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  • Elliot Rodger: Videos Spell Out Plans to Murder

    The story emerging of Elliot Rodger’s violent musings prior to going on a deadly rampage Friday is disturbing to say the least.

    From social media postings to YouTube videos, Rodger’s violent rants hinted at the coming massacre.

    His parents, who are in “deep, deep grief” over the shooting, even tried to step in before Friday’s shooting spree.

    In April, Rodger’s mother called one of her son’s counselors after seeing bizarre videos he had posted on YouTube. The counselor then called a mental health service who called police.

    But Santa Barbara County Sheriff’s deputies who paid a visit to Rodger’s were left believing he was not a risk to others despite the alarming videos.

    “Obviously, looking back on this, it’s a very tragic situation and we certainly wish that we could turn the clock back and maybe change some things,” Brown told CBS’ Face the Nation on Sunday.

    “At the time deputies interacted with him, he was able to convince them that he was OK,” he said.

    [The videos in this article are disturbing — Discretion is advised].

    Rodger’s family said their son was in therapy and were concerned about their son’s behavior for months, if not years.

    Doris A. Fuller, executive director of the Virginia-based Treatment Advocacy Center, said too little was done too late.

    “Once again, we are grieving over deaths and devastation caused by a young man who was sending up red flags for danger that failed to produce intervention in time to avert tragedy,” Fuller said in a statement.

    “In this case, the red flags were so big the killer’s parents had called police … and yet the system failed,” she said.

    But most frightening is the 141-page manifesto promising a “Day of Retribution” he emailed to his mother and counselor minutes before stabbing and killing three young men in his apartment, killing three more people and injuring 13 others by shooting them.

    “We said right from the get-go that that kid was going to lose it someday and just freak out,” a high school classmate told The New York Times. “Everyone made fun of him and stuff.”

    Most troubling is Rodger’s words and demeanor in YouTube videos posted before the killings.

    “On the week leading up to date I set for the Day of Retribution, I uploaded several videos onto YouTube in order to express my views and feelings to the world, though I don’t plan on uploading my ultimate video until minutes before the attack, because on that video I will talk about exactly why I’m doing this,” Rodger wrote.

    In the final video posted Friday, he sits in a black BMW telling the world about the pleasure he would derive in killing.

    “I’ll take great pleasure in slaughtering all of you,” he said.

    Image via YouTube

  • Elliot Rodger: A Creep Who Couldn’t Take Rejection?

    Elliot Rodger was walking validation for any and every woman who ever felt the hairs on the back of her neck stand up when approached by certain men. Clearly by his actions, every woman who rejected the man who is blamed for the carnage in Santa Barbara, Calif. was right to do so.

    His drive-by shootings resulted seven confirmed deaths (including his own) and at least thirteen injuries. He’s also believed to have started his deadly rampage at home, due to the discovery of three bodies of individuals who had been stabbed to death.

    Some individuals are on the internet lamenting Rodger and how his tragic death just goes to show what can possibly go wrong when “women don’t put out for nice guys”.

    These persons are not only wrong, but I sincerely hope their information has been passed along to the authorities.

    Tragically, law enforcement officials were warned multiple times that Rodger was dangerous. It was just that they felt he possessed no threat that could lead them to take action.

    Elliot Rodger was, despite the violence he inflicted, not an unusual young man in terms of his entitled thinking. It is only the act of violence that set him a part from so many other like-minded individuals clogging up the internet with their issues.

    Tragically, these individuals are ignored not because they pose a danger, but because their beliefs are so common among a segment of dejected males.

    After all, who HASN’T heard a rant from some passive-aggressive individual who blames his lack of success on everyone else rather than his own thoughts and behavior. Such persons simply cannot handle rejection, even though rejection is a common human occurrence for men and women.

    Is Elliot Rodger mentally ill?

    A better question is why pretend that there aren’t millions of people who suffer from various mental illnesses, but somehow manage not to go on shooting sprees. While there are certainly persons that are dangerous because of mental health issues, it is quite clear from the videos, comments, and lengthy manifesto left behind what Rodger’s problem was. He pretty much spelled it out with his own words and actions.

    Elliot Rodger was simply a twenty-something male who couldn’t take rejection and felt entitled to women and ego-stroking. When he didn’t get what he wanted, he threw a fatal temper tantrum.

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