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Tearful plea from victim's dad in deadly rampage (More gun laws, nothing about knives)
Yahoo ^ | 5/24/2014 | Yahoo

Posted on 05/25/2014 7:27:45 AM PDT by Dallas59

GOLETA, Calif. (AP) — A man whose son was among the victims killed in a shooting rampage near a California university quaked with grief and rage Saturday as he described his "lost and broken" family and the proliferation of guns he believes led to his son's death.
"Our son Christopher and six others are dead," Richard Martinez told reporters gathered outside a sheriff's station for a news conference the day after the shootings near the University of California, Santa Barbara, where the 20-year-old son was a sophomore. "You don't think it'll happen to your child until it does."

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Government
KEYWORDS: control; guns; knives; murder
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1 posted on 05/25/2014 7:27:45 AM PDT by Dallas59
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To: Dallas59

What does the father of the STABBING victims have to say?


2 posted on 05/25/2014 7:29:56 AM PDT by Cowboy Bob (They are called "Liberals" because the word "parasite" was already taken.)
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To: Dallas59

I’m sorry, but it wasn’t the gun. It was the godless maniac behind the gun.


3 posted on 05/25/2014 7:31:46 AM PDT by Jim Robinson (Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God!!)
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To: Cowboy Bob
Better yet ... why doesn't this guy give a sh!t about the stabbing victims?

Something tells me he's recognized early on in the aftermath of this incident that he has an opportunity to cash in on the grievance industry, and he's jumping on it.

4 posted on 05/25/2014 7:31:56 AM PDT by Alberta's Child ("What in the wide, wide world of sports is goin' on here?")
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To: Dallas59

Don’t intend to be harsh but my father was killed by a sat nite special during a holdup. He was ill prepared to confront violence as were these boys.
If this dad had taught his son to carry and use a gun he would likely be alive today and his assailant dead. The solution to gun crime is to arm the victim, not the criminal.


5 posted on 05/25/2014 7:32:23 AM PDT by Louis Foxwell (This is a wake up call. Join the Sultan Knish ping list.)
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To: Cowboy Bob

Mr. Martinez. Your dead son doesn’t trump my 2nd Amendment rights. Sorry for your tragic loss. Very heartbreaking.


6 posted on 05/25/2014 7:33:53 AM PDT by redreno (Americans don't go Gault. Americans go Postal.)
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To: Dallas59

And nothing about the real problem: the mentally ill.

The three men stabbed to death by Rodgers were his roommates in a “sheltered residence” apartment for the mentally ill. Supposedly he was supervised by therapists.

His parents and the therapists asked the police to check on him because he had been posting violent things on social media. The cops determined that he was ok...based on what? Are they psychiatrists? Plus they’re terrified of being sued if they order an involuntary committal, since the “mental health advocates” have made this practically impossible and a highly risky thing for the person or agency who orders it.

He bought the guns legally. If he was so ill as to have to live in a sheltered residence, why was there nothing in his record that would have enabled the gun dealer to see it when he checked the purchase? It’s not the dealer’s fault, or because the laws on guns aren’t strict enough.

It’s because there’s a problem on how to handle the mentally ill. Blaming “guns” is a convenient excuse.


7 posted on 05/25/2014 7:34:37 AM PDT by livius
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To: Dallas59

A hateful Hollywood liberal rich kid kills similar. Any surprise maybe he went to Kerry’s global warming knew he was problem and fixed it.


8 posted on 05/25/2014 7:35:36 AM PDT by edcoil (Not a single republican was ever a slave owner. They were all democrats.)
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To: redreno

I feel for his loss, and detect a shout-out to gun confiscation foundations to hire him for their cause.


9 posted on 05/25/2014 7:36:29 AM PDT by blackdog (There is no such thing as healing, only a balance between destructive and constructive forces.)
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To: Dallas59
Evil guns and muppets. evil guns photo: Evil Sesame Street tbCAYRZ4C6.jpg It's Evil Elmo again and his Walther PPK. It's always Elmo! Elmo & his evil PPK .....
10 posted on 05/25/2014 7:36:55 AM PDT by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: all armed conservatives)
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To: Dallas59

As sympathetic as I can be for someone who has lost their child, I would still comment that this grief has become a tool of controllers of lives who have no intention of fulfilling ordinary peoples’ dreams or desires. their success in furthering their goals will have no impact, nor would have on his life.

He would be better served condemning the filth sh!thole that Hollywood and urban California has become with its inclusion, diversity, need for government to solve all problems, and a general disrespect for the rest of the citizens in this country.

It has created untold numbers of privileged asswipes of celebrity like the Kardashians, children of entertainment and media luminaries, and all their wannabe hangers on and former celebs whose entire pastimes seem to be pursuit of excess (see, Lohan, Reid, Beiber, Cyrus, et al). And when they don’t get it, they rebel in their own childish and deluded ways.


11 posted on 05/25/2014 7:37:21 AM PDT by Gaffer
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To: Dallas59

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2638474/Son-Hunger-Games-assistant-director-stabbed-3-shot-3-others.html

Good info from the Daily Mail


12 posted on 05/25/2014 7:37:33 AM PDT by headstamp 2 (What would Scooby do?)
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To: Dallas59

A soon as I heard about this I immediately concluded one thing, it was NOT the action of someone who actively and sincerely follows Jesus.

My next thought was....it was either a follower of Mohammad or an Insane Fanatic...but I repeat myself.


13 posted on 05/25/2014 7:38:07 AM PDT by Awgie (truth is always stranger than fiction)
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To: Jim Robinson

And let’s not forget the parents who spawned an entitled, spoiled brat. Classic enabling due to fear of upsetting their Golden Boy.


14 posted on 05/25/2014 7:42:22 AM PDT by Mountain Mary ("Where Liberty Dwells, There Is My Country". Ben Franklin)
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To: Alberta's Child

The families of the stabbing victims should be offended by their loved ones exclusion. You just know the MAIGfots and mom lookin’ for some “action” are already crankin’ their rhetoric filled screeds.


15 posted on 05/25/2014 7:43:53 AM PDT by rktman (Ethnicity: Nascarian. Race: Daytonafivehundrian)
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To: Dallas59

Matthew 19:21


16 posted on 05/25/2014 7:44:11 AM PDT by Berlin_Freeper (You can't be passive and moral.)
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To: edcoil

The kid posted a warning. http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=4fd_1400921453


17 posted on 05/25/2014 7:55:28 AM PDT by neal1960 (D m cr ts S ck. Would you like to buy a vowel?)
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To: Dallas59

I pray for the man and his family. A tragedy. As to the gun control ramblings from this man, grief is talking, not common sense.


18 posted on 05/25/2014 7:56:21 AM PDT by Dallas59 ("Remember me as you pass by, As you are now, so once was I, As I am now, so you will be")
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To: neal1960

Should have added a language alert.


19 posted on 05/25/2014 7:56:22 AM PDT by neal1960 (D m cr ts S ck. Would you like to buy a vowel?)
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To: Cowboy Bob

A car was used to run down a victim or victims. Should we ban cars too?

Liberal logic is nonexistent.


20 posted on 05/25/2014 7:58:03 AM PDT by fatnotlazy
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