“Authorities have yet to officially identify a man who went on a drive-by shooting spree that left seven people dead, including the shooter himself, in Isla Vista near UC Santa Barbara Friday evening, but according the Santa Barbara Independent, Sheriff Bill Brown said his team believes a video posted to YouTube days earlier “appears to be connected.”
The seven-minute video lays out exactly why he feels so alienated and how he plans to kill to get some sort of revenge on the world. The latest, and last, video on his YouTube channel is one of many in which the young man complained about life being “unfair” and girls not finding him attractive.”
Read more here: http://www.mediaite.com/online/video-suspected-santa-barbara-killers-disturbing-youtube-manifesto/
Ana Kasparian (http://www.twitter.com/anakasparian) of The Young Turks breaks down the video manifesto from the UCSB shooter. Tell us what you think in the comment section below.
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I say that instead of validating the efforts of these individuals to gain significance with their actions, we instead give due homage to the victims, and then erase every mention of the perpetrators existence from human record. wipe the manifestos and blogs and journals, erase the birth and death certificates, and endeavor to have the name and even the very existence of each of these “manifesto killers” the school shooters, the rampagers, who all seem to have a journal of reasons why society has made them feel justified in planning plotting and executing mass killings for attention and significance. wiped from human record, instead of analyzed and published and, in short, validating the very intent of the crime.
These “manifesto killers” have a family. Although I can see where you are coming from, you can’t just erase them or their memory.