Posted on 05/29/2014 12:48:10 AM PDT by Rummyfan
Mass murder at a sunny college campus in a beach town would normally be considered "newsy," but Elliot Rodger's massacre at the University of California-Santa Barbara last Friday is getting surprisingly little press.
This is not a good case for liberals: The killer was an immigrant, a person of color, and the majority of his casualties resulted from attacks with a car or knife. It makes as much sense to rant about the NRA as to blame the Auto Club of America or the National Knife Collectors Association.
Rather, what we have is yet another mass murder committed by a schizophrenic -- just like those of Seung-Hui Cho, Jared Loughner, James Holmes and Adam Lanza.
Yes, they all used guns. Also, they were all males. They were all college-aged. They all had hair. Those are not distinctive characteristics.
When the last five mass murderers share something that only 1 percent of the population has, I think we've found the relevant common denominator.
Rodger had been seeing therapists since he was 8 years old. Just last year, his psychiatrist, Dr. Charles Sophy, prescribed him Risperidone, an anti-psychotic. But after looking up what Risperidone was for -- schizophrenia -- Rodger decided "it was the absolute wrong thing for me to take" and never did.
(Excerpt) Read more at anncoulter.com ...
Certainly, and of course I’m generalizing in the classifications.
>> It is in projecting their emotional problems onto others where they start drifting away from the saner part of the bell curve.
Definitely. The emotional perspective is often the intolerant one. And for as long as we remain human, the vie for reason will never end.
I see big love problems in this guy’s worldview. This is asking for trouble.
No, not like a cartoon, but manifesting in ways we observe and perceive as behavior.
“Yes, they all used guns. Also, they were all males. They were all college-aged. They all had hair. Those are not distinctive characteristics.”
They were also all Americans. Why does America produce more of these murderers than anywhere else? Is our society breaking down?
We are simply are dealing with demonic possesed persons who kill.
Here’s another example where supposed perceived slights allegedly led to multiple murders:
Remember the good old days when someone like this was institutionalized.
Yes.
I grew up in an area that had a state mental hospital (adult) 12 or 15 miles to the west and a state school (children) 8 miles or so to the east.
In the 1970s due to a “consent decree” both were shut down (it took years) and the residents turned out into the community. Some of them were not equipped to live on the outside, but were “mainstreamed” anyway. One I knew of personally (her son was an aquaintance) ended up suicide by automobile.
The process may or may not have been a success overall, but its effect on the community was undeniable.
As with everything liberals do, it was OVERdone but they feel good about themselves so to the devil with “results,” “success” and such hateful conservative concepts.
We did have institutions that held them against their will.
Agreed that some of them were not nice places, and we could do better by them, but the public was safe from their predations and craziness.
Then there is the idiot liberal judge, who says they have a right to be crazy, and free to maim and kill the rest of us, and that we can’t do anything about them until they actually hurt someone
He could have written some of Obamas Speeches.
true all over NY and probably the country. It’s really sad. Probably almost all of the “street people” (not the homeless in shelters or social services placement in hotels, etc, but the people living in subway tunnels or the wood) would have been institutionalized. A lot of truly random violent crime (which is rare, but people die) wouldn’t happen. But we turned those people out into the cold instead of making their care better, and scratch our head when they didn’t get jobs, start families, and settle into society.
Indeed. Look at how the rabidly anti-military portray the military, as if people who join the military are repressed mass murderers looking for legitimacy. All I see is that the anti-military fanatics fantasize about killing so much, and are so afraid of their own sick fantasies, that they are blind to the real reasons anyone might have to join the military.
After 14 years in the military, I can honestly say that I've never had the desire to kill anyone or even damage property. I also have never felt a desire to hurt or kill someone when handling a weapon. But it is impossible for a leftist nut to understand these things.
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