Get Ready For the Anti-gun Frenzy!

[gfy1960]

Well another mentally ill person has killed six people and injured more. The media should be demonizing guns any time now.

I feel bad for the families of the victims and the family of the shooter/stabber. This person posted videos announcing his intentions and the cops thought he was kind and polite.

The only up side to this tragedy is it happened in California and the guns were legally obtained. I guess all those necessary gun laws worked out great. Time to re-evaluate Ca.

Let's keep the victims and their families in our thoughts and prayers.

 

[Jessie]

Yes, sorry for the victims but the fact that the gun was obtained legally in Cal. is not a good thing. It only means that Cal. will only try harder to restrict them.

 

[rwsmith]

Note

Note that he also stabbed a couple people to death before going on his shooting spree.

 

[gfy1960]

Yes, sorry for the victims but the fact that the gun was obtained legally in Cal. is not a good thing. It only means that Cal. will only try harder to restrict them.

Sorry. Someone really has to create sarcasm quotes to use in forums.

However this could act as a lesson to other states that just because you have the toughest gun laws around things like this will always happen.

Of course your correct. This could lead to even tougher laws.
We need to keep up the good fight.

 

[CDROBERTS]

Note that he also stabbed a couple people to death before going on his shooting spree.

Yes... the first three were stabbed to death.

I am just getting sick and tired of the fact that any nut can waltz into a wal-mart and buy a knife with no background check.

They should ban both knives AND murder.

Janet Napolitano is in charge at this university.

 

[badge]

The problem, as it always seems to be is the media will concentrate on the firearms portion of the crime instead of the stabbing or mental health issue. They always have and sadly, always will.

 

[chuckster57]

It will play front and center until the next big fire or bus crash...

 

[Fishslayer]

Already started on facespace. Let no tragedy go to waste...

 

[Malpasowildlifer]

yeah, the libs will go berserk.

Notice the shooter was another video game player

 

[rojodiablo]

Yes... the first three were stabbed to death.

I am just getting sick and tired of the fact that any nut can waltz into a wal-mart and buy a knife with no background check.

They should ban both knives AND murder.

Janet Napolitano is in charge at this university.

Okay; first off: There will be not much of a battle cry for the banning of guns on this one. His PARENTS are both 'Hollywood', and abhor guns. So they have absolutely no idea how their little cupcake wound up with a gun. This alone will divert some of the gun curio, as the very people who are least likely to have guns....well one of them wound up abusing his rights, via murder.
As well noted; he stabbed 3 young men to death before he went on his sojourn through Alta Vista. He THEN ran over a couple people with his car. Serious injury on one, one moderate injury. After this, he began shooting.

So, as usual, we need to BAN, in this order:
1. Crazy 22 yr. old male virgins. Any guy who is wealthy, has a nice car, and is not ugly as a spider should be able to rope in a little companionship in such a location as UCSB. He has shown his absolute failure as a male of the species. Creatures of his societal rank should simply be banned.
2. Knives. Knives kill and injure MORE people in the US every year than Pit Bulls and slipping in the shower combined. Ban them for the children.
3. Cars; they have been used as killing weapons for far too long, and their numbers in the US are astoundingly high. Especially ban evil black cars. They are related closely to evil black rifles, and that's enough for me.

And, let's not forget that his parents DID turn him in, but it's not so simple to just lock a person up until they do something wrong. I commend his parents for notifying the authorities. I am very sorry for them, as they saw something bad coming, but there was no simple, easy way to prevent their son from snapping.

It's a mental health issue for this catastrophe. It's not a gun issue.

I don't know what to pray for after this one. But I'm asking God to give grace and peace to all the families involved, and open the floor to hell and let this warped young monster fall.

 

[hpfenning]

The father of one of the victims has already told the press that it is the fault of "irresponsible politicians and the NRA."

 

[LVSteve]

It's a mental health issue for this catastrophe. It's not a gun issue.

^^^ This, multiplied by lots.

I was a bit baffled that law enforcement were not more proactive. Seems to me that they had a good case to go looking if he had obtained any firearms. With his videos they would have had a case for confiscating them. Then I looked at certain of the reported circumstances and it became clear (at least to me) why no action was taken.

 

[Faulkner]

The father of one of the victims has already told the press that it is the fault of "irresponsible politicians and the NRA."

You can really expect no less from grieving parents immediately after a event like this. Frankly, I have the exact same feelings towards alcohol because of a senseless fatal DWI in my family.

 

[ladyT]

According to the paper mom had called the police due to his posting of videos. Parents knew their son was troubled yet no history of treatment, nothing. Knowning your child has problems and not seeking care for them is the problem here.

 

[wbraswell]

Mental illness is certainly a big issue here, but it is not a blanket that covers all. Disregard for human life, entitlement, lack of love and respect for others, are all major players, too.

 

[Art Doc]

The parents of the mass murderer said they are "staunchly against guns."

How about knives? The killer's first three victims were stabbed.

Also note that the dead killer's father, one of those "staunchly against guns," was an assistant director for the film The Hunger Games in which young people bludgeon each other other to death with clubs. Stab each other with knives. Shoot each other with arrows. But I guess glorifying all that violence was fine since it didn't involve the guns he is staunchly against. Despite all the gun laws in CA this still occurred. The lesson is that gun laws don't work. But there was the father of a victim running to a microphone to call for more gun control. That was obscene. A normal person would not be interested in holding a press conference within minutes of losing a child to criminal violence.

Typical Hollywood hypocrite. He makes a fortune by promoting violence in films then gets all high and mighty about gun control.

I just wish an armed citizen could have put a round in his punk son's head early in his murderous rampage and saved some lives. But he was pretty safe driving around in that exclusive ocean front California community shooting at people from his BMW (how cliche). He knew that none of his victims would be armed. Try that **** in Arkansas and you WILL draw return fire.

 

[4011]

The lead of the speakers last nite stated his deputies had no probable cause to go inside the home to look for anything. I don't know of anyway they would have known he had bought firearms. Unless his ramblings stated so.

 

[vigil617]

I think just the opposite of the OP's worry will happen.

Short of an outright massacre like the one in Connecticut, events involving guns will obtain only momentary notice in the news before another catastrophe or tragedy or celebrity wedding takes its place.

We as a society are becoming numb to these incidents, because they have become so commonplace.

I'm not saying this is a good thing. Just the opposite, in fact.

My prayers go out to the families of this senseless tragedy, including the perpetrator's.

 

[Taurus627]

Already happening. Rumors are running wild in the Twitterverse.

 

[bamabiker]

I think just the opposite of the OP's worry will happen.

Short of an outright massacre like the one in Connecticut, events involving guns will obtain only momentary notice in the news before another catastrophe or tragedy or celebrity wedding takes its place.

We as a society are becoming numb to these incidents, because they have become so commonplace.

I'm not saying this is a good thing. Just the opposite, in fact.

My prayers go out to the families of this senseless tragedy, and to the perpetrator as well for healing during the lifetime of incarceration he deserves.

I think his incarceration will be in hell, he's dead to.