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2014-05-25 -Lurid Crime Tales-

Eliot Rodger's family: We are against gunz

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Posted by badanov 2014-05-25 00:00|| || Front Page|| [4 views ] Top

#1 My suggestion, do not breed.

Posted by Steven 2014-05-25 02:53|| 2014-05-25 02:53|| Front Page Top

#2 They're against guns.....cause people might shoot back when they go on a rampage.

Posted by Silentbrick 2014-05-25 03:22|| 2014-05-25 03:22|| Front Page Top

#3 Looking at the guy's Facebook page, his fotos, one thing that stands out is that nearly every one of the photos he posted are of him alone. No relations, not even a dawg.

Posted by badanov 2014-05-25 06:53|| http://www.chriscovert.net 2014-05-25 06:53|| Front Page Top

#4 And the guy thought himself as being so cool... All his photos are about him, his joe-cool shades, and his oh-so-cool car. he just needed one last accessory - a hot blonde on his arm to complete the set.

So self-absorbed even Miss. Palm rejected him. That's sad.

Obviously their son wasn't against guns - except perhaps for his victims.

Posted by CrazyFool 2014-05-25 08:34|| 2014-05-25 08:34|| Front Page Top

#5 ..apparently, they were also against any notion of God in imbuing the notion in the lad that he was the center of the universe.

Posted by Procopius2k 2014-05-25 09:01|| 2014-05-25 09:01|| Front Page Top

#6 Hell, I'm staunchly against crap movies like "Hunger Games".

Posted by ed in texas 2014-05-25 09:08|| 2014-05-25 09:08|| Front Page Top

#7 One of the many sad themes of this story is how "the family" asked police for a mental-health visit instead of intervening themselves.

Now they blame guns, though the kid started with a blade. Might easily have been a pipe or bat.

Posted by Skidmark 2014-05-25 10:24|| 2014-05-25 10:24|| Front Page Top

#8 You do wonder if the family had provided him with mental health care all along and just now the kid snapped (being at the age when schizophrenics do such things).

After the Newtown shooting we heard all about the young man there, his mother, the gun collection, etc. Somehow I don't think the press is going to dig as deep on this one. So we'll never know what the family tried to do for their son.

Posted by Steve White 2014-05-25 10:32|| 2014-05-25 10:32|| Front Page Top

#9 By looking at his facebook page he could never get a girl. He was so into himself. Mental health issues are sad ones. His parents might me very anti gun, but they will eventually come to the realization that their son was a sick man. He needed help and others died because he did not get that help. They will certainly wrestle with the question of what they did wrong with this kid for the rest of their lives.

Posted by 49 Pan 2014-05-25 11:19|| 2014-05-25 11:19|| Front Page Top

#10 He stabbed three and ran over four. Are they against cutlery and BMWs as well?

Posted by Frank G 2014-05-25 11:48|| 2014-05-25 11:48|| Front Page Top

#11 Who paid for his BMW?

Posted by Anguper Hupomosing9418 2014-05-25 18:32|| 2014-05-25 18:32|| Front Page Top

#12 By looking at his facebook page he could never get a girl.

Wasn't he fixated on getting a blonde with movie star looks? Seemed like he was setting himself up to fail.

Posted by Zhang Fei 2014-05-25 22:02|| 2014-05-25 22:02|| Front Page Top

#13 Per the father it's all the fault of Politicians and the NRA:

Martinez's father gave a wrenching statement to the news media Saturday afternoon.

He was "a really great kid" whose "death has left our family lost and broken," Richard Martinez said.
No, he wasn't a really great kid. He was a self-absorbed loser of the first order. And now, listening to his father, I think I see where he gets it.

"Our family has a message for every parent out there: You don't think it will happen to your child until it does," the visibly emotional parent said, his voice rising to a shout in obvious agony.
"Why did Chris die? Chris died because of craven, irresponsible politicians and the NRA. They talk about gun rights, what about Chris' right to live?" he continued.
The LOSER took his own life you idiot. In other words he CHOOSE of his own free will to end his life.
"When will this insanity stop?" he said. "When will enough people say, stop this madness, we don't have to live like this? Too many have died. We should say to ourselves -- not one more."
When everyone is allowed to be armed and a loser like your son would be taken out before he kills too many innocent victims.
Police say the shooter also died.
"It would appear that he took his own life," said Brown.

Posted by CrazyFool 2014-05-25 22:05|| 2014-05-25 22:05|| Front Page Top

#14 Uhh CF - Martinez is talking about his son who was shot by Rodger.

Posted by Bangkok Billy 2014-05-25 23:00|| 2014-05-25 23:00|| Front Page Top

#15 Oh crap! My bad! Sorry about that :(. Feel free to remove it.

Posted by CrazyFool 2014-05-25 23:55|| 2014-05-25 23:55|| Front Page Top

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