We Got The Independence Day We Deserve This Time

A violent country gets a violent holiday.

Jessica Wildfire
5 min readJul 4, 2022

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Photo by Marek Studzinski on Unsplash

It happened on the Fourth of July.

A man somewhere between 18 and 20 years old climbed up onto a roof with an assault rifle. Then he opened fire on a parade. His bullets went into dozens of people, killing six of them.

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