Maybe it’s too late for this country and guns. Maybe the tipping point was already passed a while ago. Within the first 185 days of 2022, there have been an average of 11 mass shootings a week, reports the Independent. Is anybody here an insurance actuary? It seems to me that on these facts the chances of getting killed or maimed in the streets by a lunatic have gone up substantially. Maybe a kind of liability insurance should be sold, so when it’s your turn to heal up in the hospital from the latest rampage, you’re covered. Or, your relatives can bury you and go on.
Going along these lines, a new branch of criminal forensics and psychology needs to be developed, call it Mass Shooter Profiling. It could be like the movie Minority Report, where you can identify a person of interest before a crime is even committed.
That might be the only way to save us, is to develop the ability to spot the assassins before they kill, because it’s a sure bet that the Republicans are totally opposed to taking weapons off the streets. If we know one thing, that’s the thing we know. They decided a long time ago that there was more social utility to appeasing the gun lobby and living with “x” number of victims per year, than in changing the gun control laws.
Every single time one of these things happens, we read the tragic first person profiles. The New York Times is running a piece on a 76-year-old man who didn’t want to go to the parade today, but he couldn’t be left alone, so he was bundled into the car and taken along. Now he’s dead.
Here’s another image.
A friend took his kids to July 4th Parade in Highland Park today. His son has special needs.
When shots rang out, they ran for their lives, the dad pushing his grown son's wheelchair–which at one point tumbled over.
On America's day, what has become a sickeningly American story.— David Axelrod (@davidaxelrod) July 4, 2022
We can’t even go out, as a culture, and celebrate our collective heritage, our nation’s birthday, without some of us winding up dead.
And who is the guy (and it is always a guy) who did it today?
Several of these videos have been up for months. Crimo used to perform under as Awake the Rapper and received a large number of streams on YouTube before they were removed from YouTube for unclear reasons. According to a fan page, Crimo stopped producing music after that.
— steven monacelli (@stevanzetti) July 4, 2022
The symbol used in his videos appears to be something he used during his rap career. Unclear to me if it's associated with anything else. pic.twitter.com/gxkfdOToJP
— steven monacelli (@stevanzetti) July 4, 2022
A lot of people have been sharing a photo of Crimo attending a Trump rally. I've also seen a video of him waiting to see Trump's motorcade. As someone who reports on extremism, I would encourage people not to jump to conclusions about the motivation.https://t.co/oNyykQZn0J
— steven monacelli (@stevanzetti) July 4, 2022
Crimo does appear to have been active in some right wing political events. See this photo to the left, in which he is wearing the same shirt seen in one of his videos at a right wing protest. pic.twitter.com/nnfJR084DI
— steven monacelli (@stevanzetti) July 4, 2022
We’ll all know much more in the days to come.
I think this guy has it nailed.
Some people are just losers, and they lack the intelligence, the empathy, and the imagination to do something productive with their life. Cowards and losers.
— Hunter Stuart at RSAC this week (@Hoont) July 4, 2022
I think it is as simple as that. Many people face challenging circumstances, either growing up or later on as adults. We deal with them. We overcome them and build something, be it ever so humble.
Some people can’t. And so those people go of their nuts from time to time and utilize the only “power” they ever will have and that only temporarily: they buy a killing machine and they kill innocent people with it, until they’re caught or killed themselves. And that is the totality of their “contribution” to this world, a temporary, violent blip in an otherwise uneventful and banal existence.
This is tragedy, American style.
Great article, thank you. You should see the comments about this guy on 4Chan. Scary, scary stuff. Google “Crimo 4Chan” to see it for yourself.
Other Countries Had Mass Shootings. Then They Changed Their Gun Laws.
Britain, Australia, Canada, New Zealand, Norway: All had a culture of gun ownership, and all tightened restrictions anyway. Their violence statistics now diverge sharply from those of the U.S.
Always a guy? Well, yeah. Gals leave pipe bombs ala Marjie Kooky Pants.