The Fox host introduced the controversial shot during his Tuesday night show by first taking a picture of 21-year-old Robert Crimo, the suspected killer in Monday’s massacre, and saying he wouldn’t “sell a gun to that guy.” “Look at Robert ‘Bobby’ Krimo,” Mr. Carlson said. “Are you going to sell this guy a gun? Does it look like a walnut? Of course he does.” Earlier in the day, authorities announced that Krimo had been charged with seven counts of first-degree murder, with more charges expected to follow in the coming days. If convicted, he faces life in prison without the possibility of parole, Illinois State’s Attorney Eric Rinehart said. The host then asked viewers why the accused gunman didn’t raise the alarm before the Independence Day shooting, despite the host noting in the same segment how police were called to the 21-year-old’s home twice in 2019. his threats to harm himself and kill his family. “Maybe he didn’t stand out,” the host began. “Maybe because there are a lot of young men in America who suddenly look and act a lot like this guy.” Mr. Carlson then went on to offer a number of factors that he believed were driving forces behind the alleged actions of Mr. Crimo and many other “angry” young men at the center of mass shootings in the U.S., including social media, video games. porn and drugs, more specifically with “government approved weed” as a major factor. “They have a high price on government-sanctioned weed, ‘smoke some more, it’s good for you,’” Mr. Carlson said. He also claimed, without providing any hard numbers or statistics, that Mr. Crimo, like so many young men, is “numb from the endless psychedelic drugs handed out in every school in the country by scumbags posing as counselors.” But the moment that seems to have struck a chord with the Twitterverse was when the far-right commentator said that women, specifically their so-called insistence on reminding their male counterparts about ‘privilege’, were driving young men crazy.” “They are angry. They know their lives will not be better than their parents’. It will be worse. This is only guaranteed,” he said. “And yet the authorities in their lives – mostly women – never stop lecturing them about their so-called privilege. “You’re a man, you’re privileged!” The remarks, which quickly drew the ire of online commentators, went further to almost defend the so-called “remembered”, mostly male mass shooters, after saying: “Imagine that. Try to imagine an unhealthier, more unhappy life than this. So many young men in America are going crazy. Are you surprised?” Reaction to Mr. Carlson’s comments Tuesday night was swift to condemn far-right violence, with some pointing out how conservative pundits like Mr. Tucker will find a way to blame gun violence on just about everything under the sun, except from weapons. “98% of mass shootings are committed by men, but Tucker Carlson still found a way to blame women. You can’t make it,” @TheScottCharles tweeted, while another listed all the things the Fox host was willing to blame for mass shootings — “marijuana, SSRIs, social media, porn, video games, school counselors , women (seriously)” – and all the things the expert wouldn’t note, including the guns or the accused shooter. Others were more succinct in their jabs at Mr. Carlson – “It’s hard to overstate how much these people hate women” – while another user wistfully noted how grateful he was that Mr. Carlson and his Fox News colleague, Laura Ingraham, who similarly pinned marijuana as the cause behind mass shootings, wouldn’t be the ones tasked with telling 2-year-old boy Aiden, who was orphaned by the Independence Day shooting because his parents were no longer in life. “We’re very lucky that Laura Ingraham and Tucker Carlson will NOT be the ones explaining to two-year-old Aiden that he lost his parents to marijuana use and overbearing women.”
