Posted on 05/26/2014 3:09:55 AM PDT by Enterprise
"When Elliot Rodger's parents realized just how dangerous their disturbed son was, they made a desperate attempt to try to stop him. They received a copy of his 141-page manifesto and saw a YouTube video outlining his plans for his "Day of Retribution" on Friday night and called 911 before rushing to Santa Barbara in separate cars, a family friend tells the New York Daily News. They heard about the shooting spree while they were on their way. "They were hoping against hope," the friend says. "They are in inconceivable pain."
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"He had been in therapy since childhood, but turned his back on mental health care when he turned 18. He had no criminal history, never explicitly threatened others, and even when his worried parents requested police check on him, deputies found no reason to place him in an involuntary psychiatric hold."
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“Then seeing the raging father spew that hatred toward the NRA and gun owners???”
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That was the father of a victim.
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“Medication works as long as they are faithful to take it.”
My ex’s thyroid went hyper on her. She had meds to take. But when she missed/skipped a dose, she got VERY energetic, and she liked that. So she’d keep skipping her meds. After she’d been awake for a few days, I was afraid to stay in the same house with her!
exactly. Once a disturbed person reaches the age of 18, there’s not much a parent CAN do. I know some folks who are going through this horror currently. Their son has been in and out of rehab/mental facilities for years. They only keep him long enough to get him back on the meds he stops taking after a few weeks/months. It’s a vicious cycle and parents hands are tied. There IS no magic fairy dust to cure mentally ill patients and pretty much no facilities will keep them unless they become violet. Then it’s often too late as in this case.
“and I would assume the reason that their names did not appear in the press was that it would have been a violation of confidentiality.”
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Their names were on-line last night.
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I’m thinking it would make a good screensaver!
I think it was Omega Moo
The Kennedy women turned out okay,it was just the men who were pathetic.
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Strange, but when walking behind women, I tend to notice them too!
I’d say if they knew he was nuts and funded the gun purchases then yes they are liable.
You don’t even need swords.
Somebody with 3 feet of 1/2” steel cable that you can buy at any hardware store would be almost impossible for the average person(s) to stop.
The names were bound to be published eventually, but they may have had to get permission from the next of kin or some such thing. I can’t remember the name of the group that supposedly runs the apartment or apartments. It appeared in the early reports (possibly in the British press?).
Rodgers had apparently done what he described as a “citizens’ arrest” of one of his roommates, claiming that the man had stolen $22 worth of candles from him. The police put the man in a cell overnight (probably for his own protection, the way they do in domestic violence cases). And there was another earlier call from Rodgers to the police about some weird thing. So the police were familiar with him and his roommates; I’m surprised that the police interview with him didn’t reveal the fact that he was about to snap, but he was probably pretty accomplished in faking out therapists and LE and knew what to say to seem “normal.”
Very sad. There’s really not much the police can do - until after the fact. But at least she didn’t go after your wife. Paranoids sit around and imagine hidden messages in casual conversations and then they obsess on something, and you never know who or what they’re going to obsess on next.
Absolutely ridiculous. It is almost as if the gun levitated and started chasing people down and shooting them.
Hasn't the last 12 mass murders been by people currently or recently under the care of a psychologist or therapist? Oh, right, much easier to demand everyone disarm.
Gee, not one Black Girl in that Sorority.
Must be an oversight.
OH, thanks for the correction.
One of the victim’s father was blaming the NRA not the elder Rodger.
I lived there in there in the early 2000s. Beautiful scenery, weather. People sucked.
I don't see anywhere where they purchased the gun for him, but you raise an interesting point: If it was known that he was mentally unstable and likely to hurt someone (his therapist likely knew and if CA is like other states that would have to be reported to the State) then doesn't that just increase the State of California's liability? Or perhaps that of the Therapist?
Seems to me that would further insulate the parents --- but I'm no lawyer and don't know California law. Just trying to use some common sense and reason (which again, may not apply in the land of fruits and flakes known as California.)
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