Posted on 05/26/2014 11:45:32 AM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist
The story speaks of a therapist. How do you know it wasn't a psychologist or a grief counselor?
How do you know the kid wasn't good at hiding his true feelings?
The way I see it, unless you want a police state enforcing thought control, the cops are here to pick up the pieces after the crime. We are left with chance that we will not be victims. We are left to our own wits to skirt and defend against danger where we perceive it. It's a better choice than the rising notion of enforcing behavior as chosen by the criminal elite.
Why wasn’t Elliot Rodgers not in a lockdown mental health ward? How can a young man seeing several therapists and other mental health specialist(s) buy weapons? How is it not possible that this person NOT be on any lists that make him ineligible to own or buy guns? His parents were trying to have him institutionalized for christ sake. Why wasn’t enough information given to the police, before his gun rampage throughout the city? All this happening in one of the most restrictive second amendment states in the nation. I want someone jailed for failing to stop this guy.
His father did not blame the NRA and politicians. The father of one of the victims did. Get your facts straight before spouting off.
His father did not blame the NRA and politicians. The father of one of the victims did. Get your facts straight before spouting off.
Maybe not but it was a headline of a major news outlet. You’re welcome to check that out. And next time I spout off, I’ll clear it with your ass.
You're correct. This has been a recurring error on this and other posts about this incident. The father of one of the victims is the one who went on a rant about politicians and the NRA.
The most astonishing thing I read was that the father of the victim wanted to meet with the father of the killer to stop future killings.
The most astonishing thing I read was that the father of the victim wanted to meet with the father of the killer to stop future killings.
Timothy McVeigh makes me believe they might need to talk about banning fertilizer too. muslim terrorists killed 3000 innocent Americans with box cutters and planes.
If they do meet, I hope they take at least a few minutes to discuss morals and values.
Rodgers was in treatment practically since he could walk. These parents, like them or not, weren’t like the woman in Sandy Hook, who denied her son’s illness and even took him out of school to avoid treatment...and bought and made the guns available to him...until she suddenly had to admit the fact that he was crazy and dangerous. But then it was too late.
Rodgers’ parents were worried about what would happen when he turned 18 and no longer had to go to treatment. They were afraid he would stop, which he appears to have done - but maybe not permanently. I read in another source that he was actually living in some kind of special apartment residence for people who had mental disabilities but were more or less functional (that is, people with things like OCD, but who were controlled with medication).
I think it will probably emerge that he was under treatment, although possibly he wasn’t following through with it, taking the medication, or whatever. And then, therapists are famous for ignoring warning signs. The Colorado movie theater gunman’s therapist “thought about” alerting the police, but then decided that he could sue her or sue the university if she did, so she just sent a vague note to somebody at the university and hoped for the best.
Well some of us are capable of reading the whole article, and not just the headline. No “maybe” about it. If you have a source or a quote, post it. Otherwise, you’re full of it.
The kid was a spoiled brat. Liberals and Hollywood laugh at traditional morals and family values. Seems the kid and all the victims would have been a lot better off it Hollywood would shut up.
Please, do not interject facts into emotional knee-jerking reactions by posters.
It ruins the Karma.
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Well some of us are capable of reading the whole article, and not just the headline. No “maybe” about it. If you have a source or a quote, post it. Otherwise, you’re full of it.
Appears several read the same thing. And it was from normally very reliable source. I’ve been wrong before but no need for the tone or being a smartass. I’d tell you to shove it up your azz if you had talked with me that way. If you retired from the pentagon, you should know about being wrong many of times.
Butt...butt....butt... his father was a very busy man.
LOL!!!! I will keep that mind!!!
Dad and the new wife have a child of 6. Unless he was screwing around with a 15YO, your dates are off.
Reading the bio of this woman, Soumaya Akaaboune, it says dad met her 15 years ago. She looks to be mid 30s to me.
I have been searching, and every FIND comes back with FATHER OF VICTIM says NRA... whatever.
NONE of them state that the FATHER of the MURDERER made that statement. Matter of fact, he has AVOIDED making that kind of statement.
What happened to YOU, and to OTHERS is that the info about the FATHER of the VICTIM making the NRA association has so far been INCLUDED in every article about the MURDER or FATHER of the PERP.
It would be easy to read through an article, and read it incorrectly, then retain it as ‘fact’.
If you check for yourself, I think you will have to admit that you and others just made a mistake. (Actually, it’s a trick pulled by the media. Don’t feel too bad, many fall for it)
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