Three diagrams that show that even the safest US states are never far away from shooting

by Monday, the wealthy Chicago suburb of Highland Park was hardly more than the idyllic backdrop of bizarre John Hughes films such as "Kevin-alone at home".

"Something like this does not happen here," commented a resident when he counted his dead after a shooter opened the fire with a assault rifle on a parade on July 4th.

While weapons are not a new problem here, the spread of deadly weapons now forces Americans across the United States to worry who can endure those who are familiar with the horrific tribute of firearms in cities. There is no longer a certain place in the country - where there is more weapons than people - where "something like this" happens.

The state of Illinois, led by the Democrats, has some of the country's strictest weapons security rules and the ninthest rate of guns. The state forced universal reliability checks, so-called red flag warnings and requirements for safe storage.

none of this played a role on Monday when Robert Crimo III fired more than 60 shots on parade visitors with a high -performance rifle, killed six and wounded dozens more.

Where the 22-year-old bought his gun is not yet known, but it is said to have been bought legally.

The attempts by Illinois to ban assault rifles were hindered by judgments of federal courts. Nowadays, anyone who has difficulty buying one in Illinois after having not passed a background examination can buy a states in neighboring Red States where the restrictions are much more relaxed.

Analyzes showed that fewer than half of the weapons in Illinois actually come from the state, almost 17 percent from Indiana.

According to Gun Violence Archive,

there have been more than 250 mass shootings in the United States this year. Around 38 have been happening since a massacre in Uvalde, Texas, where 19 children and two teachers were killed on May 24th.

Only last weekend, when the United States celebrated its independence, were killed in mass shootings in several cities and more than 60.

Every mass shooting raises the same questions that are particularly acute on a day when the United States celebrates its freedom. Does the right to have such fatal weapons outweigh the right of others to life? Are the almost daily attacks at US schools, offices and places of worship to be paid for?

Republicans who cheered the latest judgment of the Supreme Court of anchoring the right of US citizens to wear them outside their home claim that weapons are free to clear the United States. But the increasing gun power has made the life of the Americans significantly less free.

schools now resemble prisons. Community members treat each other in overcrowded Sunday services with suspicion. In the meantime, the celebrations on July 4 had to be canceled across the country on Monday after unidentified noises, which were probably shots, caused mass panics.

like JB Pritzker, the governor of Illinois, expressed it, a "day of freedom" "which one freedom that we do not want to maintain as a nation clearly emphasized: the freedom of our fellow citizens without lifting daily fear".