Highland Park shooting suspect charged with 7 counts of murder

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Eric Rinehart, State’s Attorney for Lake County, Illinois, announced that suspected Highland Park shooter Robert E. Crimo III is being charged with seven counts of murder in connection with the mass shooting that took place during the city’s July 4th parade. #CNN #News

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  2. America is a battle zone. It’s interesting to watch the same thing happen everyday and watch them do nothing. Weird people.

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  3. He was on the radar and had knifes taken away before , how the f was he able to buy guns after that 🤬

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    1. @Juliemaria Riley you are not afforded a privilege to own a firearm it is a right period, fix mental health and family values you will see less violence, society let him down and media will pump this crap into your eyes till it’s all you see.

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    2. @Jerry McClure and again I’m glad I have freedom of choice to decide what protections I need for my own safety.

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  4. Since it was a legally Acquired firearm, was he a good guy with a gun? Help me out Republicans, this is your talking point.

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    3. @Tony your whataboutisms add nothing to the conversation. All you’re doing is shining a light on your exquisite lack of intelligence.

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    4. @Bradyn Lotterman he bought the gun in America, and, he’s a kid that can easily access a gun, and you support people like him continuing to do so.

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  5. All these people who reference the family of such individuals should be the first to recognize the warning signs to call attention to their troubled kids. In my experience, families should be the first to know, but often they are the last to know and write off the aberrant behavior as “just like Johnny to do that”. Then the behavior escalates unless a child accepts the guidance of some positive role model. Honestly, more often than not, such children arise out of dysfunctional families where parents are often so self-involved with their own issues that they have not given sufficient guidance and support to the kids. By the time the child is in early adolescence, such kids are not accessible to any corrective influences the parents may attempt. This appears to be someone who was born with a risk-averse temperament with insufficiently involved parents who likely could have recognized the kid was looking for positive support, but gradually found such support from other dysfunctional influences on the internet. Clearly, his failure to sand down serial numbers from the gun and to stay in the area hours after the incident suggest he unconsciously sought to gain attention for what he had done. Even the female clothing suggests that, other than a disguise, there is some sexual ambivalence or identity diffusion. When will we get some common sense background checks and a halt to access to any weapon that can be converted to a rapid fire firearm!!!! We are being led by people who are not being guided by reason and such weapons would never be considered by any sportsman!

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  6. American exceptionalism has been replace with American Absurdism.
    It is either all or nothing, which ends the proven pathway of communication, cooperation and compromise.

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  8. In 1994, Congress passed the Public Safety and Recreational Firearms Use Protection Act — commonly called the assault weapons ban.

    It prohibited the manufacture or sale for civilian use of certain semi-automatic weapons. The act also banned magazines that could accommodate 10 rounds or more.

    In 2004, the Republican led Congress refused to renew the 10 year assault weapons ban after it expired.

    Before the 1994 ban:

    From 1981 – the earliest year in our analysis – to the rollout of the assault weapons ban in 1994, the proportion of deaths in mass shootings in which an assault rifle was used was lower than it is today.

    Yet in this earlier period, mass shooting deaths were steadily rising. Indeed, high-profile mass shootings involving assault rifles – such as the ki//ing of five children in Stockton, California, in 1989 and a 1993 San Francisco office attack that left eight victimsDead – provided the impetus behind a push for a prohibition on some types of gun.

    During the 1994-2004 ban:

    In the years after the assault weapons ban went into effect, the number of deaths from mass shootings fell, and the increase in the annual number of incidents slowed down. Even including 1999’s Columbine High School massacre – the deadliest MassShooting during the period of the ban – the 1994 to 2004 period saw lower average annual rates of both mass shootings and deaths resulting from such incidents than before the ban’s inception.

    From 2004 onward:

    The data shows an almost immediate – and steep – rise in mass shooting deaths in the years after the assault weapons ban expired in 2004.

    Breaking the data into absolute numbers, between 2004 and 2017 – the last year of our analysis – the average number of yearly deaths attributed to mass shootings was 25, compared with 5.3 during the 10-year tenure of the ban and 7.2 in the years leading up to the prohibition on assault weapons.

    Saving hundreds of lives

    We calculated that the risk of a person in the U.S. dying in a mass shooting was 70% lower during the period in which the assault weapons ban was active. The proportion of overall gun homicides resulting from mass shootings was also down, with nine fewer mass-shooting-related fatalities per 10,000 shooting deaths.

    Taking population trends into account, a model we created based on this data suggests that had the federal assault weapons ban been in place throughout the whole period of our study – that is, from 1981 through 2017 – it may have prevented 314 of the 448 mass shooting deaths that occurred during the years in which there was no ban.

    Michael J. Klein, New York University
    The Conversation
    Published: June 8, 2022

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    1. Unfortunately the same kinds of studies found the opposite effects, also the massive increase of overall violence and murder for years and the overall trend of gun deaths falling.

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    3. @Dante Pearl most? Be like David J Klein and back that up. Mine holds 10, 11 if I carry one in the chamber. But a rational gun owner doesn’t carry one in the chamber.

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  9. Oh he’s headed for a rude awakening. They’re already planning what to do with him in jail, LOL

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  10. This will only get worse until more people start caring about what happens to their fellow Americans.

    Patriotism has nothing to do with waving a flag or standing for the National anthem. Because those are all things you can literally train a mon.key to do. And if you can train a mon.key to do it, it’s probably not patriotic at all.

    True Patriotism is about service, shared sacrifice, unselfishness, and caring about what happens to your fellow American citizens. Because it matters.

    Like MLK said: “We may have all arrived here on different ships, but we’re all in the same boat now.”

    Semper Fi..

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  12. It would be nice to see all of the charges prosecuted instead of a plea deal even if that means the same effective sentence. Honor each person’s loss.

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  13. *Trump made a statement! Watch the video you will be shocked* EVERYDAYS.ML

    Mr.Paul – respect for you.

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  14. I just don’t understand law enforcement mentality. It’s great that Crimo was apprehended, but why does the PD make it sound like they’re accepting an award?? They’re even getting applause. There’s nothing to celebrate here. The same thing happened when OJ got arrested. LAPD came out and made it sound like they had just won best picture of the year at the Oscars. This is a tragedy no matter how U look at it.

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    1. The police deserve a applause. They caught the shooter and you are still crying. What is wrong with you!

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    2. @Lil Monkey they caught the shooter after he killed 7 people and injured 25. I’m not blaming them for that entirely because there’s 400m guns in that terrible country, but no applause either.

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  16. I was really worried. For a moment there, I thought the murderer’s Second Amendment rights had been violated.

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    1. @Janzzen how do you feel about the shooter being a left wing extremist? And why isn’t the liberal media outlets reporting it?

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    2. @Kyle Skeins
      As far is known now, he had no political affiliation.
      Where did you get your knowledge from?

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  17. Y’all see how these laws actually “protect” the attacker, criminals or corrupt individuals involved.
    You notice this State Attorney said, “should he be convicted” – even this mass killing doesn’t have a direct outcome🤔

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  18. After this holiday weekend of mass shootings, I fully expect the UN and/or EU to issue travel advisories about the probability of death by gunfire in the US.

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  20. Supreme court protects right to use a gun that orphans a toddler, but forces a pregnant woman to deliver a child at peril of her own life. Sick American justice.

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