Elliot Rodgers’ Youtube threats [& “manifesto”], which reportedly included threats to murder specific family members as well as others, should have been sufficient to institutionalize or prosecute him.
In most (if not all) jurisdictions, making “terroristic threats” is a crime. Threatening to commit multiple murders, including threats against specific individuals, would certainly qualify as a “terroristic threat”.
I.E. A quick Google turned up felony prosecutions for things such as making death threats via twitter. [E.G. Harrison William Rund of St. Paul, Minnesota.]
If one can be charged with a felony for making a death threats via twitter, one could certainly be prosecuted for making death threats via Youtube.
Authorities had ample warning and opportunity to intervene in this case. Instead, they chose to do nothing.
The killer was actually already living in a sheltered apartment for the mentally ill - the first three victims (whom he stabbed to death) were his roommates. He was under the supervision of therapists, and in fact the therapists and his parents asked the police to check on him and the police decided he was ok.
First of all, why is that decision up to the police? Don’t the “therapists” do anything to earn their salaries?
Secondly, it says he bought the guns legally. Did he buy them before he was diagnosed with his illness? Or did he buy them while already living in a mental health facility, because mental illness advocates (mostly the same as the “homeless” advocates) have prevented such things from being recorded in any way, and thus the gun dealer wouldn’t have found anything when he checked?
The problem is mental illness and the way we deal with it. The “advocates” haven’t gotten them any better care, they’ve just covered up the problem - in between eruptions. All of the recent mass killers have been mentally ill and even under “treatment” at the time of their rampages.