22 year-old virgin kills 7 in Santa Barbara shooting

[Steve_uk]

A sexually-frustrated youth who sought revenge on the opposite sex for ignoring his advances has killed seven young women and injured another seven as he randomly sprayed the streets around Isla Vista,Santa Barbara with gunfire emanating from a black BMW automobile in an episode far more gruesome than anything the eponymous soap show ever had to offer. The product of an affluent family with a movie director father and pretty stepmother,this boy has been left to his own devices for the past eight years with no natural mother in sight,as Elliot Rodgers wallows in self-pity and speculates as to why girls his age are rejecting his gentlemanly manner. It is no coincidence that the apogee of this murderous rampage occurred on a Friday evening as an excluded young man drove around the streets searching for human contact,a stranger to happiness in this life as others savoured the attractions of a balmy Californian evening.http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worl...lling-six.html

[Vahan]

I like how some people are blaming the violent video games he played, and violent movies and TV shows he watched, as the reasons for his actions, and saying they should be banned.

Idiots. I've played plenty of violent video games. I have watched plenty of violent movies and TV shows. None of them have ever inspired me to go on a killing spree. It is the mentally ill, not the violent form of entertainment from the television set, that should be banned.

[comedyfreak]

I just read that the police showed up on his door step a day before it all happened.

[Steve_uk]

Originally Posted by Vahan

I like how some people are blaming the violent video games he played, and violent movies and TV shows he watched, as the reasons for his actions, and saying they should be banned.

Idiots. I've played plenty of violent video games. I have watched plenty of violent movies and TV shows. None of them have ever inspired me to go on a killing spree. It is the mentally ill, not the violent form of entertainment from the television set, that should be banned.

Yet is it not possible that this feeling of dystopia witnessed on the small screen is projected into the real world by a youngster seeking his own Katniss,yet there is no Jennifer Lawrence who will look in his direction,and as he contemplates his involuntary celibacy it brings the artificiality of the video medium back to the fore,a video which he was always left to watch alone and which stimulated nascent arousal,and he plays his part and vows to do his own Reaping as three male roommates are stabbed to death with the girls his subsequent target,as he rationalizes in this world there is no femininity left: only a winner takes all mindset in which this time Elliot himself will determine the outcome..

[cleverfun3000]

Originally Posted by comedyfreak

I just read that the police showed up on his door step a day before it all happened.

That is true. In his diatribe the next day, he taunted the cops for not being smart enough to search his room and find his arsenal. It wasn't hidden.

[Steve_uk]

How far are the parents to blame for the actions of their children? Are the sins of the fathers visited on their offspring,can they be responsible for neglect and therefore be guilty by default or is the long hours culture so standard in family life which parents endure for the best of motives meaning there is a degree of alienation apparent in any putative family unit?http://time.com/136764/elliot-rodger-parents/