He Knew No One Would Expect a Woman Was the Mass Killer and He Was Right

How the Highland Park shooter understood the country he lived in, which allowed him to initially escape the massacre he created

I’ll say this about mass murderer Bobby Crimo. He knows that we are safe from the 51% of the population who don’t do mass murder. 99.9% of mass murderers are men. So he knew that the best way to escape his slaughter on Monday in Highland Park, Illinois, was to blend in with the terrorized crowd running for their lives — and to do so dressed as a “woman.” Because no one would dare suspect he was the shooter because, well, he was a “woman.” He had dressed as a woman, even as he was up on the roof, wearing a skirt and makeup as he fired off his 83+ bullets.

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“Bullets” is a polite word in this case. The ammo he used in his “high powered assault rifle — a weapon of war” — is able to blow one’s head off. On Monday there was at least one victim with half his head gone. A woman was missing much of her upper torso. Another woman had most of one leg blown off — by just one “bullet.” I want every network and newspaper to do their duty to the truth and f***ing show America what this really looks like. Stop blurring out the truth! When you do that you are liars. You pretend that by not showing the carnage you are being “respectful” to the families of the dead. WRONG. You are disrespecting the dead by not showing the sacrifice THEY made so WE can have a Second Amendment. Stop your b.s. and do your job. Show the world the real America in all its despicable violence. Legally-purchased guns with legally sold ammunition that has only one singular purpose: the utter annihilation of a human body with immediate decapitation and/or the vivisection that spills one’s innards out onto the sidewalk like raw mincemeat, organ after organ carved up and splayed for the little children at the parade to see. If millions saw the true horror of this, I am convinced they would March on Washington, encircle the Capitol and not leave until all assault weapons were banned or confiscated.

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Here’s what Joe Biden was able to bring himself to say: “I am shocked by this senseless act of gun violence.” Really? You’re “shocked?” What planet have you been on? There is NOTHING shocking about this tragedy. IT HAPPENS EVERY FUCKING WEEK! 310 mass shootings since January. There are now two mass shootings PER DAY in the USA! And you call this “senseless gun violence?” Does that mean there is sensible gun violence? What does sensible violence look like? 

Stop calling it senseless! This all makes perfect sense! We Americans are the main perpetrators of violence, whether it’s against each other, against women specifically, whether it’s invading other countries or letting our people die from lack of health coverage so we can build more sophisticated bomb-dropping drones while we round up babies and kids on the border and throw them into cages. We’re one of the last countries with the death penalty, we lead the way in destroying planet Earth, we pump over 60 bullets into an unarmed Black man in Akron simply because he is Black, he’s not human, and wouldn’t it be cool to see what a Black body looks like with nothing left of his body but bullet holes? This makes cops like this so excited they jizz their pants. 

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There is so much blood on our hands and there is nothing new about it. On the day after the Highland Park massacre, where was President Biden? Handing out Medals of Honor to soldiers who 50+ years ago killed scores of Vietnamese! During the ceremony Biden kept referring to Vietnamese as “the enemy.” I wanted to puke. They weren’t the enemy. YOU (the American government and its corporate sponsors) are the enemy. The Vietnamese never did ANYTHING to us. Instead of handing out medals, get down on your knees and apologize right now to the people of Vietnam and offer reparations — and ask for forgiveness from the families of the 59,000 American dead listed on that Wall, and instead of hollow medals, give all the vets still alive anything and everything they need. 

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As I write this, authorities in Illinois continue to refuse to describe the massacre as a hate crime. 

So I will:

HALF OF THE DEAD AT THE PARADE WERE JEWISH. SCORES OF THE WOUNDED OR INJURED ARE JEWISH.  

Highland Park is 33% Jewish. 10,000 of its 30,000 residents are Jewish. 

What part of this don’t the police or the media get? What are they waiting for? A post-it note little Bobby left behind on his parent‘s fridge? 

Yeah, I’m probably just overreacting. I’m sure there’s no connection. 

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Finally, the Mayor of Highland Park (whom the killer’s father ran against for mayor in 2019 and lost), admitted she knew the killer. “I was his Cub Scout leader,“ she said quietly. Yes, that’s how normal all these killers and their killings are. They are not outliers. They live on your street. Bobby lived just a few blocks from the parade his whole life. He went to school with your kids. The Charleston Mother Emanuel shooter played Little League with you. The Buffalo shooter ate where you eat, the El Paso killer shopped where you shop, the Dayton mass murderer pumped gas right next to you at the Shell. He is America. They are all America. And the sooner we can own this fact, the quicker we can find our way out of this morass. 

For now, this will not end. So go ahead and brace yourself for the next slaughter. 

It’s just a few hours away. 

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