARE IGNORED BY CRIMINALS.
Real easy to understand.
Now try substituting “black” for “white” in your comment. If you’d recoil in horror at the racism of such a comment, but feel quite comfortable with your own, then ask yourself why. Are you comfortable being a racist?
Chicago alone had OVER FIFTY people shot this past weekend. Not by “these white guys” to use your words.
Where is the international outage and concern? Oh, just another hot summer weekend in Chicago…
We need more guns in the trained hands of good guys and fewer guns in the hands of bad guys
Start with the young children learning firearms safety (STOP, DON’T TOUCH, RUN AWAY, TELL A GROWN-UP) such as the Eddie Eagle video. As they are old enough to learn safe handling including the 4 basic rules of firearms safety, drill those rules over and over. When old enough to learn (12yo at our local gun range) to shoot get plenty of practice to become a competent shooter. There are instructors who will give group classes or if you can do it take lessons individually. Lives are on the line, unfortunately. What’s awful is having no way to defend oneself or… Read more »
All these happening on Democratic run city’s!! wake up yedim !!! Stop voting for dems look what they have done it’s no longer safe anywhere!!!! Vote republican!!!
vote republican!!
What alternate reality do you live in? 😆
Israeli media says the state dept has reported there are jewish wounded
Mendy, the son running the teffilen stand is a really nice boy
Look. Yes it’s all constitutional.
I’m not sure how it would work in Australia, but if guns are confiscated here in U.S. I would think that we our American people will lose their minds. AND I’M NOT JOKING!!!!!
It stinks!!!!!
A friend of mine Not Jewish he’s a gun salesman…….And I’m not here to defend the Shooter. Yes! With all the detective and technology HE’LL GET CAUGHT, but on the other hand if a person has a gun, most likely he’s defending himself.
Just my thought.
Look at Rashi Korach Perek 17Posuk 13
he answers this . It’s not the gun that kills, it is the shooter
Cars don’t drive drunk and forks don’t make people fat.
It is unfortunate that as frum Yidden, we are quick to blame every tragedy on a political party. We must put lots of thought into what can be done to stop these acts, both spiritually and al pi teva. “Vote…” is not the answer. Tragedies like this have happened both under democrats and under republicans. In the past few days there have been shootings with several dead in Texas and Kentucky (very red states). Instead of actually doing anything to stop this, the politicians just play the blame game: “Oh, this is because the republicans appose gun control”/”Oh, this is… Read more »
Because the political parties want “gun control” measures. ILLINOIS ALREADY HAD “GUN CONTROL.” Nobody there was able to defend himself. The only one controlling a gun was the nut case on the roof with the rifle. By the time police got there it was too late. THE POLICE INVESTIGATE AFTER THE FACT. The Democrats are the ones who have stated clearly they do not want people to have the right to self defense (Second Amendment). There are plenty of Republicans who work against America’s rights as well (known as RINOs, Republican in Name Only). Unfortunately our “Community Activists” and “Community… Read more »