DUmp on the latest shootings in California.

[dutch508]

bigdarryl (10,784 posts) http://sync.democraticunderground.com/10024994103

Here we go again with the he(Santa Barbara)killer was mentally ill bullshit
 MSNBC pundits already calling this boy that went on a shooting spree in Santa Barbara mentally ill.Wonder what they would call him if he was a black boy can you say THUG!!! I'm just saying

 

I am not sure what you are trying to say... is it RACIST!!!!? Once you figure out he is a fellow leftist you will change your tune to "He was troubled and needed help but REAGAN emptied all the loony bins!"

sharp_stick (10,683 posts)
2. They'd probably just assume he

was a gangbanger and not even report it...unless of course he killed a white guy.

RACIST!!!

AnalystInParadise (1,032 posts)
5. Why are you injecting race into this?

The killer was not white, he is the stepson of the director. His mom is Moroccan in origin. I may be incorrect, there is a lot of confusion swirling around. I have now heard he is the son and the stepson.

Oh... reverse RACIST!!!   but he was a minority... so....

muriel_volestrangler (71,986 posts)
18. The Moroccan is his stepmother

That says his mother was Asian (which, for someone born in the UK, will normally mean ancestry from the Indian subcontinent).

****! well, 'asian' in the UK usually means Muslim... just sayin...

Ichingcarpenter (30,935 posts)
8. I do wonder about prescribed medication

32 School shooters/school related violence committed by those under the influence of psychiatric drugs

AND---- we are off to "He was a troubled youth..."

gvstn (1,311 posts)
11. This post on Joe My God

Say he was being treated by several therapists. They called police on him when they saw some of his videos a few weeks ago. A social worker also called police on him last week. I think he may have been mentally ill.

http://www.joemygod.blogspot.com/2014/05/california-gunman-slays-six-after.html#disqus_thread

We will soon turn to "Guns are Bad and need to be banned!"

[Linda]

From the sounds of it ...mental illness is bad and needs to be banned.

[miskie]

Comeon, primitives...

The ONLY reason everyone is jumping on the 'mentally ill' bandwagon is that this kid is a total Hollywood lib asshat.

If you took this exact same story and replaced his car with an SUV, and the location to Alabama, he would be a gun-totin' teabaggin' redneck.

[thundley4]

There might have been mental illness in regards to his repressed gayness, but he also comes across as an arrogant entitled asshole .


I wonder how that could have happened in wonderfully liberal and open Hollyweird?

[GOBUCKS]

So this guy was shooting up the place just because of being rejected by some women?? That isn't the reason. If it was, then stevenumbers is liable to carpet bomb Florida.

[dutch508]

bemildred (74,389 posts)
30. Isla Vista shootings: Parent had warned police about son's threats Isla Vista shootings

A parent of a college student suspected of a shooting rampage in Isla Vista near UC Santa Barbara had become concerned about videos he was posting and alerted police a month ago, according to a source close to the family.

The source, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, said the family of Elliot Rodger made the report to police last month. It was unclear which videos they saw because Rodger appeared to have posted several on YouTube in which he talks about his alienation and threatens violence.

http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-isla-vista-shooting-parent-warning-police-son-threats-20140524-story.html

They knew. They were warned. It's California. They did nothing.

[thundley4]

They knew. They were warned. It's California. They did nothing.

Maybe the cops were afraid to do anything because of who his parents are?

[BlueStateSaint]

Maybe the cops were afraid to do anything because of who his parents are?

Plus, doesn't California have strict gun control?  How could something like this happen there?