Friend of Alleged Santa Barbara Shooter Discusses Warning Signs

[yuiyoshida]

[Cali_Democrat]

1. Crazy and creepy. nt

[panfluteman]

2. A Little Sex Therapy Might Have Helped?

Perhaps this might be a case for legalizing prostitution, or making sex therapy with sexual surrogates available to college students. If this guy had been able to get laid in a therapeutic way, maybe he wouldn't have gone off the deep end and had his rampage! Just wondering...

[yuiyoshida]

3. Some how I rather doubt it...

First of all if it had been Therapy he probably wouldn't have gone. Reports I read about him said he totally ignored his appointments. Even if some how talked into this kind of therapy, his mindset would be to just USE women and not consider them in any way his equals. He preferred Blondes. He would never have considered any other woman, and probably called them dogs. If he had a blonde girl friend its likely he would have eventually killed her, for not following his instructions. The men's groups and websites he frequented were his only source of information, which he used in a self serving way. He viewed himself entitled to Sex. He may have said he wanted love, but that's not what was in his agenda. He hated women because they refused to let HIM use them. He saw women as Animals that he could never tame. Its most likely he was unreachable by the time he made the decision to go on a killing spree.

[dsteve01]

6. He felt entitled

to the people he treated as objects. And when he couldn't have his toys--he decided nobody else could live their lives as well. Absolutely morbid. We have a couple million unemployed psychology majors out there. The state could easily expand psychological services for cheap.

I'm going to go write about science, now. Thanks, yuiyoshida.

[KurtNYC]

4. The plot of the movie he mentioned:

(2012) Chronicle

A shy, lonely and outcast teenager Andrew Detmer is bullied and has no friends at high-school and lives with his abusive and alcoholic father Richard Detmer and his terminally ill mother Karen. Andrew buys a camera to film his everyday life. His cousin Matt Garetty drives him to school and invites Andrew to go to a party at night. They meet their schoolmate Steve Montgomery in the party and they overhear a noise and find a hole in a field. They decide to explore the underground and they acquire powers. Soon the trio learns how to control their telekinetic abilities and Andrew becomes the most powerful. But he easily loses his temper and becomes dangerous while Matt tries to control him. When his mother needs a medicine and Andrew does not have enough money to buy it, his darker side overcomes and he becomes a menace.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1706593/plotsummary

I worked for a couple of feature film producers and saw first hand how Hollywood attracts mentally ill people. Among the millions who seek out a healthy dose of action packed entertainment are a handful who see certain films as validating their lives, or worse, as a template. The term "fan" is short for fanatic, so not much balance is implied there. There are so many films which portray one angry white man shooting lots of people -- Falling Down, Terminator, Death Wish, and hundreds more. These films seem to stoke the fires of certain angry white men who identify with the protagonists. Many criminals have cited films as the inspiration for their crimes, one of the more infamous being John Hinckley and "Taxi Driver."

There are many superstitions in Hollywood. One if which is that you should never work on a film that exploits the suffering of real people, (for example a film about the Jonestown mass suicides) but there is no taboo against doing films about superheroes or anti-heroes. But ultimately energy attracts likes energy. The Batman series is about mentally ill villains being hunted by an eccentric billionaire and in Aurora the film attracted that kind of sickness right into the theater.

[JDPriestly]

5. Too much super-hero mythology.

Why can't we present a realistic picture of life to our children? Why do our super-heroes, the super-heroes in our movies, in our mythology have to be so violent?

Rodgers' father might be able to explain that to us.

Why don't we have more mythology that presents kind people as the super-heroes and less that presents killers as super-heroes?

[zebonaut]

7. Some one should have helped this freak get laid

talk about being hard up

[yuiyoshida]

8. I don't see how this would have helped the situation.

The guy has no respect for women. He WANTED TO USE women. Eventually he would have killed a woman if she didn't do what he wanted. He said he wanted a Blonde. He didn't want anything to do with other women. He obviously still hated women.