Highland Park parade shooter's father says he is not culpable for son's attack

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The father of the alleged Highland Park parade shooter, Bobby Crimo Jr., has told ABC News that he is not culpable in the Independence Day attack, in spite of having signed a consent form for his son to apply for gun ownership.

“I had no -- not an inkling, warning -- that this was going to happen,” Crimo told ABC News about the Fourth of July attack his son, Robert “Bobby” Crimo III, carried out in Highland Park, Il. “I am just shocked.”

Crimo claims both he and his wife asked their son just days before if he had any plans for the holiday. “He said ‘no.’ That was it,” Crimo recalled.

Crimo says he spent nearly an hour with his son in his yard the night before the attack talking about the planet. “Great mood,” he remembered. “I’m just shocked.”

https://www.yahoo.com/gma/highland-park-parade-shooters-father-140734855.html

[oioioi]

1. Right.. but sponsored kid's FOID card after cops were called twice because he threatened to kill

himself and others.

[PoliticAverse]

6. Yeah really. If you help a person with repeated suicidal episodes get guns...

you bear some culpability, even if just moral.

[oioioi]

7. "I had no -- not an inkling, warning -- that this was going to happen,"

Keep digging, deplorable.

[Kaleva]

2. The threat to kill his family apparently wasn't a clue

That the shooter shouldn't be anywhere near guns.

[ARPad95]

3. I call BS on this guy's narrative!

[onecaliberal]

4. He knew that little bastard was psycho.

[Baitball Blogger]

5. Society will decide

[Ms. Toad]

8. From the form he signed:

I hereby give my consent for this minor applicant to possess and acquire firearms and firearm ammunition and understand I shall be liable for any damages resulting from the minor applicant’s use of firearms or firearm ammunition.

https://www.ispfsb.com/public/Documents/AffidavitGuardian.pdf

The legal question will be whether he is responsible for damage done at age 21 by his son's use of firearms and firearm ammunition purchased while his son was a minor (under 21 for purposes of this form).

Morally - he's responsible. He acknowledges that he was aware of his son's threats, and that they were taken seriously enough that police removed weapons from his son. He claims the threats were taken out of context - BUT - that is not sufficient when you are authorizing your son to purchase firearms - he was on notice that the police took the threats seriously.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

9. The idiot parents of the Michigan shooter thought the same thing

This is similar to the case of the Michigan school shooter last year where the parents first fled, were caught and then charged with aidig the shooting by their child

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[Rhiannon12866]

10. If it wasn't for him, this mass murderer would not have had a weapon of wr