What influenced Elliot Rodgers: porn, divorce, guns, poor parenting, immaturity?
Last Friday, Elliot Rodger, a 22-year-old student, ran amok, stabbing two roommates and a visitor to death , before he went to a sorority at the University of California, Santa Barbara and shot three young women, killing two of them. Jumping into a black BMW , he went to a delicatessen and shot dead a male student. Jumping back in he began shooting randomly as he drove. After injuring several people, he crashed the car and committed suicide. Elliot Rodger The tally: seven dead and 13 injured. The father of one of the victims, Christopher Martinez, blamed “craven, irresponsible politicians and the NRA [ National Rifle Association ]." "They talk about gun rights," he said. "What about Chris’s right to live? When will this insanity stop?” His anguish is understandable, but half of the victims in this latest atrocity were stabbed to death. A new suspect is “ toxic masculinity ”. Rodger left behind a 140-page manifesto full of hatred for women who ignored h