I have been watching the news articles about this incident closely looking to see how the news media and liberal establishment was going to find the right-wing boogeyman to blame for the shootings.
One of the victim’s fathers sounded off about the NRA being partly to blame. I sympathize with his grief but pointing the finger at the NRA is misguided. Apparently the new boogeyman is white privilege.
In an article in the Daily Beast, James Poulos describes the shooter this way:
“He was a disgruntled, well-off white boy—so he fuels our arguments about privilege.”
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/05/26/alleged-santa-barbara-killer-elliot-rodger-and-the-twisted-cult-of-modern-masculinity.html#Well off? Yes. White boy? Depends on your definition. The shooter’s mother was Ong Li Chin who was born in Malaysia, a predominantly Muslim country with multiple ethnicities. I do not know her religion was or which specific ethnic group she belonged to. Suffice it to say that the shooter was of a mixed race, a Eurasian.
So here we have it, a half-white young man who grew up in comfortable surroundings, lacked for little as he was growing up, attended a prestigious prep school, had his college paid for and was not happy with things in general. But enough about our President, let’s get back to the shooter.
As I have stated in my earlier posts, some people are just born broken, this shooter seems to be one of them. You cannot fit him into a neat and defined pigeon hole that lets you use guilt by association to justify you blaming a whole category of others by your loosely fit definitions. Sometimes the answers really are that simple, he was just a broken and evil person with no one to blame but himself.