Father blames government 'idiots' as California town mourns killings
Reuters
By Dana Feldman
SANTA BARBARA, California (Reuters) -
With a California town grieving the
deaths of six college students killed by a mentally ill man, one victim's
father on Monday blamed the killings on politicians who failed to tighten gun
laws after a mass school shooting in Newtown,
Connecticut.
Richard Martinez, whose son
Christopher Michael-Martinez, 20, was gunned down on Friday night in Isla Vista, California,
said similar rampages would continue until lawmakers took action on guns.
"We're all proud to be
Americans. But what kind of message does it send to the world when we have such
a rudderless bunch of idiots in government?" Martinez said on CNN.
"I can't tell you how angry I
am. It's just awful, and no parent should have to go through this."
Elliot Rodger, 22, the son of a Hollywood director, fatally stabbed three people in his
apartment before shooting three people dead near the University of California at Santa Barbara.
Jose Cardoso pays his respects at a makeshift memorial in
front of the IV Deli Mart, where part of F …
He then shot himself. All of those
killed were students at the school.
Michael-Martinez, described by his
father as articulate and tough, was shot inside a deli. He was the last in the
killing spree to die.
Martinez said his son died because Congress had failed to act after
a mentally ill gunman killed 26 people in December 2012 at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut.
"These people are getting
rich sitting in Congress. And what do they do? They don't take care of our
kids," he said.
Legislation after Sandy Hook to extend background checks for gun sales, ban
assault weapons and limit magazines' capacities failed to clear the Senate in
April 2013. Gun-rights advocates strongly opposed the measures.
CLASSES CANCELED
The University
of California at Santa Barbara, which is headed into its final
exams, canceled classes on Tuesday for a day of mourning and reflection. It
scheduled a memorial service for Tuesday afternoon.
"On Tuesday we will remember
and honor the victims of this horrible event, and come together as an academic
community to reflect, talk with each other, and think about the future,"
Chancellor Henry Yang and interim Executive Vice Chancellor Joel Michaelsen
said in a statement on the school's website.
The university also has set up counseling
services and emergency housing for displaced students.
About 200 people attended a
memorial service late on Sunday at St. Mark's University Parish, pausing in
front of poster boards dedicated to three of the dead, Veronika Weiss, Katie
Cooper and Michael-Martinez.
Rodger killed two women and four
men, aged 19 to 22, and wounded 13 people, including eight whom he shot as he
sped through town in his black BMW, exchanging fire with police, authorities
said.
Minutes before opening fire,
Rodger emailed his plans to some 30 people, including his mother, father and
former teachers, said Cathleen Bloeser, whose son was a childhood friend of the
shooter and received a copy.
Rodger stated his intention to
kill his housemates, lure others to his home to continue the mayhem, slaughter
women in a sorority and bring his spree to the streets of Isla
Vista.
Family friend Simon Astaire told
Reuters that Rodger's mother, Chin, received a phone call on the night of the
shooting from his therapist alerting her to the manifesto. She called police
and her ex-husband, Peter Rodger, and the two raced to Isla
Vista, Astaire said.
Chin heard radio reports about the
shootings as she drove.
Santa Barbara County Sheriff Bill
Brown said that Rodger was seen by a variety of healthcare professionals and it
was "very, very apparent he was severely mentally disturbed."
Brown said his department had been
in contact with Rodger three times. They included a welfare check at the
request of his family in which deputies found him to be polite and courteous
and not appearing to meet criteria for involuntarily incarceration.
Astaire said Rodger had seen
therapists off and on since he was 9.
The Los Angeles Times published
portions of Rodger's roughly 140-page manifesto in which he detailed his fear
that police would foil his plot when they visited him last month.
"I had the striking and
devastating fear that someone had somehow discovered what I was planning to do,
and reported me for it," Rodger wrote.
2012 at Sandy
Hook Elementary School
in Newtown, Connecticut
2012
massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School was a mass shootings 28 killed, including gunman.
Note: Newtown (CT) was
the location of the 2012 massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School.
Martin Feinberg
is a Newtown (CT) resident, and Stephen A. Feinberg’s father.
Stephen A.
Feinberg is Martin Feinberg’s
son, the CEO for Cerberus Capital
Management L.P., and a trustee at the Public
Theater.
Cerberus
Capital Management L.P. is the owner of the Freedom Group.
Michael P.C.
Carns is a director at the Freedom
Group, and was a director at the Atlantic
Council of the United States
(think tank).
Open
Society Foundations was a funder for the Atlantic Council of the United
States (think tank), and the American Constitution Society.
George
Soros is the founder & chairman for the Open Society Foundations, and the chairman for the Foundation to Promote Open Society.
Foundation
to Promote Open Society was a funder for the Urban Institute (think
tank), and the Brookings Institution (think tank).
George Soros
was the chairman for the Foundation to Promote Open Society.
Melvin L.
Oliver was a trustee at the Urban Institute (think tank), and a
professor at the University of California Santa Barbara.
Vernon
E. Jordan Jr. is a life trustee at the Urban
Institute (think tank), an honorary trustee at the Brookings Institution
(think tank), Valerie B. Jarrett’s great uncle, a director at the American
Friends of Bilderberg (think tank), and a 2008 Bilderberg conference
participant (think tank).
Cyrus F.
Freidheim Jr. is an honorary trustee at the Brookings Institution (think tank), and a member of the Commercial Club of Chicago.
Valerie B. Jarrett
is Vernon E. Jordan Jr’s great niece, the senior
adviser for the Barack Obama
administration, and a member of the Commercial
Club of Chicago.
Commercial Club of Chicago,
Members Directory A-Z (Past Research)
Tuesday, December 17, 2013
Kathleen
Brown is a member of the Commercial Club of Chicago, married to Van Gordon Sauter, Jerry Brown’s
sister, and was the California
state government treasurer.
Van Gordon Sauter
is married to Kathleen Brown, and
was the president of CBS.
Jerry Brown
is Kathleen Brown’s brother, and the California state government
governor.
NRA-ILA (Jerry Brown’s Gun Control
History)
William
M. Daley is a member of the Commercial Club of Chicago, a contributor
for the CBS News, and was the chief
of staff for the Barack Obama
administration.
CBS
News is a subsidiary of CBS.
R.
Eden Martin is the president of the Commercial
Club of Chicago, and counsel at Sidley
Austin LLP
Michelle
Obama was a lawyer at Sidley Austin
LLP.
Barack
Obama was an intern at Sidley Austin
LLP.
Newton
N. Minow is a senior counsel at Sidley
Austin LLP, a member of the Commercial
Club of Chicago, and was a director at CBS.
Faith Elizabeth
Gay was an attorney at Sidley Austin
LLP, is a director at the American
Constitution Society, and a trustee at the Public Theater.
Stephen A.
Feinberg is a trustee at the Public
Theater, the CEO for Cerberus
Capital Management L.P., and Martin
Feinberg’s son.
Martin Feinberg
is Stephen A. Feinberg’s father, and
a Newtown (CT) resident.
Newtown
(CT) was the location of the 2012
massacre at Sandy Hook
Elementary School.
2012
massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School was a mass shootings 28 killed, including gunman.
No comments:
Post a Comment