Breaking news: A mass shooting has occurred at a 4th of July Parade in Highland Park, an affluent suburb north of Chicago. The shooter opened fire from a rooftop sniper style about 10 minutes after the parade started. A semi-auto “high powered rifle” was found, but no suspect has been apprehended. The suspect was 22 years old, white, male (what else?), with long dark hair., now identified as Robert Crimo, driving a 2010 silver Honda Fit. These shootings occurred in downtown Highland Park at the intersection of 2nd and Central. Victims were sent to hospital ERs over the two country region including Lake and Cook Counties. Some are listed in critical condition, others in serious condition. they range in age from 8 to 85 with several being children. Many more suffered minor wounds from all the shrapnel all the bullets sent flying.
A mass shooting on the 4th of July. What could be more distinctly American?
Justice Clarence Thomas who wrote the opinion expanding the Second Amendment, and the other five ultra partisan Republican Justices who joined his ruling are probably not surprised by this mass shooting on the 4th of July. These Justices wanted to foster more gun violence in America with their ruling: New York State Rifle & Pistol Association v. Bruen. Now they may be starting to see their corrupt and radical decision come to fruition.
A patchwork of 50 different state gun laws have been proven not to be effective in reducing gun violence, (with only Hawaii’s gun laws proving effective). But when it comes to federal legislation only the weakest of measures are acceptable to the Republicans, who are scared to death of the NRA giving them a low rating. The 18 to 20 year old mass shooter demographic is who Republicans in congress bent over backward to please, with their recent GOP dictated gun safety bill. Cowardly Republicans had balked at raising the age to buy rifles to 21.
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Highland Park shooting person of interest left online trail of violent imagery
Crimo’s most recent video posted to YouTube showed him in the aftermath of a school shooting. It ends with Crimo draping himself in an American flag. Another music video showed a cartoon depiction of a man wearing a shirt with his YouTube channel’s logo on it, holding a long gun and being shot by police.
UPDATE:
There was a shooting in Philadelphia this evening in the area of a fireworks display, and two police officers have reportedly been killed.
Just about the same time that the shooting happened, there was this confrontation with two U-Haul vans full of the Patriot Front White Supremacists.
This is turning into a very violent 4th of July. Just what the Republican Party wants for America, apparently.