<p>And in fact almost exactly a year ago there was a shooting at SMCC. Six people died, starting with the killer’s father and older brother. Reading about the case now, the background–a father who threatened to kill his wife and children, domestic abuse, a high school teacher finding the shooter researching online how to make explosive devices, the discovery of bombmaking materials at his home when he was in high school, a commitment to UCLA’s Neuropsychiatric Institute–is sobering. I don’t remember a 90-page (so far) discussion about why that killer murdered others. Not surprising–because it didn’t SEEM surprising. These lengthy threads only come up when the murderer’s background is unremarkable. </p>
<p>So, I think if they had wanted to get a search warrant during those 20 days a decent case could have been made. But someone with some good reasons was going to have to push for it. Weapons check I agree with completely.</p>
<p>His mother didnt buy him a BMW in response to his refusing to take Respirdal. Thats ridiculous. Can you provide a link to that editoral? Would love to see what else is there.</p>
<p>Shrinkrap, my younger patients text if running late, or need change in appointment time. In my initial contract, it states email and texts are not confidential and therefore not to be used for therapeutic means. This theme is repeated at every CeU course on regulations. I’ve only had 1 patient abuse texts and emails, and she is no longer a patient. </p>
<p>MaineLonghorn, I am amazed your son’s psychiatrist is working for free! Even if I don’t collect, it costs me money to see someone. </p>
<p>Why are you so hung up on the video? Do you think if they saw the video they would have realized he was a crazed killer? The early video was not about the retribution. </p>
<p>@actingmt I think he took some down, he was saying ‘perhaps I shouldn’t have shown so much anger’. A couple of accounts are saying it was more than videos that there were some social media posts threatening people but since some accounts say that and some don’t I don’t really know if those were brought up at that time. If they were, it seems they could have been reviewed. Googling him might have brought them up, too.</p>
<p>GP, yeah, ER told his Mom HE was thrown off the ledge in a bullying incident because he spoke back to someone and she believed it so much the family attorney’s initial statement was along the lines of ‘here is a guy bullied so much he finally snapped’. The BMW was not related in time to the Risperadone issue, obviously, and for all we know it might have been the reason he went to the last counselor in Santa Barbara. </p>
<p>However, there is a joke, “Q: How many psychiatrists does it take to change a light bulb?” “A: Only one but it has to really want to change.” This was a guy who wrote that his parents sending him to professional after professional was a waste of money because they all said the same thing and none of it was helpful in the face of the unjust world he faced. It is possible other counselors might have helped, but it is also possible he simply wasn’t listening.</p>
<p>I am not sure about the timing of the mother giving ER the BMW and his refusing to take the Respirdal. However, it may be useful to see ER’s perception of what the BMW meant to him and why the mother gave it to him. It also useful to see what he did everyday in SB. </p>
<p>Quotes from his manifesto"</p>
<p>"To make me feel more confident, my mother provided me with a better car to drive in Santa Barbara, a BMW 3 series Coupe. I had always wanted this, since I cared a lot about my appearance. I had been asking my parents for a more upper-class car ever since I found out that there was a car hierarchy, and that some students at my college drove better cars than others. Now I was one of the students with a better, high-class car.
Having a nicer car than most other students my age did indeed make me feel more confident. Mother should have bought this car for me when I first moved to Santa Barbara. It made me feel better about going out more while I was there. This, coupled with my newly healed leg, gave me one last twinge of hope as the remaining months of 2013 passed.</p>
<p>Nothing came out of my desperate outings in Santa Barbara during the last months of 2013. Girls still didn’t show any interest in me. I drove to SBCC a lot, even though I was only signed up for online classes. While there, I saw other boys who had inferior cars driving around with hot girls in their passenger seats. I have a BMW and never had any hot girl in my passenger seat. Not once. It only made me fume with rage. Santa Barbara was such a beautiful town, but I could go nowhere without being insulted by my enemies. The mere sight of them enjoying their happy lives was an insult to me, because I deserve it more than them.</p>
<p>In the first months of 2014, which are the last months of my life, I tried to make the most out of every day. There was no a single day where I stayed in my room. Every morning, I set out in my BMW to go on adventures around the vicinity of Santa Barbara and Montecito, and I wouldn’t return until late in the night. I went on hikes in the mountains of Montecito, wandered around aimlessly in beautiful parks, took strolls along the beach, sipped lattes at various cafes, and watched the sunset at my many contemplation spots, staying there until the stars lit up the night sky. Every time I did this though, there was no escaping the sight of young couples doing the exact same thing together. It made me even more eager for the Day of Retribution to come. My life was a living hell, and that hell needed to come to an end." </p>
<p>The Risperadone came from Dr. Sophy according to ER. He saw him last in 2012.</p>
<p>Edit to add - Videos of his SB sightseeing excursions are still up on his YouTube channel. The family removed everything else the day after the shooting spree.</p>
<p>GP I had read that and I know it was part of his ‘recipe for success’ with the flipside that having it, he was entitled to success. So was his hair cut, and so were his glasses and clothes. It wasn’t the object that made him that way</p>
<p>I almost can’t read this crap anymore. And I wish I had never seen his smug face on those videos. Mentally ill or not, this guy likely elicited no sympathy ever from anyone except his parents and those paid to spend time with him.</p>
I must not be a person with a “good” heart toward those who are unfortunate to get the “bad” gene, because all I can think of when I read this quoted sentence is: What had he done in his life makes him believe he deserves it more than them? He deserves more helps because of his mental disease from the family and the society. This is for sure. But deserve a “hot” girl? Does any of these girls owe him anything?!</p>
<p>This also reminds me of the story of Einestein’s first wife and her youngest son who developed a mental problem in his late teens. At one time, she tried to match one of her student tenants with her youngest son. It was selfish of her to make this move (because she is his mother and this is what a mother will naturally do for her offspring!) but that female student rejected it. In that case, why did the mother suffer more than the father, our famous scientist, even though they contribute equally to the “his suffering”? Male priviledge in that “more than a century old” society is only reason I can think of.</p>
<p>BTW, in ER’s case, this could be not true. But Einestein’s wife suffered in her marriage also partly due to where she was brought up – Einestein’s parents had a hard time to accept her because of the ethnic group she belongs to.</p>
<p>I could imagine that the Hollywood’s high SES environment in which ER was brought up did a lot of damage to him because he seems to be very sensitive to the “less popular” half of his ethnic group composition.</p>
<p>@mcat2 I take it you didn’t see the excerpts where he says that since magnificent gentlemen aren’t selected by hot blondes and inferior brutes (including those in lesser cars or of what he perceives to be a lesser race) get hot blondes, the choice of whom to mate with should not be allowed to women, that instead women should be rounded up in concentration camps with most starved to death and a select few kept for breeding stock for men selected by magnificent gentlemen like himself? He said otherwise civilization could not progress and this was too important to be left to irrational women making their own choices.</p>
<p>@collegevettiing, I indeed did not read that. He seems to be more sick than I thought.</p>
<p>Regarding “irrational women”, there is a researcher who claims that during the ovalation(sp?) period, a female may prefer a male more likely based on his physical attributes, less on other attributes like SES.</p>
<p>If ER is short (how short is he anyway?) and women everywhere on the Earth indeed prefer a tall man, it may be “healthier” for such a snowflake person like him to grow up in a country (e.g., her mother’s birthplace) where he is at least not that short. Who knows, maybe many young people in many developing countries which are late in joining the “industrial revolution and mass environmental pollution” wagon even envy his “Eurasian” look. </p>
<p>@mcat2 It is possible there may be a shortage of hot blondes there. For someone thinking women should broaden their selection, he cast a mighty narrow net himself. And he saw no hypocrisy in this. He simply said they were the only ones he was attracted to so they were the ones who should approach him. His stepmother did take him to Malaysia on what was supposed to be a long term trip and he went into a fit until his mother finally agreed to fly there and bring him back. </p>
<p>This part of his personality is what rings as NPD to me. I also wonder if it is a part of his aspergers (if he indeed had it) that was an obsessive type of hyper focussing. As another poster said “the perfect storm”. You have a kid with aspergers who becomes obsessed, in puberty with blond “hot” girls and he perseverates on the subject. This combined with his normal adolescent hypersexuality starts the problems in motion.</p>
<p>Does anyone remember the movie “Minority Report”? It was about a society that used psychics to predict crimes so that intervention could be in place before it occurred. My mind keeps going back to this film because I wonder if THAT would be the only way to ever truly insure this never happens again. </p>