Real or fake video left by mass murderer?

[redwood66]

My personal opinion is that if someone's intent is to kill me then I will use whatever means necessary to protect my life be it knife, ice pick, bat, teeth, feet, pencil, or a GUN - which would be my first choice. If this is in his own apartment then why did his roommate not have some idea of just how crazy he was?

Off topic - FYI for everyone - One of the most important rules in an assault is NEVER EVER allow the assailant to take you anywhere! Fight to the death right where you are by whatever means necessary. And anything can be used as a weapon. Use it! Eyes and genitals are the most vulnerable parts that might allow you time to get away.

 

[Gem Queen]

I have been reading all of your responses.
STILL not one of you have said "I am sorry for your friend's loss" especially on Memorial weekend. How sad that my friends on PriceScope have not given their condolences to someone who knows one of the victim's family.
I have to say that I am speechless.

 

[AGBF]

I have been reading all of your responses.
STILL not one of you have said "I am sorry for your friend's loss" especially on Memorial weekend. How sad that my friends on PriceScope have not given their condolences to someone who knows one of the victim's family.
I have to say that I am speechless.

I am, indeed, sorry for the loss of your friend's daughter (and the tragedy that, therefore, befell your friend, her family, and you). I apologize for not saying so sooner.

Deb/AGBF

 

[KaeKae]

I have been reading all of your responses.
STILL not one of you have said "I am sorry for your friend's loss" especially on Memorial weekend. How sad that my friends on PriceScope have not given their condolences to someone who knows one of the victim's family.
I have to say that I am speechless.

Gem Queen, I am just now coming across this thread. I think your post may have become buried among the others. Please accept my sincere condolences for your friend's loss.

Actually, not knowing which of the young ladies you knew, one of the female victims is from my own community and the same age as my older daughter. They went to different high schools, so I don't think DD knew her. DD does not yet know of the shooting, because she has been on a retreat with her school since last weekend. She comes back Wednesday, and even though she doesn't likely know that young woman, she probably will know some one who did.

My thoughts and prayers are going out to all those touched by this tragedy, including the family of the killer.

 

[redwood66]

I also am sorry for your friend's loss and yes I should have said that sooner so please accept my apology.

 

[Gem Queen]

I do appreciate that on behalf of my friends. I think people lose sight here at times.
We should stand in solidarity for things such as this.
I hope your daughter doesn't know anyone personally. She is just too young to have to endure something like this.
Thank you for stopping for a moment and thinking about the victims, stabbed or shot.

 

[Sparklelu]

I'm sorry if I offended anyone with my first post.

I was shooting( no pun intended) from the hip in response to the tired old, blame the guns, blame the politicians blame everyone but the perpetrator. It's always someone else's fault. Mentally stable people don't take guns and knives and kill people.

While I do think his nurture had something to do with his behavior, it is more likely nature. He was deeply mentally ill. We need to do more in that dept.
Parents have got to have many more places to go for help. The stigma of mental illness needs to be erased.


My good friends have a severely mentally ill son, who they lived in fear of, it wasn't until he set fire to the apartment building they lived in, nearly killing 23 residents, that he was put in a hospital and sentenced to many many years away in treatment facility that they can finally rest.
My heart breaks for parents who have to deal with mental illness. There just aren't enough answers or places to turn to.
One thing I find interesting is that the parents DID reach out to law enforcement to do a welfare check on the son. The police met him outside of his apartment and because he was able to speak coherently and showed no overt signs of mental illness, they never went into his apartment. He later wrote that if they had come inside they would gave discovered his secret plan.
I police officer talking on TV defended this practice, but said he has a trick he employs in such cases, he tells the person, they need a list of medications, so they get to go in to the apt and can look around.

 

[Sparklelu]

I have been reading all of your responses.
STILL not one of you have said "I am sorry for your friend's loss" especially on Memorial weekend. How sad that my friends on PriceScope have not given their condolences to someone who knows one of the victim's family.
I have to say that I am speechless.

Well I will say I'm sorry for your friends loss. It must be unbearable for them.
I'm sorry I could not say anything sooner because I just now logged on, after spending the day with family and friends.

 

[AGBF]

I have been reading all of your responses.
STILL not one of you have said "I am sorry for your friend's loss" especially on Memorial weekend. How sad that my friends on PriceScope have not given their condolences to someone who knows one of the victim's family.
I have to say that I am speechless.

Gem Queen, I am just now coming across this thread. I think your post may have become buried among the others. Please accept my sincere condolences for your friend's loss.

Actually, not knowing which of the young ladies you knew, one of the female victims is from my own community and the same age as my older daughter. They went to different high schools, so I don't think DD knew her. DD does not yet know of the shooting, because she has been on a retreat with her school since last weekend. She comes back Wednesday, and even though she doesn't likely know that young woman, she probably will know some one who did.

My thoughts and prayers are going out to all those touched by this tragedy, including the family of the killer.

And it affects the whole community, whether your daughter knew one of the victims "personally" or not. We (my family) were part of a community who lost people on 9/11 although we did not know anyone "personally". My daughter's elementary school was shell shocked. Parents were missing for days. But in the end not one life at her school was lost. That does not mean we were not affected. We knew how close we came. Your daughter will feel the same way. So let us send you and your family our thoughts and prayers, too, in the spirit of Gem Queen's solidarity. What she wrote-and on Memorial Day-is reminding me of how we did come together as a country after 9/11.

Do you remember how we all felt then? How we never let a flag touch the ground? How we ran into the street if a small one in someone's yard fell down?

Gem Queen's posting reminds me that we had that kind of solidarity once. It would be great to have it again and to come together to support those who are now hurting.

Deb

 

[ksinger]

And in today's "Keeping it classy" news....

Joe The Plumber says..."to parents of Elliot Rodger’s victims: “Your dead kids don’t trump my Constitutional rights”.

http://www.salon.com/2014/05/27/joe_the_plumber_to_parents_of_elliott_rodgers_victims_your_dead_kids_don%E2%80%99t_trump_my_constitutional_rights/