Has anyone found out anything about Richard Martinez yet?
It was like he appeared out of thin air on the day of the shooting. He has no Internet presence other than that, no business, no residence, no phone numbers, no photographs.
Importantly, there are several Richard Martinez’s in California, but all the others do not fit his profile.
His son, if it is indeed his son, has an identity, but the father is a blank.
Look at comment #5.... SoFloFreeper said he was a criminal defense attorney, I don’t know how he found that out, but if true it would be interesting to know if he ever helped any clients beat gun charges or defended any armed robbery suspects or even murder suspects. It just seems strange like you said why this guy would be holding press conferences the day of the killing to denounce gun laws rather than mental health laws/issues which is the real reason his son was murdered.
When a psycho is hellbent on killing people, being shot is one of the least gruesome ways they can do it. They had a case here in NYC a few years back where a guy made a flamethrower and burned a woman to death in an elevator. Would Mr. Martinez have preferred his son get killed that way? The point being that if a psycho is hellbent on killing people, he is going to kill people gun or no gun. The issue is not guns, the issue is why psychopaths are being allowed to run amok.
In every single mass murder case we’ve had, the killer was known to be a danger or out of control, yet nothing was done because it is extremely difficult to involuntarily commit someone to a mental institution today, most likely because of prejudice against the mentally ill. If someone gets hit by a car they are immediately taken to a hospital yet the mentally damaged are ignored as if it’s not serious when nothing could be further from the truth. Another reason could be people think those laws would be abused, accusing mentally sound people of being deranged. Instead of focusing on the rights of illegal immigrants, how about they focus on this metal health issue instead?