He was the evil sociopathic spawn of godless socialist Hollywood.
He was actually crazy, so dysfunctional he had to be in a special residence. His parents obviously paid for his “therapy.” I don’t know if this was a private residence or if he had gotten into the state mental health system at that point.
In any case, there is a problem here, which people on this forum are ignoring: he bought these guns legally. In other words, the gun dealer - who would always check the records - saw nothing that indicated he could not sell these guns to this lunatic. And like many people with that type of illness (supposedly a form of autism), Rodgers was obviously fine when he knew he needed to keep it together, as when he was talking to the police. So the gun dealer is not at fault.
The problem is the way we deal with the mentally ill. They can only be committed after the bodies are lying on the ground, and mental health treatment, even for seriously violent disorders, is never indicated so the gun dealers never can get a real idea of the person to whom they’re selling the weapon. This all comes out of the 1970s idea that mental illness was the result of capitalism, and only the mad were truly sane and thus should not be institutionalized...well, you get the general drift.
But unfortunately, it has resulted not only in millions of “homeless” (aka, mentally ill) filling our streets, but mass killings everywhere. And that’s the problem. The mentally ill can kill with anything because they’re very determined - because they’re crazy.