This is the diseased brain we are up against.
Darren Bailey, the Republican nominee for governor of Illinois, has held multiple campaign events with the gun store at which the man accused of carrying out a mass shooting at an Independence Day parade in the state picked up the weapon he is accused of using in the shooting, which he'd bought online, Vice reported on Aug. 16.
Bailey held two events with Red Dot Arms, the gun store where Robert "Bobby" Crimo picked up the semiautomatic rifle he allegedly used to kill six people and injure dozens at a July 4 parade in Highland Park, north of Chicago.
Bailey, a Republican state senator who won the GOP primary in June to take on incumbent Democratic Gov. J.B. Pritzker in November, visited the store in January to meet with the owner, according to a post he made on Facebook.
"Cindy and I made some phenomenal stops in Lake County today," Bailey wrote, referring to his wife. "We met with Steve the owner of Red Dot Firearms in Lake Villa and then met with great friends and supporters at the American Legion in Wauconda."