"When Will The Madness End?"

John Lott's Website: The push for gun control after the Santa Barbara attack: JOHNRLOTT@CRIMERESEARCH.ORG. 5/25/2014

 The push for gun control after the Santa Barbara attack As usual, the media news stories got fundamental facts wrong here. Of particular interest, half the people killed here were stabbed to death. Also, you won't hear this much in the news, the magazines that the killer used were also apparently limited to holding no more than 10 rounds (note that the Sheriff said that all the magazines were legal under California law). Obviously neither point fits the gun control check list.

Here at Geek Central, the editorial policy is:

"Rant 'til your fangs fall out; then click 'publish'."

Fortunately, with the good research skills and the input of more information (being a good writer probably helps, too), John Lott has provided a much more nuanced, pithy and accurate picture of the "Mr Rodger's Shooting" at UCSB.

Initial reports didn't mention that of the six people killed during the rampage, the first three were men who were killed by being stabbed ... repeatedly .. to death in what investigators called "a gruesome scene".

Of the other three fatalities, only one was a female student.  That suggests that Mr. Creep's online manifesto was was even more bullshit than we thought.   He wasn't after the girls that wouldn't date him, he was just on a murder spree.  (Okay, we already had figured that out, hadn't we?)

And there were all those people he attacked with his car.  WTF?  How are the Hopolophobes going to handle that Unfortunate Truth?  Wasn't it the mere fact of firearms possession that drove him to madness?   Apparently not.  Maybe there's a good case to be made here for "Beemer Control".

Firearms Automobile Manufacturers should be sued for not controlling their product more strictly at the retail level.  Shouldn't the dealer at Santa Barbera Beemer Shop & Racing Emporium be held responsible for vending a deadly weapon to an obviously out-of-control purchaser?  Did they do a background check?  Didn't the Manufacturer provide guidelines on who they should allow to buy their Assault Car?

And by the way, who needs a car capable of driving more than 65 miles an hour?  (Oh ... the full-auto attacks were on city streets?  Never mind.)  But still .. who needs a gas tank that will carry more than ten gallons of gas?  If he had to stop to refill his tank, somebody could have jumped him, maybe taken his car keys away.  That would have fixed him!

Ultimately, the facts bear out your original suppositions:   that wasn't about societal injustice, latent homosexual tendencies, or "retribution".  This was "It's All About ME!"

And that's all I have to say about that.

Except ... our hearts go out to the families of the victims, and we hope they sue the people who sold him the knife.

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