Almost all of the deranged, deadly mass shootings over the last 25 years were done by someone on anti-depressants or pain killers. Elliot was on Xanax and Vicodin. Side effects of Xanax (prescribed for anxiety and panic) are mental problems, confusion, hallucinations, hostility, thoughts of suicide, rage, aggression, and mild degree of mania. Vicodin, used for pain relief has side effects of guilt, shame, and depression, confusion, fear, unusual thoughts of behavior. When will we recognize that America is being destroyed by drugs–legal and illegal?

Elliot had major problems from his earliest years with everyone close to him contributing to his failure. He was born in England to the privileged family of Peter and Li Chin Rodger. His father was from England and his mother from Malaysia. Elliot lived in large, impressive homes, taking many foreign vacations. He wrote, “At the age of 4, I, Elliot Rodger, had already been to six different countries. Who can claim that, eh? The United Kingdom, France, Spain, Greece, Malaysia, and the United States.” And much of that travel was first class with first class accommodations in expensive beach hotels.

He was enrolled in an “upscale all-boys private school” (preschool) but he did not like it because he had to wear socks up to his knees! Poor, poor boy. He also thought the rules were “too strict.” Elliot confessed that he threw a temper tantrum at his third birthday party because his parents gave the first piece of cake to a friend. He thought that was unjust. He had to be the center of the universe. He got his first video game at age 6 and had “all the toys a little boy could want.” He had a nanny, and at one time, two nannies, until he was eleven years old!

A baby brother was born to the family just before they moved to America into “a big white house” in the upscale part of Woodland Hills, California. Elliot was enrolled in Kindergarten at a small private school named Pinecrest. His teacher required him to do some work after class (gasp!) so after two weeks he was enrolled in another private School. Quitting, along with whining was the main characteristic of Elliot.

Like most children he discovered that he got his way with tears. Eighteen times he wrote in his infamous 137-page manifesto, “I cried.” When he finished high school and was visiting in Morocco he broke down and cried in front of his step-mother’s family. Even when grown, he cried almost every day.

He was “absolutely shocked, outraged” when he was told at 7 that his parents were going to divorce. He wrote, “My mother and father got into a lot of arguments.” Shortly after the divorce his father had a “girlfriend” and Elliot was shocked since he thought a couple had to be married to live together. Hummm, I did too.

He began to accept his stepmother Soumaya (now a television actress) who was from a prominent family in Morocco, but he soon resented her because she presumed to discipline him. He didn’t like the rules she put in place. She even sent him to his room for an hour! (Wow! Call the Child Protection Agency!) After the divorce, he lived with each parent on a set schedule since they both lived in the general area.

His father, an assistant director of the “Hunger Games,” and stepmother Soumaya had a baby girl and later moved to a large house in the most prestigious part of Woodland Hills. Elliot chose his bedroom before the sale but was told that the baby would get the room since the desired room was closer to the master bedroom. Elliot wrote that “I was furious, and I threw a huge crying tantrum.” A few days later he was told that he could have the room he wanted. Elliot was at least normal in one respect: he learned how to manipulate his parents.

He wrote, “At mother’s house, I had it my way more often, and that’s how I wanted to live.” When he stayed with his father and stepmother, she often tried to discipline him. He admitted, “Mother always got me what I wanted, right when I wanted it. At mother’s house, all of my needs were met with excellent precision.” A monster was in the making! His mother even arranged “playdates” for him with other boys from school even when he was 16 years old! He mentions his “playdates” 27 times in his manifesto! No normal 16-year-old child needs or wants help with “playdates.”

At age 12 he played video games until 3:00 a.m. at Planet Cyber, a cyber café not far from his mother’s house! What sane parent or nannie would permit a child to be out until 3:00 a.m.? The video game, World of Warcraft (WoW) became an obsession. WoW is probably the most popular video game in the world. It is violent and features zombies, monsters, dragons, elves, and alien worlds. Elliot wrote, “It was all I would think about when I wasn’t able to play it.”

Elliot often spent five hours playing the game and his grades dropped precipitously. He wrote, “I was too absorbed in my game to care about anything else.” He later admitted to playing WoW 14 hours per day! Eventually, the game lost some of its luster and he wrote, that he “often broke down into tears” while playing. His stepmother tried to limit his game time and tried to make him do chores around the house but he “despised doing work around the house.” In that respect he was normal; however, children must be taught to work and be held accountable for the work.

Rather than playing violent video games, a young person should be doing household chores, playing with friends, going to church or youth activities, doing homework, talking with parents, playing with siblings, etc. In other words, learning to live.

On his 13th birthday he was permitted his first bottle of beer although he was given sips of wine much younger. As he got older, he drank often to hide from the world and himself. About this time a friend showed him pictures of “beautiful naked girls” and he wrote, “Ominous fear swept over me.” It seems from this time he longed, leered, and lusted after beautiful, blonde girls and hated them for not jumping all over him and hated and resented all boys who had a girlfriend. He could not be happy even with all the pills, passion, and privilege in his life. It is my opinion that he did not love girls but feared and hated them.

It seems all the adults in his life could not or would not tell him “no,” the most important word in the English language.

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Recently a 10-year-old Alexandria, Virginia boy was arrested after police said he brought a toy handgun to school. The boy was charged as a juvenile with brandishing a weapon, police said. The boy was also suspended from school and the brilliant school superintendent assured everyone that further action was being considered, including expulsion. Should one of those educators or policemen have said, “Maybe we are a little hasty here. The boy did not have a weapon. He had a toy, an obvious toy. Why don’t we all breathe deeply and count to ten?” They did not because they are a bunch of idiots with badges (and worse, they have guns!) and educators with accredited degrees who are dumb as a box of rocks. Could they even count to ten?

That boy with a toy plastic gun was arrested and suspended while a Texas teacher received a short suspension for pouring real shavings of a real pencil sharpener down a real boy’s throat. Boy, those educators are serious people, aren’t they? I mean, they know what’s really important. They only suspend a stupid and dangerous teacher and arrest and suspend a kid with a toy! Yep, the loonies are in control.

A police spokeswoman said that the boy showed the toy gun to another student but did not point it at anyone or threaten to shoot it. However, the boy did not tell his friends that the plastic gun with an obvious orange barrel tip was not real! Maybe he did not because he would have felt like a fool to do so. The police got to the school ahead of the boy early Tuesday morning since this was such a serious and dangerous case.

When the boy arrived at school, authorities found the toy in his backpack. He was taken into custody, transported to a juvenile detention center for booking, and then released to his parents.

A school official said, “The safety of our students is always our first concern. We appreciate the quick response and action by our police.” Yeah, and I’ll bet local citizens would appreciate such haste when they have a burglary, assault, or a prowler in the neighborhood. I wonder if parents get a “quick response” from school officials when they ask why their sixth grade kids can’t read. And what about the safety and well-being of this 10-year-old boy?

A silly police spokeswoman said, “In light of current events involving schools and guns, police do have a heightened sensitivity to any rumor or concern” about a student possibly having a firearm. But the student didn’t have a firearm. He had a plastic toy that had an orange tip in the barrel. Are these people trying to showcase stupidity? Is it now “cool” to be brainless? Or is this simply a way to make a radical, leftist statement: “Guns are evil, even play guns and pictures of guns. We stand for righteousness, decency, safety, and the American way.” Not the America where I grew up. Maybe they are pumping for a White House visit or at least a mention by the President. But then it may be to make the point that only “government officials” should have guns! Fools!

A seven-year-old Maryland student was suspended for shaping his breakfast Pop-Tart into a “gun” by mistake. He said he was trying to “make a mountain” but it broke. The kid was making a mountain out of a Pot-Tart and the adults were making a mountain out of a molehill. He was playing! That’s what kids do if only stupid adults would come back to the real world, do their own jobs, and leave the kids alone. He didn’t plan on shooting anyone with his broken Pop-Tart!

Recently two kindergarten boys were suspended for “shooting” with their fingers and saying, “pow.” Wow, we have a crime spree on our hands led by kindergarten students! They are probably part of a crime syndicate! Probably out of Chicago. A second grader in Colorado was suspended for pretending to throw a hand grenade at “evil forces” to “save the world.” He “threw” the pretend grenade at a pretend box of pretend evil doers. Serious business! He said, “I was trying to save people and I just can’t believe I got dispended.” I can’t either. The authorities should have been “dispended” and let the kid run the school.

Maybe it is confession time so here goes: I confess to “shooting” a little boy in front of the Ringgold, Georgia Post Office. I walked out the front door and saw a small boy sitting in a truck directly in front of me. Our eyes met and I knew he was up to no good. My juices started to flow, the left corner of my mouth dropped as I sneered and I immediately drew my finger, stretched back my thumb and shot him point blank, beating him to the draw. He grabbed his chest as he fell over into the front seat of the truck. Not sure how many times I hit him. Since that happened on Federal property, I’m sure I broke one of the stupid gun laws, so come and get me.

Yes, loonies are running our schools, police departments, media, and most political offices. Where were these fanatics when I was in a West Virginia elementary school? I would have been thrilled to be suspended for a few days. I “shot” students every day and no one objected, not even those being “shot.” Of course, the teachers and administrators were too busy educating students to make fools of themselves as their modern counterparts do.

If such jerks were in our school system in those days and acted like modern jerks, we would have literally run them out of town! Or maybe horsewhipped them at the courthouse square.

But “you can’t fix stupid” as a famous philosopher said.