Sunsilver I think you need to read this article if you really want to know what is going on with Australia's gun control...

It's a lot different than you are portraying it...

http://joeforamerica.com/2013/05/look-at-australia-gun-control-works-or-so-they-say/

I did watch the video's Sunsilver,

I'm not a fan of Jon Stewart though, I wouldn't ordinarily watch the show.

I'm certainly not gonna read the 141 page manifesto.

ML,

I am sure I've heard those arguements before and your right.

Mountain Lion, Elliot was not seeing licensed therapists.  He was seeing a psychiatrist for medication and counselors/life coaches for specific social skills.  HUGE difference between those and a licensed therapist.  Also Risperdal is prescribed for other reasons besides schizophrenia.  Elliot had more an Axis II (Personalty Disorder) not schizophrenia.  There is a debate as to whether the others you mentioned were schizophrenic or had personality disorders which would be more accurate. 

See, that's the thing about schizophrenics -- they don't think they're sick. They think the lava lamp that's talking to them is sick.

The percentage of schizophrenics that are dangerous is miniscule.  Your desciption is rather insulting to those with mental health issues and I am hoping you were not trying to be, rather you were just misinformed.  My group read all 141 pages as well and it is not quite what you describe.

it is a slightly less whiny version of Obama's first inaugural address. (How many pages does your manifesto have to be before we can force you to take your medication?)

Interesting thing about medication, it is much less effective than therapy.  The side effects of the medication can cause worse disfunction than the mental health issue alone.   As for the insult to the President, I may not like the guy but your insult is just an example of the stigma that goes along with mental health diagnoses.  Again I am hoping you were misinformed not being insulting on purpose.

Not to pick on the President, but he just opened the gates of hell for a traitor and for the life of me I'm sure there is some covert purpose to it all.

Oops,

that's another topic all together, my bad.

Mindhunt,

either way somone let him slip through the cracks, hell they opened the door for him.

In my opinion.

Also,

I'm confused a bit, was he a US citizen or not?

http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/12-year-wisconsin-girls-stab-friend-19-times-23959855

Prosecutors: 12-year-old girls stabbed their friend 19 times to please a mythological creature they learned about online

Guns are not the problem folks, WAKE UP!

!!!!

was I snoring again?

I musta dozed off while I was reading .....:)

If Elliot had just published he might have made more than the lottery jack pot he wanted so badly.

Mass murder at a sunny college campus in a beach town would normally be considered "newsy," but Elliot Rodger's massacre at the University of California-Santa Barbara last Friday is getting surprisingly little press.


This is not a good case for liberals: The killer was an immigrant, a person of color, and the majority of his casualties resulted from attacks with a car or knife. It makes as much sense to rant about the NRA as to blame the Auto Club of America or the National Knife Collectors Association.


Rather, what we have is yet another mass murder committed by a schizophrenic -- just like those of Seung-Hui Cho, Jared Loughner, James Holmes and Adam Lanza.


Yes, they all used guns. Also, they were all males. They were all college-aged. They all had hair. Those are not distinctive characteristics.


When the last five mass murderers share something that only 1 percent of the population has, I think we've found the relevant common denominator.


Rodger had been seeing therapists since he was 8 years old. Just last year, his psychiatrist, Dr. Charles Sophy, prescribed him Risperidone, an anti-psychotic. But after looking up what Risperidone was for -- schizophrenia -- Rodger decided "it was the absolute wrong thing for me to take" and never did.


See, that's the thing about schizophrenics -- they don't think they're sick. They think the lava lamp that's talking to them is sick.


Rodger's "manifesto" reads like Nikolai Gogol's "Diary of a Madman" -- generally recognized as the first description of schizophrenia, except it's a little repetitive and not well-written, no matter what that "tech guru" says.


I'm one of the few who have read all 141 pages. It is a tale of increasing delusions, paranoia, hallucinations and wild, grandiose self-assessments. In other words, it is a slightly less whiny version of Obama's first inaugural address. (How many pages does your manifesto have to be before we can force you to take your medication?)

http://www.anncoulter.com/

And yet he was legally able to buy guns. Makes me go, HUH and DUH all at the same time. All the rest is just sad and I mean all of it.

No mention of the Hunger Games (Film) and Elliot's parents yet.

Does anyone remember this rampage?
The Killdozer....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PZbG9i1oGPA

Marvin John Heemeyer (October 28, 1951 – June 4, 2004) was a welder and an automobile muffler repair shop owner most known for his rampage with a modified bulldozer. Outraged over the outcome of a zoning dispute, he armored a Komatsu D355A bulldozer with layers of steel and concrete and used it on June 4, 2004, to demolish the town hall, the former mayor's house, and other buildings in Granby, Colorado. The rampage ended when the bulldozer got stuck in the basement of a Gambles store he had previously destroyed. Heemeyer then killed himself with a handgun.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killdozer_(bulldozer)

Killdozer Helicopter News Footage
Marvin John Heemeyer (October 28, 1951 – June 4, 2004) was a welder and an automobilemuffler repair shop owner most known for his rampage with a modified bulldozer. Outraged over the outcome of a zoning dispute, he armored a Komatsu D355A bulldozer with layers of steel and concrete and used it on June 4, 2004, to demolish the town hall, the former mayor's house, and other buildings in Granby, Colorado. The rampage ended when the bulldozer got stuck in the basement of a Gambles store he had previously destroyed. Heemeyer then killed himself with a handgun.