Don’t blame the madmen. Blame the guns.
Pretty much says it all.
Is this the story the parents are going to go by now? I guess it took a little time to agree on one.
So, their lawyer has now figured out that instead of trying to appease Gun-Grabbers that don’t have legal stake in this, he/they should have been preparing for the onslaught of negligence lawsuits in identifying the son as a high-risk to the authorities.
My guess is you won’t find any 911 tapes or transcripts or records of calls to police, etc. before that day when they found his ‘manifesto.’
Left to his or her own demise......and sadly Innocent others as well.
In all these cases at this turning point they are allowed to be trusted to take thier meds on thier own refuse mental health help and be unleashed onto society because of the mental health FAILURE constructed by the government. At the age of 18 they should be automatically infirmed and re evaluated before being set free on thier own
This is the fruit of CA values.
The father was into porn art...the mother into desperate housewives.
They taught their son terrible values about women. This is in no way the NRA’s fault.
And that ‘therapy’ told him he was as normal as anyone so as not to stigmatize him...
Which was no therapy at all. And it is solely the responsibility of liberals that the APA was reduced to a behavorial justification department of the federal govt. They closed institutions in the name of ‘rights’, reworded long established facts and made their problems simply vanish with psychotropic drugs.
Except now we see they didn’t. It is only a miracle from God that this does not happen dozens of times daily.
Where did he get the guns? Who gave them to him?
“They are in inconceivable pain.”
Did this kid work? Where’d he get the BMW and the guns? They didn’t think there was a problem until he was issuing manifestos?
Instead of therapy they should have tried parenting.
Sounds like another made up Hollywood story to me, trying to make both parents look like heroes in a CYA piece. If they had such concerns, why not pick up a phone?
Does the “Baker Act” no longer exist?
Did none of these over-paid therapists ever tell the parents to stop giving this psychotic offspring lavish gifts? Make him actually work for something?
They certainly had the right and the obligation to have him committed to a mental institution when years of therapy obviously did not make him function better in society.
Been in therapy since childhood....
So let him live out in the general society, not taking the responsibility of parents by checking his well-being and that of others constantly, and....
Fly him around in private planes, give him a $40K BMW, let him live the life of luxury but don’t give him the skills to cope with life....
Typical libtard parents.
Link to Alpha Phi sorority video - complete w/ bikinis and slip-n-slides.
“But he turned away from mental health at 18...”
Who paid for Elliot Rodgers lifestyle and multi-years at community college? Who in effect paid for the 3 handguns used to kill three kids and wound more? How about the knives that he used to kill three (Asian) roommates? The BMW that he deliberately hit people with? Devastated, Blame-the-NRA Daddy, that’s who. Daddy gave this loser everything without requiring anything of him during his entire life. He continued to finance his son after the step-mom through him out (wonder why...) without seriously monitoring his conduct. Now he wants to blame everything but the mirror.
I wonder if Elliot’s therapists ever suggested he try something called “work”. His all-about-me manifesto never mentions anything about schoolwork, learning anything of value, doing any sort of chores at home, no summer jobs, nothing. No interest in anything but playing. He might have had severe schizophrenia at the end, but without independent evidence, I rather doubt he really had Aspergers — just extreme spoiliation, broken home syndrome, raised by nannies and videogames, a distracted selfish, amoral daddy, no source of moral grounding, shallow materialist values based on looks and status, and a life of unearned rewards, resulting in extreme narcissism. His parents failed to foster self-discipline, structure, and real-world experience that might have given him some self-esteem. Epic fail.
What was the immigration status of little UK-born Elliot? Had he been naturalized? Or was he another fine “Dreamer”?
Most likely hardcore members of the HollyWierd cult who always lecture us how to raise our children. Why would you need to put a kid in therapy at birth?
This is where the earth worship cult leads you.
Pray America wakes up
I read earlier that he had been diagnosed as autistic, possibly suffering from Asperger syndrome. Many people like this are difficult socially, but they’re not homicidal maniacs; however, it’s probably harder to tell when they’re about to go off the rails.
I also read, in one of the first reports, that Rodgers actually was living in a sort of sheltered living situation, and that the apartment was rented by a mental health group of some kind. He lived there with three roommates (the men he stabbed to death), and I would assume the reason that their names did not appear in the press was that it would have been a violation of confidentiality.
He was supposedly under the “care” of therapists at the time of the killings. Fat lot of good it did. And regardless of his parents’ parenting skills, there probably wasn’t much they could do other than try to get treatment for him, as they did. No matter how much money you have, it seems to be impossible to get treatment for a child or dependent with mental problems. There’s always the implication that it’s the fault of the parents (it’s not, except in cases of truly horrible abuse) and therefore they should just deal with it. But how do you deal with a crazy person whose whole view of the world is completely at variance with reality, and who is completely locked into his mental illness in such a way that reality cannot penetrate?
Somebody like that needs residential treatment in a situation where he really isn’t free to come and go, and certainly not free to go out and buy guns, as he did. The apartment, if it was in fact a sheltered living situation, clearly wasn’t a high enough level of confinement or treatment, and furthermore the fact that it probably wasn’t a commitment per se meant that there would be no record of his problem and no way for the gun dealer to check his eligibility for purchasing the guns.
So the problem really goes back to our inability to deal with mental illness.
IF the above is true they have my sympathy...