This is an un-teachable moment. A young man stabbed three people with a knife, hit people with his car, and shot three people next to the University of California Santa Barbara campus Friday evening. This should show us what makes us safe and what doesn’t. It could show us, but we don’t want to learn.
In his published statements, a pampered son blames everyone for his failures, everyone except himself. He drives an expensive car and lives a luxurious life he didn’t earn. He writes about hating his parents and wanting to stab his step mother and half brother. The murderer’s father said he hates guns and wants better mental health treatment.. for his son who has been in therapy since he was eight years old. A father of one of the victims blames the NRA and politicians who allowed guns into the world.. while his son was killed in a gun-free zone.
Do you notice a pattern here? The father blames mental illness. The victims father blames guns and the NRA. The son blamed others for his problems. We are also part of that same pattern. We refuse to learn from past mistakes and we blame others instead of providing real solutions. Let’s stop placing blame.
Let me describe the next public murder for you.
- The murderer has a narcissistic personality and demands attention. He will kill to get his name in the news.
- The murderer attacks people in a gun free zone because narcissists don’t like competition.
- The murderer has mental health issues and is probably on psychotropic drugs prescribed by a doctor.
- The murderer is enthralled by violent video games and spends a lot of his time playing them.
- There are warning signs, and they are ignored.
Making predictions about the media’s reaction to the next public murder is too easy. Liberal media will blame the NRA and lax gun laws. The media will ignore the fact that this murder took place in a gun-control paradise. Look back at this recent murder in Santa Barbara as an example.
- California is rated first as the most gun- restrictive state by the Brady Campaign.
- Santa Barbara sheriff Bill Brown so dislikes armed citizens that he refuses to issue concealed carry permits.
- California has strict gun-free school zone laws so there were no armed defenders within thousands of feet of the UCSB campus.
The crime took place in an anti-gun state, in an anti-gun county, in an anti-gun school zone. This crime should have been impossible.. if gun control actually worked. Evidence screams that gun control doesn’t work, but we won’t learn from our mistakes. Instead, liberal politicians will double down on gun-control and claim it is for the children. The media will support them.
Here comes the new tragedy, same as the old tragedy.. until we learn.
by Rob Morse
https://slowfacts.wordpress.com/2014/05/26/an-un-teachable-moment-of-murder-in-santa-barbara/
