>>>>I went through a phase in college where I just didn't care anymore, and three times in one week I got hammered, jumped in my car, and went cruising. On the morning after the third time I got a call in the morning that my close friend was killed the night before when he was driving drunk, ran a stop sign, and smashed into an SUV, paralyzing the driver. That effectively ended my drunk driving days.
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>>>Smart man....
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>>>Drunk driving accidents are such horribly preventable tragedies
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>>>Over the weekend someone ran a stop sign and gave us a scare - we had Katy in the back seat. I know the child protection seats are strong but I really don't want to have to find out if they are indeed strong enough.
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>>>And without getting too far off topic, then you have pieces of garbage like Elliot Rodger who decide to play J.J.E. (judge, jury, executioner) with innocent lives.
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>>Simply because 'no girl would sleep with him' and it was all the girls' faults.
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>>Maybe, if we're lucky, this might continue the discussion on the objectification of women by some men and get MEN to start calling other men on these behaviors.
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>Maybe if we're much luckier this might continue the discussion about unrecognized/untreated mental illness, with or without access to weapons. Two thirds of the fatalities in this incident were male.

Unfortunately, (based on what I've been reading) he'd been under treatment/visitations by various mental health people AND the police. None of whom felt he was a 'threat to himself or the public'. His parents (bless their hearts) had been in contact with the police because of his posting of his manifesto/plans for the shootings and were trying to find him when he started his spree. And, again based on what I've read, the only reason he didn't kill more women was because no one answered the door at the sorority house he started at (after his roommates, that is).

No, I'm afraid this one boils down to the fact he felt he was 'entitled' to hot, sexy women whenever he wanted them and it was their fault they weren't lining up at his door. Apparently he had been very active on the Pick Up Artists (PUA) boards and the like. Not to mention statements made in his 'manifesto'