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This is the Daily Article podcast for Tuesday, July 5th, 2022.

I'm Chris Elkins with the Denison Forum, narrating today's article by Dr. Ryan Denison.

He is the Denison Forum Senior Editor for Theology and has written more than 400 articles

for the Denison Forum. At least 31 people

were injured, ranging from ages 8 to 85, and 6 have died after a gunman opened fire on a crowd,

gathered for a 4th of July parade in Highland Park, Illinois, a suburb of Chicago. Though it took

well into Monday evening,

police have arrested the man believed responsible for the attack. It marks the 313th mass

shooting of the year and is among the deadliest so far. The details are predictably horrible,

stories of children hiding in a dumpster, parents frantically searching for kids that got lost in the frenzy, and families making the trip to identify the bodies of loved ones they've now seen for the last time this side of heaven.

Initially, most thought the gunfire was just fireworks and stood looking to the sky for the bright lights of celebration while the bullets rained down from the roof of a nearby building.

As the horror that was unfolding began to dawn on them, the crowd frantically dispersed, seeking shelter wherever they could find it.

Most were successful, Too many were not.

The same arguments have already started again about gun control, Second Amendment rights,

mental health, and the litany of other issues that accompany tragedies like this every time

they make the news. Who knows? Maybe something will change this time, though I won't begin to claim that I

have any idea what that change should be. So here we are again, grieving for those whose lives

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