Another day, another mass shooting
by digby
Oh God —
A young man who posted a chilling YouTube message declaring his intent to take revenge on the world for his own sexual rejection may be involved in the shooting death of six people near the University of California.
In the video entitled “Elliot Rodger’s retribution”, the young man describes his loneliness and rage, saying, “girls gave their affection and sex and love to other men but never to me”.
“Girls, all I’ve ever wanted was to love you and to be loved by you. I’ve wanted sex. I’ve wanted love, affection, adoration. You think I’m unworthy of it. That’s a crime that can never be forgiven. If I can’t have you girls, I will destroy you. “This is my last video, it all has to come to this. Tomorrow I will have my revenge against humanity, against all of you.”
He says that although he is 22 he has never even been kissed or had sex.
Police at a press conference said the video would “appear to be connected” to the shooting.Police say the suspect sprayed gunfire from his black BMW and exchanged shots with officers twice before the car crashed. The suspect was found dead with a gunshot wound to the head, although it is not yet known if it was self-inflicted.
A semi-automatic handgun was recovered from the scene.
The shootings occurred at several sites, resulting in nine crime scenes.
Police said they have made a “preliminary” identification of the suspect but have not released the name.During a press conference, Santa Barbara Country Sheriff Bill Brown said police were “analysing both written and videotaped evidence that suggests that this atrocity was a pre-meditated mass murder”.
The shooting began at around 9.30pm near a Santa Barbara college campus. Within a few minutes seven people, including the suspect, were dead and another seven wounded.
He’s a psychopath, obviously, but he’s also a misogynist who vividly expressed the angry entitlement that some men have toward women.
That is one scary young man. I’m sure glad he was able to get his hands on a gun so he could mow down young women.
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