The mass shooting yesterday at near Santa Barbara City College by Elliot Rodger has sadly become far too common place in America. The number of victims may vacillate and location may differ with each incident (Fort Hood aside) but it tends to be some one that is mentally unbalanced that has easy access to firearms that leads to same tragedy multiple violent deaths.
This shooting has it's unique attribute that the shooter premeditated the abomination that he had been planning and posted a YouTube video describing his "rationale" of the horrors he had planned to commence later that day. After watching it I came away with these two thoughts: 1) shooting spree is vastly disproportionate response to being a 22 year old virgin 2) his sporadic laughter in the video, if it was intended to provide him with the utmost creepiness factor-- he succeeded even though it seemed forced and hammy. Unlike the bizarre text-based videos of Gabby Giffords shooter Jared Loughner, Rodger's videos seemed more like over-the-top emo teenager than someone that was going to commit mass murder. After watching a couple of Rodger's videos I would have assumed that he would be likely to put on some bad one-man show that just had him moping about his non-existent love life while traipsing on stage wearing black pants and and black turtle neck... which ironically might have been a successful strategy to getting his 1st girlfriend that might have been deluded he was deep and artistic.
This shooting has it's unique attribute that the shooter premeditated the abomination that he had been planning and posted a YouTube video describing his "rationale" of the horrors he had planned to commence later that day. After watching it I came away with these two thoughts: 1) shooting spree is vastly disproportionate response to being a 22 year old virgin 2) his sporadic laughter in the video, if it was intended to provide him with the utmost creepiness factor-- he succeeded even though it seemed forced and hammy. Unlike the bizarre text-based videos of Gabby Giffords shooter Jared Loughner, Rodger's videos seemed more like over-the-top emo teenager than someone that was going to commit mass murder. After watching a couple of Rodger's videos I would have assumed that he would be likely to put on some bad one-man show that just had him moping about his non-existent love life while traipsing on stage wearing black pants and and black turtle neck... which ironically might have been a successful strategy to getting his 1st girlfriend that might have been deluded he was deep and artistic.
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