Posted on 07/06/2022 2:45:13 PM PDT by DFG
The Highland Park gunman who killed seven people at a July 4 parade previously posted gaming videos online where he shot at people from rooftops.
The eerie videos show 21-year-old Robert Crimo's gaming avatar standing on rooftops and shooting down his opponents in a game of Call of Duty.
This came before Crimo himself stood on a rooftop disguised in women's clothing and opened fire 'sniper-style' at the crowd during the Independence Day parade in Highland Park, Illinois.
Crimo killed seven people with his Smith & Wesson rifle and has been charged with seven counts of first-degree murder with dozens more charges expected.
In the video game posts, gun shots can be heard ringing out while players are heard laughing, yelling and directing one another. It's unclear which voice is Crimo's.
Violent video games like Call of Duty have often been cited as the motivation for real-life shootings by the NRA and gun lobbyists.
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Wow.
Okay, then...
Ban rooftops and ban ‘violent’ video games, and ban the shooters and ban crowds and ban parades and ban Independence day.
The guns are not the problem.
I love the COD game platforms and have never had a thought to do what this whack job did.
Not yet at least...:)
Yesterday I saw something on the news that showed a rifle on a tripod on some roof.
Was that this idiots gun?
Weird how the mockingbirds still aren’t saying what kind of rifle it was.
You look at the guy and immediately know what a POS. He deserves a bullet in the head. I don’t care about his social media accounts. He’s a POS and needs a bullet to the head preferably at a public execution and shown live on TV where they miss purposely hitting his feet, hands, legs, arms and after 15-20 shots (60+ if you’re in Akron, Ohio) and take the kill shot. I’d recommend 20 to 30 minutes.
That would send the proper message to these scum.
Agree. Time to be rough with these freaks. Swift public executions. Body fed to the pigs after.
Well, they did finally lift the social distancing ban so maybe for a split microsecond. / S
That was the best part of the plandemic.
“Violent video games like Call of Duty have often been cited as the motivation for real-life shootings”
I played Tiger Woods Golf, online for years, certainly one of the most docile video games. My game partner and I were playing another team and one of them started screaming at his little girl, who was probably around five. It escalated into him beating her, he was calling her every vile name imaginable, we could hear her screaming, the hits and the mother begging him to stop. It lasted at least ten minutes until he realized his earpiece was still on and he cut it off. I immediately contacted Xbox to report it and get help, they were ambivalent and said there was nothing they could do. That gamers personal information was not available. My game partner just happened to be on a Navy Seals support team and he tried to see what he could do, it was a dead end.
So a video game influenced a mass killer? Impossible! Inanimate firearms kill people! /s
Eerie? That’s the whole point of the game.
And you didn’t grow up with the bullshit the Left is pouring into the heads of kids like him.
Good thing playing violent videos have no effect on young males.
Smith & Wesson M&P15.
Damn...I forgot about the pigs 🤣🤣🤣 Good call !!!
Many young children have been beaten and even killed for interrupting their game addicted parent or parent’s significant other.
We have created/raised a generation of immature adults many of whom are not even or barely functional human beings.
It’s not the game that’s the problem though, anymore than guns are.
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