Here we go again. Another mass shooting. Society watches again as another mass shooting occurs as if an insane person, who many people warned was insane, being able to obtain deadly weapons and use them on bystanders was something we could no more stop from happening than a hurricane or tsunami.

If this happening in an elementary school wasn't enough for us to act, I doubt it happening at a sorority will be - but maybe not. There are "no guns" signs throughout my city of Seattle and people are pushing legislation, change doesn't happen fast - especially in a country with such a history of gun rights.

If not weapons control, another element looms: this kid couldn't be committed. His father was a director of a hugely successful film. (Again - I refuse to name this guy by name or make him famous.)There is not a lack of precedent of well to do parents with troubled children putting their children in a comfortable place for the mentally disturbed. Mental institutions exist in much of the world and did exist here until we got rid of them during the Reagan era. Now the insane are left to the street, social services or prisons to deal with.

With people like this freak, that seems like the most logical step. I am not a fan of guns and don't want to ever be around them. Nevertheless there's many different items one could use to kill - having no means to put away someone who is clearly a threat to others is as dangerous to us as allowing them to obtain weapons.

As for the videos this freak made, I don't really want to tarnish this article with that sick shit (read it for yourself) but I've read some of it and thought that what this guy talks about in the video is common enough to address.

Unfortunately the whole sexual entitlement and alienation mentality that this asshole at UCSB exhibited is pervasive. I had a little bit of it years ago and there's all sorts of causes for it. Many men do grow up alienated from women and postmodern feminism has acted to put up new sorts of walls between the genders as opposed to taking them all down. It was easy in those years to think that, as a man, you've really got nothing to offer anymore.

I am not saying that it was intentional of feminism - no, not at all. However, gender roles centered around family existed for hundreds of years. Postmodern feminism came to a head with mantras such as "a woman needs a man like a fish needs a bicycle." It is unclear as hell what men are expected to do and if we are expected to do anything.

For most men, that turns in to frustration. For a mentally ill freak, it may turn in to this. Then again, this psychopath may have done something like this sixty years ago and my idealizing of past gender roles has nothing at all to do with it. That entitlement does show up in men that don't do something like this and so I'm really explaining where it may come from for then - a person like Rodger seems both to mystify sex and objectify women as a vessel for sex. Many men maintain a long period of loneliness as they do this and fail to realize that sex is the fruition of a productive relationship among equals. There's already worthy reading on the subject.

Also, when you are a virgin, it's easy as hell to idealize and mystify sex as something beyond what it is - exacerbating your own anxiety and perpetuating the social alienation felt. Having a spouse is a whole other enchilada - something Psycho Boy couldn't possibly know how to deal with. It means thinking about the needs of others almost constantly to the point that you begin to confuse your own needs with that of the person you love. There is little separation between you and those you love. A sociopath can't and won't do that.

There also is the psychiatric drug element - which seems very likely to have played a role but is a topic I'm a bit tired of writing about. There's alot of speculation on this individual's psychiatric treatment that is worth looking into.

As I said in my post "Why I Still Believe In People," even with these sick sick tragedies occurring seemingly every half a year or so, we are still a country of 300 million and a world of nearly 8 billion. The overwhelming majority do not do things like this and have productive relationships with others based on mutual understanding and not just intimidation. We should take steps to protect ourselves and the most vulnerable of us but we should never guilt ourselves in to thinking everyone is bad.