And I didn't claim that severe restrictions on guns prevent all killings ever.
I lived in that neighborhood for 4 years.
If he'd been running around IV with a knife, not as many people would have died.
Yes, he'd have still likely killed his roommates, but the people walking around wouldn't have been shot.
Twenty years ago this weekend, I left our apartment in Santa Barbara (on Del Playa) to get married in Monterey. Two weeks later, I graduated. Two weeks later, I moved across country to start grad school. It's really hard not to think of the people who were killed and out myself in their shoes or now the shoes of the parents who lost children.
Dh and I said before info was out on the shooter that we expected he attended SBCC.
It's only people with more money than sense who pay the exorbitant prices for rent in IV to have a kid attend a cc. It's phenomenally stupid.
From the shooter's writings, "My first act of preparation was the purchase my first handgun. I did this quickly and hastily, at a local gun shop called Goleta Gun and Supply. I had already done some research on handguns, and I decided to purchase the Glock 34 semiautomatic pistol, an efficient and highly accurate weapon. I signed all of the papers and was told that my pickup day was in mid-December.
After I picked up the handgun, I brought it back to my room and felt a new sense of power. I was now armed. Who’s the alpha male now, bitches."
From url=http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-isla-vista-document-20140524-story.html#page=2
"A new sense of power" from the gun.
And yet we will continue to do nothing about guns.