'Those Bastards Need To Pass Gun Control:' Families Of CA Shooting Victims Speak Out

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'Those bastards need to pass gun control': families of California shooting victims speak out. Victims’ families expressed anger while Trump did not address the issue and blamed mental illness, calling the shooter ‘a very sick puppy.’ The Guardian, Nov. 9, 2018.

Shock turned to anger in the quiet suburb of Thousand Oaks on Friday after a man shot 12 dead in a bar, including at least one victim who had survived a previous attack. Former US marine Ian Long entered a country and western bar in Thousand Oaks on Wednesday night and killed 12 people including a sheriff’s deputy. More than two dozen were wounded.

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Some of the country music fans who were dancing but found themselves caught up in the attack had previously been shot at during the attack in Las Vegas just over a year ago, and survived both. But one heartbroken mother spoke out angrily over her son’s death – who had survived the Las Vegas shooting only to die in the tragedy in Thousand Oaks.

“I don’t want prayers. I don’t want thoughts,” said Susan Orfanos, whose 27-year-old son, Telemachus Orfanos, a navy veteran, died on Wednesday night at the Borderline Bar and Grill. “I want those bastards in Congress … They need to pass gun control so no one else has a child that doesn’t come home,” she said, raising her voice to speak through gritted teeth and tears outside her home in the California suburb 40 miles north-west of Los Angeles.

As investigators worked to figure out why Long killed 12 and injured more than two dozen, Donald Trump on Friday did not address the issue of gun control and instead mentioned mental illness. He described the gunman as “a very sick puppy” who had “a lot of problems” as he spoke to reporters outside the White House.
Investigators have not commented on a motive for the attack or whether mental illness played a role.

But neighbors reported hearing frequent loud fights between Long and his mother, one of them in April so extreme they called police, and authorities at the time worried that Long, a 28-year-old Afghanistan war veteran, might have had post-traumatic stress disorder. They did not seek to have him treated at a mental health institution, however. -More...

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