{"id":48819,"date":"2014-05-26T08:08:43","date_gmt":"2014-05-26T12:08:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=48819"},"modified":"2014-05-26T08:11:41","modified_gmt":"2014-05-26T12:11:41","slug":"santa-barbaras-gunman-was-a-nut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=48819","title":{"rendered":"Santa Barbara’s gunman was a nut"},"content":{"rendered":"

I see LTC Robert Bateman is trolling the blog again this morning, reawakened by the latest news of that fellow in Santa Barbara who killed a half dozen people and injured a half dozen more. Bateman feels vindicated by every shooting incident, you know being an expert in violence. But, reading the Washington Post<\/a> this morning, he shouldn’t feel even a tinge of vindication. The gunman, whatever his name was, has been treated for mental problems for years and should have been reported on the national database as a mental defective;<\/p>\n

When some young women neglected to smile at him at a bus stop one day, Rodger wrote, he splashed them with his Starbucks latte. When he saw a cluster of undergraduates frolicking happily in a park another day, Rodger grew so jealous and angry that he loaded a Super Soaker water gun with orange juice and sprayed them.<\/p>\n

[…]<\/p>\n

Last month, the 22-year-old wrote, his mother was so concerned about his well-being after seeing some of his videos on YouTube that she contacted mental-health officials, who dispatched sheriff\u2019s deputies to check on him at his apartment in Isla Vista, an enclave near the University of California at Santa Barbara.<\/p>\n

Had the officers sensed something awry during their April 30 visit, they might have searched Rodger\u2019s home. They would have found his three semiautomatic handguns, dozens of rounds of ammunition and a draft of his 137-page memoir-manifesto. They would have read about his plot for a \u201cDay of Retribution\u201d \u2014 when, as Rodger wrote, he planned to \u201ckill everyone in Isla Vista, to utterly destroy that wretched town.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

But, actually reporting the nut would have caused scores of lawyers and mental health professionals to spring to his defense. So Bateman and those lower functioning liberals go to their first instinct; ban the gun, you know, even though half of the fellow’s victims were stabbed to death.<\/p>\n

And the folks in Washington are seizing on the incident to revive the gun control debate, but they’re not thinking about the causes of this – there is plenty of gun control already, there is enough gun control that if everyone had actually done their job, this gunman shouldn’t have had guns in the first place. But, aside from it being completely his fault, mental health and law enforcement failed measurably in their duty to society.<\/p>\n

This was California, which has more gun control than many parts of the country, but it’s the cogs in the system that have to work together so that the gun laws work. It’s been the same in the mass shootings across the country. It’s not the gun laws that don’t work, it’s the humans in the system who are failing society. <\/p>\n

But, it’s easier to regulate law abiding Americans than it is to regulate the criminals and sociopaths.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe was able to make a very convincing story that there was no problem, that he wasn\u2019t going to hurt himself or anyone else, and he just didn\u2019t meet the criteria for any further intervention at that point,\u201d Brown said. \u201cObviously, we certainly wish that we could turn the clock back and change some things, but at the time the deputies interacted with him, he was able to convince them that he was okay.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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