Last night at around 10pm, the town of Isla Vista (an unincorporated township next to the University of California, Santa Barbara) experienced a terrifying succession of driveby shootings.
Nine places were hit, and there are seven confirmed dead along with the perpetrator. He drove a black BMW and policemen on foot shot him as he drove through one of the streets.
I heard the gunshots last night and told my housemates, they thought they were fireworks. Little did we know, the police sirens we heard outside were in fact following a car that was driving over and firing at pedestrians. One of my fraternity brothers was at the local Pizza My Heart when the gunshots went through the window, and one hit somebody outside.
I don't know if posting this goes against some tenet of not publicizing these atrocities so that they aren't encouraged but I thought a thread was appropriate to let you all know the situation/allow community members who live in the area to discuss.
“I will be a god compared to you. You will all be animals. You are animals, and I will slaughter you like animals. I hate all of you. Humanity is a disgusting, wretched, depraved species," he says.
"Yes, after I have annihilated every single girl in the sorority house I'll take to the streets of Isla Vista and slay every single person I see there."
Never knew getting rejected by women can lead to you hating all of humanity and wishing for their death. Given, they haven't said it was him but there seems to be a connection. Either way, this is horrific and sad that it still happens. Condolences to the families
“I will be a god compared to you. You will all be animals. You are animals, and I will slaughter you like animals. I hate all of you. Humanity is a disgusting, wretched, depraved species," he says.
"Yes, after I have annihilated every single girl in the sorority house I'll take to the streets of Isla Vista and slay every single person I see there."
Never knew getting rejected by women can lead to you hating all of humanity and wishing for their death. Given, they haven't said it was him but there seems to be a connection. Either way, this is horrific and sad that it still happens. Condolences to the families
Well given mainstream media logic and them blaming videogames for shootings in the past, perhaps we should now blame women for this shooting. Seems fair to me.
Clearly the work of a lunatic, the amount of cognitive dissonance it must take to decide to go on a killing spree to punish the world for not recognising what a great guy you are is pretty colossal. My condolences go to the families of the victims and to the parents of the shooter for whom this must be a particularly difficult time. His other victims were just random senseless acts of violence that defy explanation but I feel that the losing your son, who they clearly doted on enough to spoil, and having everyone else think he's a monster, combined with the feelings of guilt, of wondering what you did wrong, whether there was something you could have done and being unable to be comforted in your grief by your friends due to what he did must be awful.
Without any friends to speak of there was probably no-one to whom the warning signs were obvious, although some of the people he interacted with online told him he was a creep and a psychopath. Some people are just broken and malfunction if left unfixed.
This is a horrible thing. I watched a couple of those videos, and it's truly terrifying hearing the stuff he says. It's a tragedy that shootings happen so frequently.
“I will be a god compared to you. You will all be animals. You are animals, and I will slaughter you like animals. I hate all of you. Humanity is a disgusting, wretched, depraved species," he says.
"Yes, after I have annihilated every single girl in the sorority house I'll take to the streets of Isla Vista and slay every single person I see there."
Never knew getting rejected by women can lead to you hating all of humanity and wishing for their death. Given, they haven't said it was him but there seems to be a connection. Either way, this is horrific and sad that it still happens. Condolences to the families
Well given mainstream media logic and them blaming videogames for shootings in the past, perhaps we should now blame women for this shooting. Seems fair to me.
while I understand your point, I don't think this is the right place to take about videogame and violence etc...
On May 25 2014 08:04 hifriend wrote: Swedish news reporting that he lured a bunch of people into his apartment and killed them the day before...
Pretty tough life: college education, rich parents, lives in nice town. The only sensible thing would be to exact revenge for all the terrible things that happened in your life.
I had friends at UCSB when this happened. I saw this stuff on Facebook earlier, condolences to all involved. My heart goes out to y'all, I hope this never happens again.
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