Highland park IL shooting

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I want Aiden's law up for a vote in the House and Senate. I don't care if it fails because it likely will, but send up a bill to ban assault weapons. Any R who votes against it voted against little Aiden and his suffering. Put it on record and vote them out so we can get some sensible gun laws enacted. R's are standing in the way and we're all sitting targets.

And put Manchin, McConnell and all of them on record as to why the fing filibuster is more important than saving one more gd life. Don't come at with me, well we have a filibuster and this isn't how politics work blah blah blah. We're talking about people's lives at stake-everyone is a target now. This guy didn't know whether he was shooting D's or R's--it didn't matter to him so we need to take politics out of this, stand up to the fing gun lobby and get assault weapons out of the mainstream market and tighten up gun laws on the books--this guy slipped through bc his dad bought his gun for him. That's got to change. All of this has to change and if our leaders are willing to change it, VOTE THEM OUT.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I want Aiden's law up for a vote in the House and Senate. I don't care if it fails because it likely will, but send up a bill to ban assault weapons. Any R who votes against it voted against little Aiden and his suffering. Put it on record and vote them out so we can get some sensible gun laws enacted. R's are standing in the way and we're all sitting targets.

And put Manchin, McConnell and all of them on record as to why the fing filibuster is more important than saving one more gd life. Don't come at with me, well we have a filibuster and this isn't how politics work blah blah blah. We're talking about people's lives at stake-everyone is a target now. This guy didn't know whether he was shooting D's or R's--it didn't matter to him so we need to take politics out of this, stand up to the fing gun lobby and get assault weapons out of the mainstream market and tighten up gun laws on the books--this guy slipped through bc his dad bought his gun for him. That's got to change. All of this has to change and if our leaders are willing to change it, VOTE THEM OUT.

*aren't.

[Anonymous]

The woman who posted is Rachael Wachstein. She posted publicly on Facebook and asked people to share. You can look her up if you'd like.

[Anonymous]

Nothing will change unless you change it. Yes, I mean you.

When you think of the lives we would have saved if we’d kept the assault weapons ban and added to it, it makes you want to cry. If we’d banned assault weapons and extended magazines after Sandy Hook, look at the lives we would have saved.

Work, donate, march, and vote to change the laws. Because we all know it will happen again.

It’s the guns.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:That kids face in and of itself is a red flag. We don’t need more gun laws just sensible middle aged women in every gun shop sizing up each purchaser.

So true.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Nothing will change unless you change it. Yes, I mean you.

When you think of the lives we would have saved if we’d kept the assault weapons ban and added to it, it makes you want to cry. If we’d banned assault weapons and extended magazines after Sandy Hook, look at the lives we would have saved.

Work, donate, march, and vote to change the laws. Because we all know it will happen again.

It’s the guns.

[phone]

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I want Aiden's law up for a vote in the House and Senate. I don't care if it fails because it likely will, but send up a bill to ban assault weapons. Any R who votes against it voted against little Aiden and his suffering. Put it on record and vote them out so we can get some sensible gun laws enacted. R's are standing in the way and we're all sitting targets.

And when it gets voted down, can we then sue every Republican who voted against it when the next inevitable mass shooting by assault weapon has?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I want Aiden's law up for a vote in the House and Senate. I don't care if it fails because it likely will, but send up a bill to ban assault weapons. Any R who votes against it voted against little Aiden and his suffering. Put it on record and vote them out so we can get some sensible gun laws enacted. R's are standing in the way and we're all sitting targets.

And when it gets voted down, can we then sue every Republican who voted against it when the next inevitable mass shooting by assault weapon has?

As public officials, maybe they have indemnity. But could their organizing and supporting bodies like GOP / RNC be sued? And certainly, every pro-gun lobbying group.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This is from a Highland Park woman. She posted it on Facebook but I left her name off for privacy.

Here's a post from a Highland Park woman:
Bobby Crimo is NOT a Lone Wolf

On July 4th 2022 I was heading to breakfast at the Walker Brothers restaurant downtown Highland Park with my mother and 17 year old high school student. The rest of my family was on their way back from a weekend trip. I told my husband and my youngest not to hurry back for the parade but instead to be home by 2:00 pm for a backyard party with friends. At 10:00 am, my mother picked us up. We drove the couple of blocks and parked in front of a bagel shop. There was a series of loud pops when we exited the car. My brain processed them as fireworks. As we turned onto Central Avenue, people ran, leaving wagons abandoned in the street. In my head, I thought that they were going home since the parade had just passed.

My 17-year old kept saying that something isn’t right, people were fleeing, not just going home. It didn’t register until I heard the wails of people calling for their family members. We stood there for a moment and then it hit me… there was a shooting. We left the scene and began hearing from friends. They described the bodies in the street, the wounded bleeding out, the confusion and mass hysteria that swept over the crowd as they realized what was happening.

A friend of mine with military training ran to the dead, dying, and injured and helped as best they could to keep these people from bleeding out until the ambulances arrived. The shooter was perched on Uncle Dan’s rooftop. He climbed up a ladder in the alleyway and lay in wait. 6 are confirmed dead so far with nearly 30 wounded.

The shooter wasn’t caught immediately. The police seemed just as stunned and unprepared as the rest of us. The town went on lockdown as the police and FBI worked to uncover his identity and find him. When it was announced around 6 pm that the suspect was caught, his face and identity were known to me. In fact, had I been asked for a short list of people in the area who I thought had the potential and motivation to cause such harm and destruction in our community, his name would have likely been on the list. What I know for certain is that the shooter knew my name, address, and make and model of my car. He and his associates had doxxed me, creating a flyer calling me a dangerous Communist with my picture, name, address, and a call to action that I must be stopped. Why was I on the radar of a 20 year old kid and his band of hoodlum friends? Because I dared to counter-protest their Stop the Steal events in 2020.

I’ve heard on CNN and other news sources that there are only a few photos of the shooter with Trump Flags and that his major motivator was a love of death and destruction. This is blatantly false. There are multiple news articles from the Patch and Chicago Tribune featuring photos of the shooter at these MAGA events. I recognized him right away as part of the group of local angry white young men who had previously waited for me after protests, to threaten and harassed me, and came to a Protect the Results vigil on December 12, 2020 in Highland Park’s Sunset Park where they did the nazi salute multiple times and screamed the following at our small group through a bullhorn…
“We refuse to accept a socialist, communist and anarchist America. We pledge to stop a Biden led communist regime that will kill the American Dream and the traditional way of American life. We demand Biden Harris never. We will not stop until the Antifa scum and Black Lives Matter monkeys get put in their place. Enough of this Left-wing violence.”

The police were there. They did nothing other than tell us to leave the park at dusk when we were already heading to our cars.
In Northbrook, the Stop the Steal rallies were violent. People who I was counter-protesting with were hit in the head with thick flag poles by the future shooter and his associates. The police did little when their side crossed the street to confront us repeatedly.

I did reach out to the police and so have others. We’ve been speaking out about the harassment and behavior of local MAGA fanatics but have been ignored, brushed aside, or even made to feel as if we provoked them.

The shooter joined a group of pro-Trump and militia supporters in the summer of 2020 to intimidate residents with their aggressive “Trump Train” through the heart of the old downtown, the location of his future mass shooting.

The shooter is not a surprise. Don’t believe the news reports. Bobby Crimo was a known agitator and there could have been interventions before my neighbors' bodies lay strewn across the parade route. This is a fact.

He is a homegrown terrorist who flew under the radar because no one was willing to see the signs. There are others like him that are Highlander more likely in my opinion to cause harm and devastation in Highland Park and surrounding communities. We know their names. We know their history of extremism. They walk amongst us waiting for the next opportunity to unleash their fascist desires of control and death on our communities. I have called the police. I have called the FBI. I have spoken out publicly and I continue to do so despite making myself a target.

The truth is slowly leaking out as some media outlets do the investigative work that should be done. You will see that Robert Crimo wasn’t just a crazy person with violent tendencies, he was part of an organized movement to instill fear in anyone brave enough to oppose the fascist threat to our country.

He’s no lone wolf. There are a hundred “Bobby Crimos” waiting in the wings for the chance to punish liberal America and anyone who they see as not embodying “traditional American family values”.
I encourage anyone who reads this to do a little research on Bobby Crimo and his associates. It’s all there in news articles, photos, and videos. Yesterday was a MAGA-inspired crime against the community of Highland Park and humanity at large. I have put so much energy into trying to bring attention to this issue with little impact. Hopefully, some of you will help me keep the pressure on our law enforcement and community leaders to do something before the next attack.

This is why it is extremely important to talk about how Crimo is a MAGA Trumpist. I realize that the Trump supporters are desperate to hide this truth. But it is critically important that this attack be known as the political terrorism it is.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Nothing will change unless you change it. Yes, I mean you.

When you think of the lives we would have saved if we’d kept the assault weapons ban and added to it, it makes you want to cry. If we’d banned assault weapons and extended magazines after Sandy Hook, look at the lives we would have saved.

Work, donate, march, and vote to change the laws. Because we all know it will happen again.

It’s the guns.

[phone]

[Anonymous]

Rs mighty quiet here. They want us to forget and move on, as well, their party's position on guns, particularly the assault weapons ban, is indefensible.

[Anonymous]

This is the world the GOP wants. Everyone scared, workers are chattel to the oligarchs, environmental dystopia. It is really sad.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This is the world the GOP wants. Everyone scared, workers are chattel to the oligarchs, environmental dystopia. It is really sad.

They practically salivate at the thought of wild west shootouts. They love the idea of every single person being armed because bang bang - it's so exciting being a tough guy!

[Anonymous]

I’m not denying what the woman wrote about MAGa supporters, but why would he target a family friendly 4th of July parade? Aren’t these events all about traditional “family values,” often associated with traditionalists, old people, Republicans, pro-military types?

[Anonymous]

I’m also a North Shore resident. I haven’t seen the post mentioned above, is it in any of the local North Shore Fb groups? I’d love to read people’s comments on that post. I’m frustrated by some of the posts I have seen here in the Chicago burbs.

There’s another woman in a moms group here claiming she, her husband, and their 2 year old were supposed to be on a float, but they decided to skip the parade because of Highland Park’s gun laws. You just can’t argue with crazy. Another woman is asking how we can build giant brick walls around all our elementary schools.