Posted on 06/11/2014 5:24:32 AM PDT by rellimpank
SEATTLE — The man charged with killing one student and wounding two others at a small Seattle college last week had stopped taking his medications because he "wanted to feel the hate," and he detailed his plans in a handwritten journal for two weeks before the attack, a prosecutor said Tuesday.
"I just want people to die, and I'm gonna die with them!" Aaron Ybarra wrote the day of the shooting, King County Prosecutor Dan Satterberg said.
Satterberg released new details of the allegations as he filed charges of first-degree murder, attempted murder and assault against Ybarra, 26. Satterberg is seeking a sentence of life in prison.
Authorities say Ybarra has been held without bail and is on suicide watch at the county jail since a student pepper-sprayed him and ended the rampage Thursday at Seattle Pacific University.
Ybarra's lawyer, Ramona Brandes, has said her client has a long history of mental issues but is aware of the trauma caused by the shooting and is sorry. She said Tuesday that no decision has been made yet on whether he will seek a mental-illness defense.
(Excerpt) Read more at lasvegassun.com ...
SEATTLE – In 2010, Aaron Ybarra called 911 to report “a rage inside him” and said he wanted to hurt himself and others, according to a police report of the incident.
Two years later, officers responded again — this time finding him lying in the middle of the street in front of his suburban Mountlake Terrace home, ranting drunkenly for a SWAT team “to get him and make him famous.”
We have no remaining mental health capability in this country
http://www.frontpagemag.com/2014/mallorymillett/no-gun-ever-killed-anyone/
I don't think anyone other than severely mentally ill people should be barred from owning guns.
By "severely mentally ill," I mean people who we used to put in insane asylums. People who have been violent, people who are exhibit psychotic delusions or other obvious symptoms.
Were you institutionalized? Were you psychotic? Did you hear voices? Did you use violence against others? If so, then I would answer your question with a "yes." If not, "no."
Of course, I believe that sane people should be allowed to arm themselves. I also believe that people who are clearly mentally ill (it's not that hard to spot such people, at least if you're not constrained by the now-thoroughly-politicized DSM-5) should be institutionalized for their own protection as well as that of society. If they act out in ways that endanger others, they might be shot.
Re the photo of Mr. Ybarra, there’s more proof that the Neanderthal genes remain in the populace.
A Molotov cocktail thrown into a crowded school room could easily kill and maim as many or more kids than a madman with a firearm that the hoplophobic media invariably describes as an "assault weapon". In the media's dictionary, any firearm more modern than Davie Crockett's flintlock squirrel rifle when used in a crime automatically becomes a dreaded ""assault weapon" that somehow induced it's otherwise sane and law abiding possessor to open fire on innocent men, women, and children. How stupid do they think we are?
On second thought, the majority of "us" probably are as stupid as they think since an unreasoning fear of firearms has been drilled into "us" for decades.
I believe Steely Tom left off the "/s" tag. As you know, there are innumerable laws already, they just don't seem to work. So then, the real solution is to add stronger laws that can do nothing to reduce the risk. But at least we can feel better about ourselves. :)
as said here many times, the biggest problem we have in controlling violence is the mental health system - especially the mental health professionals - especially psychiatrists. They are so keen on protecting the so called rights of the pycho and let the public be damned.
Exactly. Not only that, but it seems that laws that are designed to keep firearms out of the hands of mentally ill people, criminals, and juveniles are not enforced, possibly intentionally.
Noted gun law author Clayton Cramer wrote a good book on this called “My Brother Ron”.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bath_School_disaster
The Bath School disaster refers to the series of violent attacks perpetrated by Andrew Kehoe on May 18, 1927, in Bath Township, Michigan, that killed 38 elementary school children and six adults in total, and injured at least 58 other people.[Note 1] Kehoe first killed his wife, fire-bombed his farm and set off a major explosion in the Bath Consolidated School, before committing suicide by detonating a final explosion in his truck. It is the deadliest mass murder in a school in United States history
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