Showing posts with label Mass-Shooting. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Mass-Shooting. Show all posts

Monday, July 7, 2014

UPDATE: 80+ Shot, 14 Dead In Chicago's Bloody Holiday Weekend --Think how bad it would be but for Chicago's "gun control"

July 07, 2014 Abcnews.com , Chicago 0 Comments
UPDATE: Fourth Of July Weekend Toll: 82 Shot, 14 Of Them Fatally, In Chicago

By Gillian Mohney, Jul. 7, 2014, Abcnews.com

Independence Day celebrations were marred by multiple shootings in Chicago that reportedly left at least nine dead and 60 injured.

The first fatal shooting occurred around 2:30 a.m. Friday, kicking off a violent weekend for the city.

Corey Hudson, 34, was killed after a car pulled up and someone inside shot him and a friend on the street. According to ABC News station WLS-TV in Chicago there were also three police-involved shootings on July 4th alone. At least one suspect involved in one of those shootings was killed.

The most recent shootings occurred Sunday night, according to WLS-TV.

They city has been actively combating gang and shooting violence in recent years after a bloody year in 2012, when it was the only city in the nation to record more than 500 homicides.

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To bring down the high murder rate, police have been dispatched by the hundreds in dangerous neighborhoods and government officials have worked with community leaders to try to combat violence.

"We will keep building on our strategy, putting more officers on the street in summer months, proactively intervening in gang conflicts, partnering with community leaders," Police Superintendent Garry McCarthy said in a statement.

The strategy appeared to be working, with the number of homicides falling to 415 in 2013 from more than 500 the year before. However the murder rate was still higher than many other U.S. cities. By comparison New York City, which is more than triple the size in population recorded less than 350 murders in 2013.

As of June 30, there were nine fewer homicides in Chicago than during the same period as last year, according to The Associated Press.

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Wednesday, June 4, 2014

An Alpha Dad's Letter To All The 'Elliot Rodgers' Out There --Too late for Rodgers--and his victims

June 04, 2014 California , Doug Giles 0 Comments
Deranged mass-murderer, Elliot Rodger
By Doug Giles, Jun. 1, 2014, Townhall.com

In the event that there are more Elliot Rodgers out there that are ready to snap because girls way out of your league won’t respond to your creepy advances; and yet, you’re not completely sold on the murder/suicide option: herewith are eight surefire points to move you back to SaneTown, attract a girl worth loving and officially assimilate out of Wussville and into the rarified air of a combobulated man.

1. Drop the “poor you” crap, especially, if you live in the lap of luxury. Chicks don’t want some puss-n-boots who whines about going over molehills in the Garden of Eden. Play the man if you truly wish to draw the attention of a girl who’s worth her salt. And definitely don’t do videos where you bray to the masses that you’re an unhinged, pitiful ass.

2. Get a vision. Visionaries who want to slay a dragon, save a nation and right a wrong are attractive. Solipsistic me-monkeys are repugnant to people of note. God didn’t call you to be a navel gazer. Go out into the desert and get aligned with your eternal purpose and if for some reason your antenna isn’t picking up on God’s higher calling for you, there’s plenty of things currently bigger than your dipstick life to get involved with that’ll help God and country. Get lost in them and, even if you look like Napoleon Dynamite, your passion will make you a chick magnet.

3. If you really want a girlfriend, then don’t go to Katy Perry concerts unless you’re gay; and if you are gay, then quit bitching about girls not liking you.

4. Sell your Beemer and give the proceeds to a wounded vet that’s currently getting no care from the VA of Obamaland. Be self-sacrificial. It’s the Jesus way. And who knows … maybe your altruistic spirit of giving will land you on TV and boom … instant chicks!

5. Instead of pining like a charter member of Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely-Hearts Club Band, use that time to read books and start with the Classics. Girls like leaders and leaders are readers.

6. Spend time with God. Get your identity from Him not culture and certainly not from a chick that roams the Hollywood hills.

7. Embrace rejection and pain. That stuff Elliot squealed about on his video screeds is par for the course for awkward, male teens and twenty-somethings. I was constantly rejected until I pulled my head out of my backside … last year. Rejection and pain is the way of life, hombre. That’s why God created beer.

8. Don’t wish you were someone else. I wasted a lot of time during my early years always wanting to be someone else, and thank God those wishes didn’t come true. With the advent of Facebook I’ve seen how some of those clowns that I looked up to/wanted to be back in high school turned out. Holy crikey, they’re train wrecks. Also, a lot of the girls that I thought I couldn’t live without back in the day morphed into sea-cows. Thank God my prayers weren’t answered back then, eh?

Look, getting rebuffed by hot chicks is the standard for young dorks. It’s the way of the jungle, hoss. Get used to it and get busy bettering yourself and the planet and do us all a favor and shut the heck up.

Finally, please understand that a good dad trains his daughters to avoid lunks like Elliot. We do not teach our daughters to be rude, but we do teach our girls to cudgel off narcissistic crotch rockets and let them know, in no uncertain way, that they aren’t interested in your shallow life if you’re insistent on being a toad.

Source:  www.townhall.com


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Thursday, May 29, 2014

Santa Barbara Shooter's Therapist Has Ties With Hollywood --Had been treating murderer until last year

May 29, 2014 California , Dr. Charles Sophy 0 Comments
Dr. Charles Sophy
By Gary Baum, May 27, 2014, Hollywoodreporter.com

High-profile and controversial Beverly Hills psychiatrist Dr. Charles Sophy was treating Santa Barbara shooter Elliot Rodger during a key period within the year leading up to the May 23 massacre that resulted in seven deaths (including his own), as well as 13 injuries -- according to Rodger's own 137-page manifesto.

Sophy, a prominent Southern California physician who has served as the medical director of the County of Los Angeles Department of Children and Family Services for more than a decade, has in the past been criticized for continuing with his busy role at the troubled mental health agency (where systemic breakdowns contributed to deaths) while maintaining a lucrative private practice and frequent media appearances. His client list is said to have included Paris Hilton, former Spice Girl Mel B and the late Russell Armstrong (whose suicide after battering wife Taylor was central to an early season of The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills). At the same time, he has provided on-air expertise on programs ranging from Celebrity Rehab with Dr. Drew to Flipping Out.

Sophy, one of a number of therapists Rodger met with over the years, did not respond to a request for comment about his care for the 22-year-old, who grew up in the celebrity-studded suburb of Calabasas to parents involved in the film industry. (Father Peter Rodger was an assistant director on the first Hunger Games film, while mother Li Chin, an on-set nurse, once dated George Lucas.)

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Reuters: Parents Of Cal Gunman Describe 'Hell On Earth' --Still calling him "gunman"--even though 3 killed by knife

May 29, 2014 California , Chin Rodger and Peter Rodger 0 Comments
Elliot Rodger
By Susan Heavey, Ellen Wulfhorst; Editing by Sofina Mirza-Reid, May 29, 2014, Reuters.com

(Reuters) - The parents of Elliot Rodger, the gunman who killed six college students in a rampage in southern California, are suffering "hell on earth" knowing their son caused such a tragedy, they said in a statement on Thursday.

Rodger's family members are mourning the victims of Friday's mass shooting more than they are mourning their son, said family friend and spokesman Simon Astaire reading the statement on NBC's "Today" show.

“We are crying in pain for the victims and their families. It breaks our hearts on a level that we didn’t think possible," said the statement he read by Chin Rodger and Peter Rodger, who is a Hollywood film director.

"The feeling of knowing that it was our son’s actions that caused the tragedy can only be described as hell on earth,” they said.

Six students at the University of California at Santa Barbara and the 22-year-old killer died in the stabbing and shooting spree in the seaside community of Isla Vista. Thirteen other people were wounded.

Astaire added that the couple, who are divorced, have "diminished" since their son's killing spree.

"They have gone down in size. They’re virtually unrecognizable," he said.

The parents have not read their son’s manifesto, in which he laid out his plans to exact revenge for being rejected by women, he said. Rodger emailed his deadly plans to several people before he drove through the streets of Isla Vista and gunned people down.

“It's an awful piece of writing. They’re going through absolutely enough at the moment," Astaire said. "They are mourning the victims more than they are mourning their son."

Chin Rodger received a telephone call form her son's therapist about the manifesto on Friday night, and the two parents raced separately to Isla Vista, Astaire has said. The mother heard radio reports about the shootings as she drove, he said.

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Wednesday, May 28, 2014

Shooting Victim’s Dad Learned Of Her Death By Tracking Cellphone --Bob Weiss works at KABC radio

May 28, 2014 Bob Weiss , California 1 Comments
Veronika Weiss
By Francesca Trianni, May 27, 2014, Time.com

Bob Weiss says his daughter was exactly the kind of person who would want to help kids "who weren't the popular" ones, like the shooter

As the University of California, Santa Barbara holds a day of mourning and reflection Tuesday for the six victims killed in a murderous rampage last week, one of the parents of the students killed recounts how he found out about his daughter’s death.

Bob Weiss, whose 19-year-old daughter, Veronika, was killed outsidethe Alpha Phi sorority house near the university’s campus, said that he and his wife raced to the university when they didn’t receive a phone call from their daughter, who would frequently check in with the close-knit family.

While waiting from word from officials, he tracked Veronika’s cell phone online, and realized that it was still on.

“We got on her iPhone and located it in the middle of the crime scene,” Weiss told CNN.

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