<p>The father of the Highland Park parade shooting suspect insisted Wednesday that he intends to &#8220;hold [his] head up high&#8221; despite questions about his own role in helping his son buy guns and a cryptic conversation they had on the eve to the massacre.</p>
<p>The Daily Wire is not naming the suspect, who is accused of killing seven and wounding dozens, in keeping with a policy to deprive mass killers of the notoriety <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/why-daily-wire-will-no-longer-publish-names-or-ben-shapiro">studies</a> show they crave. But the 21-year-old&#8217;s father <a href="https://nypost.com/2022/07/06/highland-park-shooter-robert-crimo-father-speaks-about-son/">said</a> he spoke with his son the night before the shooting about a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/denmark-mall-shooting-leaves-several-people-injured-killed-in-location-near-harry-styles-concert-venue">recent mass shooting</a> in a Copenhagen shopping mall.</p>
<p>“He goes, ‘Yeah, that guy is an idiot,'&#8221; the father said, adding that his son declared, “People like that … [commit mass shootings] to amp up the people that want to ban all guns.”</p>
<p>The suspect was able to <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/officials-reveal-how-highland-park-shooter-was-able-to-buy-guns-despite-threatening-to-kill-everyone">purchase the firearms</a> used in the attack because his father co-signed his Firearm Owners Identification (FOID) card, which gun owners must have in Illinois.</p>
<p>The revelation comes after local law enforcement officials divulged that the suspect had already been on law enforcement’s radar due to a pair of incidents in 2019, including the suspect attempting suicide followed by an alleged threat to “kill everyone” several months later.</p>
<p>“At the time of the incident, [the suspect] did not have a FOID card to revoke, and did not have a pending FOID application to deny,” Fox 32 <a href="https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/highland-park-shooting-police-to-provide-update-after-7th-victim-dies-in-parade-shooting">reported</a>. “Then, in December 2019, at 19, [the suspect] applied for a FOID card and was sponsored by his father. At the time, [Illinois State Police] said there were insufficient bases to establish a clear and present danger and deny the application.”</p>
<p>The father took no responsibility for the weapons that his son acquired.</p>
<p>“He bought everything on his own, and they’re registered to him,&#8221; he said. &#8220;You know, he drove there, he ordered them, he picked them up, they did his background check on each one.&#8221;</p>
<p>“They make me like I groomed him to do all this,” the father continued, referring to those who said of those who are criticizing him for co-signing the FOID card. “I’ve been here my whole life, and I’m gonna stay here, hold my head up high, because I didn’t do anything wrong.”</p>
<p>The father said that he wants a &#8220;long&#8221; prison sentence for his son, adding, “That’s life. You know you have consequences for actions. He made a choice. He didn’t have to do that. I think there’s mental illness there, obviously. … I didn’t see a lot of it.”</p>

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