Highland Park Il Parade Shooting Leaves Six Dead, Dozens Injured
By: J. Kim Murphy (Variety)
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A shooting at a Fourth of July parade in Highland Park, Ill. has left at least six people dead and 24 others injured, according to the New York Times.
Reports indicate that shots were heard approximately 10 minutes after the parade had commenced at 10 a.m. CT. Authorities have stated that they believe the gunman had used a high-powered rifle, firing from a rooftop near the parade.
Highland Park PD have described the situation as an "active incident." The police department of Evanston, Ill., a nearby town, has stated that the shooter remains at large.
While there is no known threat to Evanston residents, the shooter is still at large; and cancelations are taking place in an abundance of caution. Our thoughts and prayers go out to our neighbors to the the north. — Evanston, IL Police (@EvanstonPD) July 4, 2022
Highland Park possesses a population of roughly 30,000 people.
Highland Park's government has informed residents to avoid the downtown area, though its initial statement did not specifically reference that a shooting had occurred. The city posted the message to its official Facebook page at 10:45 a.m. CT.
"Highland Park Police are responding to an incident in downtown Highland Park. All 4th of July events have been canceled. Please avoid downtown Highland Park. Take shelter if in downtown HP. More information will be shared as it becomes available," reads the statement.
Highland Park mayor Nancy Rotering shared the same message on Twitter.
Neighboring towns such as Deerfield, Ill. have reportedly canceled their own official Fourth of July festivities since the incident began in Highland Park. Chicago mayor Lori Lightfoot has stated that the city's police department is providing assistance to Highland Park "to bring the shooter into custody."
"There are no words for the kind of monster who lies in wait and fires into a crowd of families with children celebrating a holiday with their community," Illinois Governor J.N. Pritzker said in a statement Monday afternoon. "There are no words for the kind of evil that robs our neighbors of their hopes, their dreams, their futures."
Chicago Sun-Times columnist Lynn Sweet shared a brief video of the parade's abrupt conclusion. The footage shows groups of people fleeing from the area. Sweet also shared images of noticeably bloodied individuals from the area.
Actress Rachel Brosnahan shared that she was raised in Highland Park and called the Fourth of July parade "a highlight of the year for so many families."
"I'm sick to my stomach every time news like this comes out, but I don't wish the pit in your stomach as you call your family and friends to make sure everyone is okay on anyone," Brosnahan wrote. "No words."
I grew up in Highland Park and this parade is a highlight of the year for so many families. I'm sick to my stomach every time news like this comes out, but I don't wish the pit in your stomach as you call your family and friends to make sure everyone is okay on anyone. No words. https://t.co/5dE7JB8Z17 — Rachel Brosnahan (@RachelBros) July 4, 2022
The Highland Park shooting comes amidst a series of devastating mass shootings in the United States. In late May, 19 students and two adults were killed by a gunman at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas. Days before, another gunman opened fire on a grocery store in Buffalo, N.Y. while livestreaming his attack on Twitch. Calls for stricter gun control laws have been reignited across the United States in recent months as a response to the sequence of tragedies.
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Young white guy set up a sniper perch and shot many people at a 4th of July parade in one of the most affluent suburban communities in the Chicago area.
Should be an interesting motive.
Gun love on the 4th of July, what could be more American.
Interesting the adjective you picked in describing the motive of this murder.
The median individual income in Highland Park is over $100,000. Not exactly a seemingly likely place for a mass shooting.
"The median individual income in Highland Park is over $100,000. Not exactly a seemingly likely place for a mass shooting."
It is if you're an unemployed shooter.
What meets your criteria for a likely mass shooting place?
Answer your own questions.
I can't answer, I don't know what criteria you use.
He's white so they took him alive. He is a fan of #45. Another young republican.
6 dead, 24 seriously wounded in shooting at Highland Park July 4 parade; "An act of violence that has shaken us to our core"
Multiple loud sounds at Highland Park …
Can we please steer the conversation back to politicizing guns?
In all seriousness, the amount of guns we have in the public hands and the daily occurrence of events like this is the fault of ONE political party.
The never Trumper David Jolley was on the tv a little while ago. He said, I thought quite correctly, that America has FAILED to deal effectively with gun violence. Failed. That is a realization that we have to acknowledge. What has been done hasnt worked.
What should be done John?
enact all the proposed laws about background checks, registration, age restrictions, ban new sale of assault rifles, etc and lets see in a couple years where that gets us . Doing nothing is not an option.
Those 4 items were discussed in the recent gun control law that was signed by Biden just 10 days ago, but they were not included in the law. But going by your sentence, as a new law was passed and signed then we should wait a couple of years to see what it gets us.
I disagree with waiting however. The common piece among all these shootings is a person did the work. I'm fairly confident that once again when they start to disclose the background of this latest POS, there will be several "red flags" that were missed or ignored. I don't think we can really wait a couple of years before they start to seriously look at the people who do these acts and try to find a way to identify them in advance. As well as insuring that all institutions are fully working to identify and prevent the formation of these people.
But those 4 items you listed, I do not believe that they would make much of any difference in this type of problem. Just banning the new sale of "assault rifles" won't do much of anything as there are how many million of them already out in public. Age restrictions already exist, this POS from today was 22. Registration, only will work with guns sold in the past 12 years or so, anything prior to that is there a paper trail anymore? I have several guns handed down from my father and grandfather which were purchased well before there was any restrictions, I even have one that was purchased thru the Sears catalog. Background checks? They are already done by licensed dealers, my complaint on this has always been that there are no teeth in the system to force reporting agencies to get the data in to the NICS system. And if you are implying the so-called universal background check, I am loath to allow the federal government to get inserted into intra-state commerce, I'm very concerned that slippery slope will only end badly for the American public.
You're not supposed to talk about that! Dealing with the person holding the inanimate object is much harder to work with.
So what you are saying is that the "new" laws are nothing more than a regurgitation of existing laws put out to pacify those who are afraid of inanimate objects?
Hand grenades and flamethrowers are inanimate objects too. Do you think people should be able to walk around on city streets with them?
Now you're finally catching on. Moronic way to go about it, but your catching on nonetheless.
You didnt answer the question.
There was no question. Just a stupid fucking statement.
There was a question mark at the end of this sentence:
Do you think people should be able to walk around on city streets with hand grenades and flamethrowers?
They are arms. Should the right to bear them on city streets be infringed or not?
And there is the stupidity I was talking about.
You are avoiding answering the question because your answer would open up a keg of worms admitting that this or that weapon should and could be banned. If flamethrowers can constitutionally be banned the why not semi-automatic weapons?
IN DC vs Heller the court found that the DC law banning handguns, an entire class of arms that is commonly used for protection purposes, violates the Second Amendment. Semi-automatic pistols are the most popular handgun for protection.
Doing "something" that doesn't work is stupid.
But it makes self righteous lefties feel good about themselves.
that "in common use " phrase , gets them every time .
hand grenades and flamethrowers are not used commonly though some could make then out of readily available items if they wanted , just like one COULD own a howitzer , its the explosive ammo that is the hard part to get without the proper permits .
When there is a sensible question posed I'll answer it. That garbage JR is asking is just that - garbage. It's about as coherent as Kamala Harris' speech in Chicago.
As long as non-automatic handguns remain then heller should be satisfied.
Heller references home protection right and observes that the hand gun is by far the most popular self-defense weapon. Of hand guns, semi-automatics are the most popular by far. Revolver are great for hunting but almost anyone looking at self0defence will pick a semi. That is why almost all cops and military carry them.
LOL a double action revolver does the same thing as a semi auto pistol does anyway , some fail to realize that , it just doesnt "look" as scarey to them .
Get better at shooting with a musket.
Semi-auotmatic handguns are not in common use in NYC. And our laws will keep them that way.
Welcome to Rikers - you will hate the food.
? you sure about that , or just wishful thinking ?
i dont have to worry about rikers or the quality of its food , NYC is a no go / drive through place as far as im concerned, nothing there i want or would like to see or need , so since i have no plans of going there , you have no worries about me . just as i have no worries about conditions of things there .
thats actually freedom of choice .
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( in a hushed , austrailian accent ) mates did ya hear all that ? crickey that was the mating call of the perpetually offended outback flannel loving barking moon bat , female of the species to be sure , and from the sounds of that one , that sheila isnt finding her joey anytime soon.
be careful mates , they can be very dangerous when in this situation .....
Gun ownership is low in NYC.
In order to say "the sorts of guns in common use for self defense" in reference to NYC you will need to be talking about guns in use someplace else.
We will stand by our muskets and slingshots.
debatable ,maybe
what i think you are ignoring is the fact that the in common use also includes those firearms carried by the police and other agencies or professions , they all carry them for self defense by virtue of their jobs .
So what IS the standard issue side arm for the NYPD? or the port authority ? or a simple armed bank guard or courrier ?
Lot more semi autos there than you thought looking at things as they are .
"We can be street wise, tough and smart and end our [crime] problem, or we can be politically correct."
https:// bit.ly/3ySdfKP
What party is that?
If you have to ask then you probably belong to it.
Well, damn that pesky old Second Amendment, denying a liberal utopia everywhere you turn!
We all saw New York give the Supreme Court, and all Americans, the middle finger. They were told their laws were unfair and instead of straightening up they doubled down on arrogance - and that's how the anti-gunners have always played. It's a new day and the left is going to have to figure out how social engineering went wrong. I'd blame free drug use and the 'me first' attitude but hey, ya'll seem fine with it.
Kind of like Cali releasing all that private info on gun permit holders there?
How to control guns under the new ruling.
Kick shit.
Shoot beer cans.
If you come to Times Square, retain a lawyer.
6 people are dead, apparently all adults.
Perhaps as many as 40 were shot, some of them drove themselves to the hospital or had someone other than an ambulance take them, so the number is not totally clear.
It sounded like the perp shot at least 60 bullets into the spectators.
Largely forgotten in the blame game is the ongoing crime spree every weekend in the metro Chicago area
You want to blame Chicago gangs for a shooting in a wealthy white community with a black population of about 3%?
ROFL
Just stop embarrassing yourself.
Not at all, given the particulars it was more than likely a millennial white liberal kid. If that’s how it turns out?…..
But he's not. He's a young trumplican. A big fan. Has pictures of himself at trumpturd rallies.
Exactly, he's like all the others dressed as Waldo at the rallies.
Would not be surprised to read in the news tomorrow that more people were shot and killed in the chicago metro area this weekend than were shot and killed at the july 4th parade. It’s happened very often and nary a peep about it. I wonder why?
Gang violence and random mass shootings are really two different issues.
Try and address today.
Yes, today is sad just like all the other days in chicago when people were shot. In fact, there were 971 people shot in the first 5 months of 2022 in chicago and i don’t recall you putting up any articles about that. It looks racist when you only put up articles about affluent people getting shot.
fuck off
Black on black crime isn't really a problem, I guess.
Or doesn’t really matter.
I'm going to start to delete off topic comments about black on black crime as trolling.
Hey, that only averages out to about 6 1/2 people per day shot.
Nothing to see here.
Exactly, this is all about white on white crime.
Okay, my mistake since you as the seeder talked about gangs in posts 5.1 and 5.2.1., I kind of figured if it was on topic for you, it would be on topic for me too.
Hmmm.
Mayor beetlejuice seems to agree with you.
Exactly right, the 9 dead among the 57 shot in this weekend in Chicago have nothing to do with this story.
Indeed they are. Gun violence killed almost 20,000 here in 2020. 446 or 2.3% of them were killed in mass shooting incident,
This past weekend:
CHICAGO -- Seventy one people were shot , eight fatally, in 4th of July holiday weekend shootings across the city, Chicago police said.
Nine of the wounded were shot in two attacks on the West and South sides: Four people in West Garfield Park Friday evening, and five men in Parkway Gardens on the South Side early Monday.
At least 16 people were shot, two fatally, in a violent eight-hour span late Saturday into early Sunday in the city, according to Chicago police.
A woman was killed and a gunman was among two others wounded in a shootout Friday night in Chinatown, the police said.
A man and another gunman were shooting at each other about 10:50 p.m. in the 2200-block of South Wentworth Avenue, police said. A 24-year-old woman was struck in the torso and was taken to Stroger Hospital, where she died due to her injuries.
A second woman, 42, was taken to the University of Chicago Medical Center with a gunshot wound to her hand, police said. She was listed in good condition. One of the gunmen, a 38-year-old man, was shot in the buttocks and was taken to Northwestern Memorial Hospital, where he was in critical condition.
Three people were shot, one fatally, in a backyard early Sunday morning in Grand Crossing on the South Side.
The victims were with people in the backyard of a house about 5:30 a.m. in the 7000-block of South Harper Avenue when someone approached and fired into the crowd, police said.
5 wounded in Parkway Gardens
A man, 24, was shot multiple times in the body and pronounced dead at the scene, officials said. Two women, 24 and 30, both suffered multiple gunshots to the body and initially went to Jackson Park Hospital before going to the University of Chicago Medical Center, police said. The younger woman's condition was stabilized and the older woman was in good condition.
A man was fatally shot Friday in Englewood on the South Side.
The 31-year-old was outside about 5:45 p.m. in the 6500-block of South Wolcott Avenue when someone approached him and opened fire, police said. He was struck in the arm and head and was transported to the University of Chicago Medical Center where he was pronounced dead.
Less than an hour earlier, a man was fatally shot in West Garfield Park.
About 5 p.m., Keishone Roberts, 29, was in the 4300-block of West Van Buren Street when someone approached him and opened fire, police and the Cook County medical examiner's office said. He was shot multiple times and taken to Stroger Hospital, where he was later pronounced dead.
Just after midnight Saturday, a man was shot to death in South Chicago on the Far South Side.
About 12:20 a.m., the man, 30, was in the 9000-block of South Escanaba Avenue when he was shot in the head, police said. He was taken to the University of Chicago Medical Center, where he died.
A man was fatally shot while riding inside a vehicle early Sunday in Brighton Park on the Southwest Side.
About 3 a.m., the man, 35, was in the passenger seat as a female driver was traveling in the 3800-block of South Kedzie Avenue when he was struck in the neck by gunfire, police said.
The driver then drove about two and a half miles to the 5600-block of South Spaulding Avenue, where she called police, officials said.
The man was pronounced dead at the scene, police said. His name hasn't been released yet.
A man was killed in a shooting Saturday in South Shore.
About 4 p.m., he was riding a bike in the 2100-block of East 71st Street when someone fired shots at him from a dark-colored sedan, police said.
The 26-year-old was struck in the head and arm, and taken to the University of Chicago Medical Center, where he was pronounced dead, according to the Cook County medical examiner's office.
A man was fatally shot sitting outside a residential building Sunday morning in West Humboldt Park on the West Side.
The man, 38, was sitting outside the building about 10 a.m. in the 700-block of North Springfield Avenue when he was shot in the chest and head, police said.
He was taken to Stroger Hospital, where he was pronounced dead, officials said.
Hours later, a man was shot walking in Chicago Lawn on the South Side.
The man, believed to be between 25 to 35 years old, was walking about 12:50 p.m. Sunday in the 6500-block of South Kedzie Avenue when a dark colored vehicle approached and someone inside got out and opened fire, police said.
He was taken to Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn with multiple gunshot wounds to the head, police said. He was later pronounced dead, officials said.
Other attacks
Nine people were wounded in two attacks on the West and South Sides.
In the first mass shooting, four people were wounded Friday evening in West Garfield Park.
Just after 9 p.m., a male walking down the 3800-block of West Monroe Street opened fire, striking multiple people, according to the police.
A man, about 25 years old, was struck in the back and taken to Mount Sinai Hospital in serious condition, police said.
A woman in her 20s was hit in the leg and taken to the same hospital in good condition, police said.
Another woman, 36, and a man, 41, both suffered gunshot wounds to the back, police said. The pair were transported to Stroger Hospital in good condition, police said.
Days later, a 17-year-old boy was among five people wounded in a mass shooting early Monday in Parkway Gardens, according to Chicago fire and police officials.
Officials responded to a call of multiple people shot about 12:20 a.m. in the 6500-block of South Martin Luther King Drive , a spokesperson with the fire department said.
The boy was taken to St. Bernard Hospital with a gunshot wound to the arm, Chicago police said.
A man, 30, was taken to the University of Chicago Medical Center with gunshot wounds to the body.
Two men, both 19, were shot in the leg and taken to the University of Chicago.
Another man, about 25, was shot in the knee and taken to the same hospital.
All five victims were listed in fair condition, police said.
Police say preliminary information indicates that the suspect may have been traveling in a black SUV.
A 90-year-old man was hospitalized in critical condition after he was shot Saturday morning in North Lawndale.
The man was found about 10 a.m. in the 1500-block of South Harding Avenue with a gunshot wound to the abdomen, police said.
He was taken to Mount Sinai Hospital in critical condition, according to police.
Detectives were speaking to a person of interest.
I could past more, but you get the picture, right JR.
Last weekend , 24 people were shot, five fatally
All they have is deflection and you'll hear nothing but black on black crime and this is a young white republican.
That's exactly what they are.
Exactly, only some firearm violence is worthy of discussion. Only 9,913 Blacks were homicide victims in 2020, while 7,029 White people were victims of homicide.
Last warning, this article is not about "black on black" violence. If you want such a topic, make your own seed.
Any further references to black on black violence will be removed as off topic.
“…only some firearm violence is worthy of discussion.”
True, and the death toll one may cite is entirely predicated on one’s politics. So easy to ignore the bodies buried and the families shattered in ignoring the bottom line…we have a gun problem.
They are simply too accessible, but no one has a fucking clue how to address it. One side considers the carnage collateral damage and the other side cannot coalesce a strategy…meanwhile the only thing we can count on is more funerals, more thoughts and prayers, and more meaningless kicking of the can down the road.
Some members prefer to troll when they've been told that they will no longer be responded to.
Don't pussyfoot around, put me on ignore and inform me when you do.
Geez, Drinker, when you list all that gun violence in one place it kind of makes it look like we should be banning guns instead of dithering around the margins.
If you can get a Constitutional Amendment passed.
Yeah! That's the ticket! /S
So you do get it?..
I get the irony of thinking guns make us safer!
What do guns do? In your opinion. Make us less safe?
Actually, the holiday we celebrate only exists because the French were screwing with the British.
Kind of like how Ukraine's fate depends upon the United States.
Of course guns make us less safe.
And that chart is suppose to say something ?
i see my state is it appears to be 3 or 4 as the most deadly , even though it has the least population .
like the "REST" of the story ?
Wyoming has one of if not the highest rates of suicide in the nation , and according to the state , 80 % or better of gun deaths are attributed to suicide , not gun violence .
Quibble if you want but suicide is not gun violence , it is a mental health issue . And the use of a firearm to commit suicide , pretty much says the individual had made up their mind thats what they wanted , and even then ,only about 90% of attempted suicides where a firearm is used , are sucsessful here.
so unless one is suicidal , my state is actually a lot safer from gun violence than most of those at the lower end of that chart .
and 10 year old data isnt exactly current events or reasons .
I wonder how many folks that include firearm suicides in charts like this support assisted suicide?
oh i am all for assisted suicide , but the devil is always where it has been , in the details .
Completely agree.
No, this guy was white and a fan of whatshisname #45
Just another day in America, a mass shooting, a number dead and more wounded, families destroyed, but what the hell it's America on the 4th of July.
Sadly it seems that we've moved on from Uvalde.
All these fools here want to talk about is killings in Chicago. What they apparently dont understand is that crackdown on weapons would help Chicago too. Many guns are transported from Indiana and other states to the streets of Chicago. A crackdown there would help Chicago as well.
These fools also dont understand how random shootings terrorize the population.
But we have to support gun love culture because 230 years ago a bunch of guys who grew up with muskets decided that people can have weapons that shoot a hundred rounds a minute. The shooter fired at least 60 rounds from a high powered rifle into a crowd of people, and did it in less than a minute.
Is this really what we want?
I guess it's easier to talk about gang shootings involving blacks than to discuss what the article is about, a mass shooting at a 4th of July parade celebrating the 246th birthday of our country and done by a white killer, and I'd guess that the vast majority of victims are white as well.
The 4th of July will never ever be the same for the citizens of Highland Park.
We'll have moved on from this mass shooting in a week or so.
Guilt-soaked attempted deflection.
The next American mass shooting doesn't usually take that long to occur.
No, we have to amend the constitution, any recommendations on the wording?
Amending the constitution is not feasible in the current atmosphere. We dont need an amendment, there is nothing in the one we already have that affirms a right to individual ownership of high powered, high capacity assault rifles.
I'm not sure what that means.
Does that mean there there is nothing you can do or do you aim to go around the Constitution?
Then have Congress pass a new assault weapon's ban.
Heller was decided 5-4 on strictly political and ideological lines. The idea that it is obvious that people have a constitutional right to own personal assault rifles is utterly ridiculous.
The next "liberal" Supreme Court should make that clear to everyone.
They have no such right! Only congress has that right!
BTW only the liberals vote for what should be. They have no use for the Constitution.
ROFL. The SC right wing justices have a right to overturn Roe v Wade but another court at another time cannot overturn Heller? lol, what the heck are you smoking?
SC Justices can make the constitution mean whatever they want it to. Just ask Alito.
They had an absolute duty to overturn it. It was un-Constitutional.
but another court at another time cannot overturn Heller?
Heller was an absolute confirmation of what the 2nd Amendment specifically says. I think the 2nd Amendment should be changed. Only congress can do it, not 5 activist judges!
SC Justices can make the constitution mean whatever they want it to. Just ask Alito.
That would be the leftist activist who tampered with it for 60 years.
I am not surprised you praise right wing Supreme Court decisions , but your belief that they "had to" overturn Roe v Wade is absurd, as is your belief that Heller needed to be affirmed because it is obvious what the 2nd amendment means. The constitution means whatever the current court says it means.
If the Heller decision was so clear cut, why was it 5-4 ?
You cling to the illusion that your right wing courts are not political.
From what I have read there is nothing in the Supreme Court rulings that would prevent such a ban.
Agree.
then they run into the same problem they had with the 94 one , consent co-operation , and compliance , outside their little urban areas , there isnt really much support for one once the details become known .
before the 94 ban which didnt ban anything because it grandfathered those in existance , and new ones were available once some cosmetic features that were required to be considered an AW were removed , they went right back on the market .
come to think of it , that dem AW ban of 94 can be directly attributed with making the AR type rifle so popular while it was in effect , before that , most people said they would pass on buying one . ironic that gun grabbers made the very thing they wanted gone so popular with the public that shoots or collects guns .
loosely translated ; We cannot amend the constitution in the manner desired because it will never pass the ratification process and it will be defeated .
SOOOO , what is left is to try and get legislation passed that somehow conforms to the desired definition of said amendment using legalese chicanary and double speak that a simple majority MAY be able to get passed .
problem is , that hasnt worked either .
I haven't.
Here is a twitter feed for the search "Robert Crimo"
robert crimo - Twitter Search / Twitter
Looking through it, not surprisingly there are those who claim to have found proof that he is "woke" , in other words a leftist, and there are those who show him in pictures at a Trump rally.
I guess it could be either, but what is undeniable is that this wacko was obsessed with guns, and the twitter material shows this.
Another young republican with kills under his belt. Like Kyle Rittenhouse.
Exactly, and "Awake the Rapper" had the tattoos of a white nationalist, the four tally marks with a line through them on his right cheek, red roses and green leaves on his neck, and cursive script above his left eyebrow.
You called it, identical profile.
Do you have a source?
I'm sure there are others, so dont press your luck.
I read that Crimo had no political party support in his 2019 campaign.
I dont think he is a liberal Democrat, do you?
He isn't. He's a young trumppublican
No, but so what? He has probably had a sick kid for years and wished the problem away.
Pay attention, we are talking about the father.
Both of them are trumpturdpublicans
That was an interesting read.
I don't se how anyone takes away that he was a Democrat from those tweets. I saw much more right wing clues. But really, the main issue here, besides his access to guns, is his derangement.
The question that comes to mind for me is - is derangement a mental health issue? Is it something we identify and treat or are there monsters among us?
It doesn't make it easy for America to sell its brand of "exceptionalism" to other nations of the world. In fact, I can't help but wonder why the emigration situation hasn't been reversed, and why Canada doesn't have a problem in controlling the flow northwards of the 48th parallel - those seeking to escape from a coast-to-coast shooting gallery. Well, I guess if everyone could have a gun to protect themselves it's okay to stay put. What a fucking way of life.
This trumpster clown is going to get trounced in November.
Bailey didn't have a chance anyways. He was and HAS been way down in polling. This won't really matter.
Kind of silly to think one statement would make such a huge difference to someone already trailing badly.
One of Bailey's major problems (besides being a Trump bootlicker) is that he sounds like a hick. His heavy southern Illinois accent wont play too well in metro chicago.
I also doubt that he will do well but I'm surprised that you think it is because the chicago voters are so shallow to be influenced by his accent.
You insinuated that he would lose because of his remarks.
I merely pointed out to you that he has trailed badly in the polls ALL ALONG.
In other words--he didn't stand a chance and his remarks won't be why he lost.
Maybe he uses a fake accent to find commonalities with the local populace? Kind of like hag clinton or hoho harris? Who knows, by the time he gets to chicago maybe he’ll be using a thuggish accent?
Perhaps if he worked "I ain't no ways tired" into a speech?
Or carries a bottle of hot sauce everywhere with him?
NBC News correspondent Ben Collins told the Morning Joe Crew that despite being a “Trump fan,” Highland Park mass shooting suspect Robert Crimo III is part of a deeper subculture that goes beyond politics.
Collins covers disinformation , extremism and the internet for NBC News, and was a guest on Tuesday morning’s edition of MSNBC’s Morning Joe to give his insights into Crimo — the suspect who was apprehended in the mass shooting at the Highland Park 4th of July parade.
He spent several minutes telling host Willie Geist and the other MJ regulars about Crimo’s disturbing online activities , and described in detail the online subculture that he says Crimo was trying to fit in with.
And toward the end of his segment, Collins took pains to point out that while “a lot of people want to point out that this guy was a Donald Trump fan,” the former president is not to blame for Crimo’s actions:
I blame trumpturd and the majority of his supporters/fans/enablers.
That's a reflex act, one in which your impulse operates in immediate response to a sensory stimulation without the interposition of consciousness.
I'm not sure it is as simple as blaming Trumpism. This guy clearly loved gun violence, and fantasized about it, so I am more inclined to blame our gun love culture than politics. Although there is no evidence at all that he is a "liberal" and at least a smattering of evidence that he followed Trump.
True.
And there is also no evidence to suggest that Trump had anything to do with this, nor is there evidence to suggest that the political leanings of the shooter had any influence on his actions in committing murders.
I blame both .
There are a predictable amount of psychopaths with violent tendencies in America or any other population. They may wrap themselves in an ideology or they may not. But whatever their backstory, here in America we make it easy for them to obtain weapons to act on their fantasies.
I think it was the love of gun violence and was disgusted with the people of Highland Park. They were just too happy and they didn't vote for his dad.
What kind of very special idiots think that this can be blamed on Trump, or that being a Trump 'fan' somehow is responsible for the actions of this lunatic?
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Well the asswipe confessed and said he had a second attack planned in Wisconsin.