Elliot Rodge, son of Hunger Games’s assistant director, Peter Rodger, stabbed 3 people, shot 3 and then killed himself in Isla Vista, CA last Friday night.
The kid was obviously very mentally disturbed and cited a lifetime of loneliness due to rejection by girls and popular people as the reason for the killings. You can see his testament and his plan of “slaughtering” women at a sorority house at the UC Santa Barbara in the video below, which he posted to YouTube right before the shootings. We warn you it is disturbing to watch.
Richard Martinez, father of the final victim, Christopher Michael-Martinez, was quick to blame the NRA.
“Why did Chris die? Chris died because of craven, irresponsible politicians and the NRA,” Martinez stated. “They talk about gun rights, what about Chris’ right to live? When will this insanity stop?”
The brainwashing of Americans to believe that guns are to blame, not the mental illness of the person, is so entrenched that this man blames the NRA even though 3 of the victims were killed with knives.
We can expect more backlash and laws enacted against gun ownership as a result of this event.
Our hearts go out to the victims of this tragedy. But, let’s see that these deaths don’t happen in vain by addressing the most basic cause, which is mental illness.
A 22-year-old gunman, who killed six people before taking his own life in California, was the son of a Hollywood director. Elliot Rodger stabbed three people to death and then shot another three near the campus of the University of California.
Rodger opened fire on bystanders from his car and then on foot, which eventually ended when he killed himself after a shootout with police. The incident happened in the town of Isla Vista, near Santa Barbara. Aside from the six people he killed, 13 people were also injured in the attack, including eight who were shot.
Police are now studying a YouTube video that shows a young man identifying himself as Elliot Rodger. The video had been posted hours before the shooting spree. During the clip, the young man demonstrates his hatred of women and popular kids.
“You girls have never been attracted to me. I don’t know why you girls aren’t attracted to me. But I will punish you all for it. It’s an injustice, a crime,” he said in the video, his speech punctuated by bursts of laughter. The clip has since been removed from YouTube.
In addition to the video, the 22 year-old had prepared a 141-page manifesto laying out his plan for the killings, starting with luring potential victims to his apartment.
“It’s obviously the work of a madman,” Sheriff Bill Brown told a news conference, adding the community college student had been seen by a variety of healthcare professionals and that it was “very, very apparent he was severely mentally disturbed.”
Rodger was the son of the assistant director Peter Rodger, who helped make the film ‘Hunger Games’. It is understood that members of Rodger’s family were concerned about his well being and had asked the police to check up on him. He was interviewed by the authorities, but they found him to be polite and not a potential threat, so no further action was taken.
“He expressed to deputies he was having difficulties with his social life and would probably not be returning to school within the next year,” Brown said, adding that deputies determined he did not meet the criteria to be held involuntarily on mental health grounds.
Rodger’s killing spree appeared to have started in his apartment, where he stabbed three men to death. He then went to a sorority house and knocked on the door repeatedly, but no one let him in, Brown added. Not long afterwards, witnesses reported seeing Rodger shoot three young women outside the house, two of whom died.
He later drove off to a nearby delicatessen and shot a young man before fleeing in his car and shooting at pedestrians and the police.
Authorities found three legally-purchased semiautomatic guns, two Sig Sauers and a Glock, and more than 400 rounds of ammunition in his car.
Yea and Guns kill ppl lol xD about the knifes? They killed ppl too? Lmao
well at this rate all the mental $#%&!@*s will kill themselves off. I say string him up on a telephone pole to be put on display. now we just play the waiting game
People kill people and use lots of things to due it. The hands alone are a weapon
That’s it blame the gun instead of the shooter so congress can take our guns away and allow criminals to keep theirs. I heard he got the gun legally well how good was the background check? We are talking about a stupid mentally ill kid who also has afluenza. We are not talking about the gun that was used to kill what about the knife that was used to kill 3 of his victims? Why say it is about guns when they cannot fire by themselves and the knife cannot stab anyone on its own. How about if California uses more efficient background checks? How about the FACT that if he was hell bent on shooting people at random he WOULD have aquired a gun illegally off the street or stolen one. Wake up and use some common sense!
He had his sickness & He Pulled The Trigger. Prayers To All The Families & Friends.
ALLEN ALL THE MENTAL $#%&!@*S ARE Demon-KKK-rats!!! IT WOULD BE A BLESSING IF THAT WOULD REALLY HAPPEN!!!
To anyone who wants to talk about “victims of senseless crimes” and connect it all to gun control, hear this: I am personally a victim of gun violence. I’ve been on the other end. I’ve been that victim. obviously, in my case, I’m still alive but it could have been very different. I’m just lucky. Having said that you will NEVER find a more passionate defender of second amendment rights than myself. Had this mans son survived, I have no doubt he’d see the value in having his own firearm today. Hundreds of millions of guns never are used in crimes. It’s such a small percentage, if it were a chemical in food they wouldn’t even put it on the nutritional facts. These sad exceptions are exploited for political purposes. I’ve been on the other end of a madman with a gun and unless you have been too, you don’t truly understand what you’re saying. I saw crazy in his eyes that night, not the gun. And when you are, you’ll realize it’s the man, not the inanimate object. Gun rights are essential to balance it the evil. Gun control would but prevent innocents from getting shot. Only deny them the ability to deter the violence. I guarantee had I been armed that day, he’d have not fine what he did, or if but be calling myself a victim.same guess for this mans son. Gun control? Remember, heroin is illegal too, people. come on
And yet on the news they report that it is some guy…
Never mentioned whos son he was…load a c**p
oh waa such is life get over it
If these people would just leave people out of the Murdering they do of people they do not know b4 they did themselves in. This is a part of this everyone wins attitude which just is not true. And that means kids only learn that they should be able to get exactly what they want all the time. Well life does not work that way and never has. Kids need to learn how to deal with winning cause there is a right way to be a winner and losing cause you need to learn to lose and how to adjust what you do to get better. And it allows you to find out what you can do that fits your abilities. Sometimes what we think we like is not what we really like we are just taken in what is popular at the time. And well if it is something that you really like you learn to have it as a GREAT hobby.
And for the ladies you either learn how to adjust to win over one of the ladies you like or you learn to move on and find someone later and that sometimes you have to wait to get what you want