7 dead in Drive by shooting in CA seems one English kid who could not handle it.
May 24th 2014, 5:58 pm
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7 dead in Drive by shooting in CA seems one English kid who could not handle it.
http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/l...524-story.html
On his personal website, the man who made the videotape said he was born in England and raised in the San Fernando Valley.
On his personal website, the man who made the videotape said he was born in England and raised in the San Fernando Valley.
May 24th 2014, 6:52 pm
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http://www.express.co.uk/news/world/...g-of-slaughter
Express has the video that was taken off You Tube.
Seems that despite his connection to the Movie industry he had no success with the Ladies and it came to this.
Express has the video that was taken off You Tube.
Seems that despite his connection to the Movie industry he had no success with the Ladies and it came to this.
May 24th 2014, 6:55 pm
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Neither of which are likely to be particularly relevant to why he did what he did but, for now, it looks like that is all of the information that the media outlets have so that is what they are going to print.
May 24th 2014, 7:01 pm
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Judging from the Express piece looks like it is all out there.
Most of it anyway.
Most of it anyway.
May 24th 2014, 7:09 pm
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Yes - just a crazy kid who was able to get his hands on semi-automatic weapons and then went out to kill as many people as he could ... 
May 24th 2014, 7:20 pm
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Weird and sad phenomena going on. Apart from the easy access to deadly weapons aspect (guns don't kill people, etc. etc.....). Here we have an out of control sense of entitlement, stoked by social media and special interest Internet forums that seem to get people radicalized, fired up and ready to kill. This young man, for instance, felt it was a crime that attractive girls didn't like him, the logical outcome being that he was entitled to kill them.
May 24th 2014, 7:37 pm
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He seemed to have a thing about blondes not liking him.
If he wanted to kill as many people as possible then there are better options.
If he wanted to kill as many people as possible then there are better options.
May 24th 2014, 7:43 pm
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May 24th 2014, 8:03 pm
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May 24th 2014, 9:06 pm
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A shotgun would probably have been more effective in this situation but I doubt that was the point.
May 24th 2014, 9:23 pm
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One news item described it as 'one for the record books'.
I was slightly worried on a personal level as my son has a good friend in Isla Vista and they sometimes visit eachother at weekends.
I was slightly worried on a personal level as my son has a good friend in Isla Vista and they sometimes visit eachother at weekends.
May 24th 2014, 9:38 pm
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Weird and sad phenomena going on. Apart from the easy access to deadly weapons aspect (guns don't kill people, etc. etc.....). Here we have an out of control sense of entitlement, stoked by social media and special interest Internet forums that seem to get people radicalized, fired up and ready to kill. This young man, for instance, felt it was a crime that attractive girls didn't like him, the logical outcome being that he was entitled to kill them.
May 24th 2014, 9:40 pm
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He was 22, so in 3 years.
May 24th 2014, 9:43 pm
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Just throwing it out there, having guns easily available?
May 24th 2014, 9:55 pm
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No flies on you.
It's more than that though. There is something in the culture that works with the availability of weapons that makes this happen. Not sure what it is, but working on a theory that it's to do with the huge emphasis on consumption and acquisition and people not having a sense of who they are and what they are worth without counting up their piles of stuff. I realize that this is not scientific.
It's more than that though. There is something in the culture that works with the availability of weapons that makes this happen. Not sure what it is, but working on a theory that it's to do with the huge emphasis on consumption and acquisition and people not having a sense of who they are and what they are worth without counting up their piles of stuff. I realize that this is not scientific.