The terrible shootout on July 4th by suspect Robert Crimo, killing 7, and injuring 30 has shocked Americans and left citizens ashamed.
The man charged with killing seven people at an Independence Day parade confessed to police that he shot a series of bullets from a rooftop in suburban Chicago and then fled to the Madison, Wisconsin, area, where he contemplated shooting at an event there too said authorities said Wednesday.
The horrific parade shooting left another American community staggering with shock— this time affluent Highland Park, home to about 30,000 people near the Lake Michigan shore. While 7 people were killed, over 30 were wounded, some critically, and hundreds of marchers, parents, and children escaped in a panic and a baby was made an orphan that sad day.
This post went viral in America where a well-known man called Lakota Man from Los Angeles shared, “I’m so incredibly ashamed of my country right now.” Lakota Man pointed out reality when he said, “It’s not immigrants or trans people or abortions or teaching CRT — It’s. Still. The F…. Guns.”
I’m so incredibly ashamed of my country right now. pic.twitter.com/pJtzzSqL8f
— Lakota Man (@LakotaMan1) July 4, 2022
Hunter Stuart, a journalist in America wrote, “I ran from a mass shooting today with my two little girls in my arms. We got separated from my wife. We hid behind a car and then sheltered in the apartment of some good Samaritans for 5 hours watching swat teams from the windows. We are all ok but we’re angry, very very angry.”
I ran from a mass shooting today with my two little girls in my arms. We got separated from my wife. We hid behind a car and then sheltered in the apartment of some good Samaritans for 5 hours watching swat teams from the windows. We are all ok but we’re angry, very very angry.
— Hunter Stuart wants to stop mass shootings (@Hoont) July 4, 2022
Hunter also shared: “An email I just wrote to about 100 friends, coworkers, and family members, asking them to do something about the savage gun-bloodbath our country has become.
Posting it here in case others can use it. Not many resources are online for this kind of thing.
An email I just wrote to about 100 friends, coworkers and family members, asking them to do something about the savage gun-bloodbath our country has become.
Posting it here in case others can use it. Not many resources online for this kind of thing.https://t.co/qLyGLRjbGt
— Hunter Stuart wants to stop mass shootings (@Hoont) July 7, 2022
Suspect Robert Crimo is also known as Awake the Rapper. At the end of this sick video, there are gunshots and cackling laughter and he stands against the American flag grinning evilly.
Police identify Robert "Bobby" E. Crimo III (22) as the suspect in the Highland Park shooting.
According to reports he’s also known as ‘Awake the Rapper’.
Here’s a music video I screen recorded from YouTube.
YouTube has already removed his official account. pic.twitter.com/ntzpaYQvv5— Stephanie Hamill (@STEPHMHAMILL) July 4, 2022
New Jersey is one of the few states to tighten gun laws after they passed a package of gun legislation last week, echoing a parallel effort in New York according to the New York Times.
The newly signed legislation will make it more difficult to obtain a handgun license and buy high-capacity rifles in New Jersey, the latest in a patchwork effort by states with strict gun laws to work around a detailed Supreme Court ruling aimed at dismantling them.
The measures were approved by Gov. Phil Murphy on Tuesday. The New Jersey package, given absolute passage last week after months of thinking, will require training to obtain a gun license, outlaw .50-caliber weapons, and require handgun owners to register any firearms purchased out of state.
A lot of the gun laws are still in limbo and what is worrisome is the staunch holding on to guns, but why should everyone live in fear because some people are insecure to live without guns.