Feinstein questioned why Elliot Rodger was allowed to own guns, and ripped the NRA’s “stranglehold” on Congress. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call File Photo)
Posted on 05/25/2014 2:29:01 PM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
Feinstein questioned why Elliot Rodger was allowed to own guns, and ripped the NRA’s “stranglehold” on Congress. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call File Photo)
Elliot Rodger’s shooting spree had Sen. Dianne Feinstein lamenting the “stranglehold” the NRA has over gun laws.
“The deadly shooting in Isla Vista is heartbreaking,” the California Democrat said Sunday in a statement. “Schools should be places of safety, not where students fear for their lives.”
Feinstein questioned why Elliot Rodger was able to legally obtain and keep his guns.
“We must ask ourselves if an individual whose family called police with concerns about mental health, who is receiving therapy and who has had several run-ins with police should be allowed to own multiple firearms and hundreds of rounds of ammunition. When anyone, no matter their mental health or history, can so easily obtain any gun they want and as many as they want—we must recognize there is a problem.
“Unfortunately the NRA continues to have a stranglehold on Congress, preventing even commonsense measures like universal background checks that have overwhelming support. Americans need to rise up and say enough is enough. Until that happens, we will continue to see these devastating attacks. Shame on us for allowing this to continue.”
Separately, Rep. Tim Murphy, R-Pa., pushed for Congress to pass his mental health legislation in the wake of the Elliot Rodger’s rampage in Isla Vista.
An effort to pass background checks and a package of mental health initiatives was torpedoed by a GOP-led filibuster in the Senate last year.
BRAVO, BRAVO, I hold law enforcement ENTIRELY responsible for this
having happened!!!! The STUPIDITY is UNFORGIVABLE!!!!
All of the media is calling this a shooting spree.
Law enforcement WAS WARNED a week prior by one of this young mans
psychiatrists, NO ONE IN LAW ENFORCEMENT checked to see if he
OWNED or was trying to PURCHASE firearms pure STUPIDITY!!!!!
No, Diane, you dumb, little troll.
The NRA had nothing to do with this. Guns had nothing to do with this. My guns had nothing to do with this. I had nothing to do with this.
The young man who did this is responsible this, and if ANYONE ELSE IS THE MAN WHO MADE HIM AND RAISED HIM IS.
SO I WOULD REALLY APPRECIATE IT IF YOU WOULD STOP ATTACKING MY CIVIL RIGHTS, ANY ORGANIZATION THAT STANDS IN FAVOR OF MY CIVIL RIGHTS, AND STUFF YOUR GUN CONTROL AGENDA AND **** OFF JUST AS YOU CAN, madame.
“the kid was a lunatic and his father and mother are the root cause.”
You got that right. There is a picture of him at seven years old with his hair dyed blond. WHO IN THE HELL WOULD DO THAT TO THEIR CHILD?
Do you have any idea how many times the police do a Wellness Check on someone to see if they are suicidal or otherwise seriously distrubed AT THE TIME OF THE VISIT?
They did not have any cause to execute a search warrant and so what if they found out he had guns...we are now going to take guns of anyone who has emotional problems of some sort...and WHO will decide under what grounds?
Police checking on his guns? They don’t even do that in Chicago or Detroit and look at the gun homocides there.
“They didn’t do nothing. I think the kid had been under the care of a psychiatrist since 13.”
Am I the only one who read his screed?
His parents are totally responsible. They divorced when he was 7 and shuttled him back and forth between two houses, until Dad’s new sweetie decided she didn’t want him around and Dad went along with it.
And abandoned him to be raised by a single woman and “World of Warcraft.”
Oh, you say they wrote checks to a shrink? Yeah, they did everything they could for him. Parents of the Year.
I just read that in an article someone sent me, they said he was being treated by “multiple therapists” that he had Aspergers (just like the Sandy hook shooter) and that he threatened to harm himself and other people before and that his parents even reported him to the cops and the cops did nothing. Just lovely. And there he was roaming around with knives, guns and a car. But of course that’s the fault of the NRA. Let’s kill the 2nd amendment so lunatics can kill using only knives and cars.
His parents bankrolled the guns and the car. If his parents had insisted he pay his own way through life he would have been riding a bicycle and using plastic knives pilfered from McDonalds. Guns would have been outside his budget.
You DO NOT NEED a SEARCH WARRANT to run a computer check to
SEE if someone PURCHASED, or RECENTLY PURCHASED firearms!!!!
A VERY SIMPLE computer check would have been a MAJOR RED FLAG!!!
“There is a picture of him at seven years old with his hair dyed blond. WHO IN THE HELL WOULD DO THAT TO THEIR CHILD”
He talks about the dye job in his 141 pp. screed. He was obsessed with being blond, as he thought all the blond kids in his school were better looking. He nagged his mom until she gave up and took him to a salon.
Totally his idea. Of course she could have said no...
Please, that brings a disgusting image to mind, could we go with FO instead for these people?
Ghouls like the old hag Feinstein rub their hands with glee when something like this happens.
She doesn’t bother to mention that the little psycho purchased his guns legally under both California and U.S. law, so her useless “universal background checks” would not have stopped him from purchasing these weapons.
She also doesn’t mention that half the victims were killed with knives, and the fact that the little psycho tried to kill additional people by running them over with the BMW that his liberal daddy bought for him.
The police decided he was a polite kid.
We have freedoms in this country. You can not jail pe0ple for what they post on youtube (unless you actually threaten the President). You can not commit someone unless they are an ACTIVE DANGER TO THEMSELVES OR OTHERS AT THE TIME OF THE POLICE VISIT. Police can not monitor every person in a city who is stupid, goofy, says threatening stuff or is off balance. You have no idea how many citizens that would be.
Of course, if YOU want to give the State that power to detain and hold anyone who might do something at some future date...change the law and oh, btw, you might feel “safer” in a totalitarian country where that is tolerated, all in the name of “public safety”.
I can’t believe how many people on this thread are screaming for the police—THE STAE, THE GOVT—to ‘do something!!!” so we can be safer. Hitler was very , very popular for making Germany “safer” and the Germans were very happy to see the sudden reduction in crime.
“The guy who shot the Congresswoman Gifford in AZ,for example, was worshipping a skull in his parents’ backyard. C’mon.
Rodger had another alternate facebook with extremely dark favorites and “witchcraft” under hobbies.
California already has all those laws and more. If a man bent on killing people wants a gun, he can get it in any state in the Union.
Feinstein wants to prevent normal law abiding citizens from getting guns. Btw, every weekend in Los Angeles there are 3 to 6 people gunned down under similar circumstances and it doesn't even make the local news. That's because reporting black on black or Hispanic on Hispanic crimes does not fit the narrative.
Let’s not blame the parents who raised him or the schools that taught him, the physicians who failed to catch his mental illness or for God sakes the psycho himself who committed the acts. I see they haven’t drug out the video game yet, nor are they vilifying cars or knives, just go back to the liberals bogeymen, the NRA. Second Amendment and guns!
are you sure you are not a Lib?? More lists, more registrations, more checks on gun owners...lock up and check the homes of anyone who is crazy...(and oh, let the police and the govt decide who is ‘crazy” or a ‘danger”).
I suggest you take your posts to a Lib site where you will be praised for your outrage that “NOBODY CHECKED AND STOPPED THIS GUN OWNER!”
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