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Hmm.
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Hi, Elliott Roger here, Well, this is my last video.
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It all has to come to this. Tomorrow is the
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day of retribution, the day in which I will have
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my revenge against humanity, against all of you, and run
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about you will finally see that I am, in truth,
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the superior one, the true alpha male.
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M hm.
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Yes, after I've annihilated every single girl in the sorority house,
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I'll take to the streets of a La Vista and
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slam every single person I see there.
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Multiple bullet shots and bullet holes and windows of the
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Ivy Deli, which is on par doll. We'll update this
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information as soon as it is available, but right now
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law enforcement is too busy at the scene to let
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us know what happened.
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Friday, May twenty third, twenty fourteen, a night of horror
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in the small West coast community of Ayla Vistay.
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Another ambulas is sixty five five three part all Ivy Deli,
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another gun property.
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Using a knife, machetes and three semi automatic handguns, Elliott
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Roger goes on a killing spree.
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All of a sudden, we hear like five really loud
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gun shots.
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What we do know is one fatality so far, that
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is on adele Plia Street. We're not sure if that
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person suffered from gunshot wounds or from something else he shot.
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And I felt like I just felt the wind like
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passing right by my face.
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And I was like, what the f Because as soon
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as we got up there, we got into silver Grains
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and a cop came by and like got everyone inside
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the building saying there.
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Was a shooter.
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So I turned around and I started like walking really
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fast the other way, and I like, I heard a gunshot.
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So I was like, I had no idea that I
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was a pistol at all.
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In the end, six people are murdered, many are injured,
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and Roger finally turns one of the guns on himself.
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Roger had planned what he called his day of retribution
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with great care over many months.
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You girls have never been attracted to me. I don't
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know why you girls aren't attracted to me, but I
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will punish you all for it.
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This video, filmed by Roger, was uploaded on the day
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of his murderous rampage. It is the extraordinary final film
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in a chilling series of videos he posted online.
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It's an injustice, a crime, because I don't know what
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you don't see in me. I'm the perfect guy, and
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yet you throw yourselves at all these obnoxious men instead
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of me, the supreme Gentleman.
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As well as the videos, he wrote a long, detailed
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and deeply disturbing document called My Twisted World, The Story
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of Elliott Roger. It was emailed to a handful of people,
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including his mother and father, at nine eighteen pm on
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the day of the killings.
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It begins with these lines, humanity. All of my suffering
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on this world has meaned the hands of humanity, particularly women.
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It has made me realize just how brutal and twisted
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humanity is as a species.
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How does a deeply troubled young man with a growing
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hatred of the world turn from awkward teenager to ruthless killer.
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These videos and the manifesto give us the unique opportunity
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to see inside his mind and examine what went wrong.
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It is the story of a mass murderer of the
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digital age, told by the killer himself.
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This is the story of how I, Elliot Roger, came
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to be. This is the story of my entire life.
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It is a dark story of sadness, anger and hatred.
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In this magnificent story, I will disclose every single detail
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about my life. This tragedy did not have to happen.
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Dat Roger had a privileged life. He filmed this video
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himself sitting in upper class on a flight into Los Angeles.
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He was born in London in nineteen ninety one, the
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family moving to la
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when he was six years old.
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Both parents worked in the film industry. His father was
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assistant director on The Hunger Games. They divorced when he
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was seven. For him, this was a turning point.
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I was absolutely shocked, outraged, and above all overwhelmed. This
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was a huge life changing event.
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Lots of kids have parents who separate, who were divorced,
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to have acrimonious marriages, who formed new partnerships. All of
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that is in the normal range. When people react to
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that as though this is somehow their unique problem, we
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have to look at why do they think they're so special?
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In that respect, he.
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Saw himself as a very rejected person, as though he
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were actually seeking out his peers, seeking out women, and
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he was being pushed away. He was being rejected, But
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in reality, when you talk to people who knew him,
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he really seemed to be this other type of person
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where he was not in fact actively seeking out others,
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he was actually choosing to isolate himself.
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But Elliot Rodgers's failure to engage with the world soon
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went beyond the shyness of a child.
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He didn't make eye contact with anyone. When we think
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about what we each give each other as social cues
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to let us know whether or not we want someone
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to reach out to us or approach us, there's usually
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social cues body language, eye contact that indicates to another
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person that I see you, I would like for you
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to say hello, or I want to say hello to you.
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And he really didn't do that.
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His former high school principle was a silent, withdrawn child.
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What I saw was a really socially awkward young man,
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very shy, very timid. Didn't really quite know what to
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say or how to say. Wouldn't have even been able
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to tell you what his voice sounded like at that time.
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There was absolutely not one word that he ever expressed.
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His introduction to sex was through pornography at a cyber cafe.
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I saw an older teenager watching pornography. I saw in
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detail a video of a man having sex with a
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hot girl. Finding out about sex is one of the
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things that truly destroyed my entire life. Sex. The word
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fills me with hate.
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Hey, Elliott Roger, here right now. I'm just taking a
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walk through the park. It's a really nice secluded are Yeah.
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I'm just contemplating about my life and how unfair it's
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been lately. Well, it's been unfair for the last eight years,
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ever since I hit puberty.
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In making his videos, Roger returned several times to the
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places that were special to him as a child.
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And here I am at Serrania Park, the most significant
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place of my childhood. My parents used to take me
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here when I was six years old. I have some
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very happy memories here. That's where my father taught me
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how to swing. It still looks exactly the same. He's
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all right, is he friendly?
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But he's a little.
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That's okay.
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For much of his life, Elliott Roger lived in a
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cyber world, his online conversations reflecting a growing hatred and anger.
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In his final days and months, he was immersed in
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online forums and obsessed with computer games.
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Well, for everyone, playing games is a refuge from the
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real world and the responsibilities that it carries. Most people
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have no trouble separating fantasy from reality.
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On the other hand.
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If you immerse someone in a chat room or forum
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in which everyone's sharing the same view and taking turns
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making extremist statements, that will only make matters worse. If
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you want to get worse at what you're angry about,
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go join other angry people.
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I'm just sitting in my car right now, enjoying the
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view of the beat, and my view has been ruined
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by this site. Right here in front of me, sitting
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right there on that bench is a
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Young people together triggered intense anger in Roger. The couple
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he filmed here may well have had a close call.
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They're kissing right now. It's torture for me to watch,
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but I have.
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To do this.
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I've seen the video that he made of that where
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he's focusing on this couple on a bench, and to
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be absolutely honest, when I saw that, I half expected
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him to leave the camera on the dashboard and to
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see him get out of the car and head out.
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I mean, that couple were incredibly lucky.
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I can only imagine the heavenly things they'll be doing
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together when they go back home tonight. It's not fair.
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Life is not fair.
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Towards the end of twenty twelve, Roger decides on revenge,
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especially against young couples. He plans it with meticulous care.
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Just before Christmas, he buys his first gun.
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I decided to purchase the Glack thirty four semi automatic pistol,
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an efficient and highly accurate weapon. I brought it back
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to my room and felt a new sense of power.
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Roger's willingness to conduct the Day of Retribution shows that
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he's got an intractable personality. He stockpiles ammunition, he buys guns.
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He never shows any flexibility. All he thinks about is
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how am I going to commit this spree.
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Friday, May twenty third, twenty fourteen, the day of Retribution arrives.
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The killing will soon begin. His last video is about
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to be released to the world.
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You deserve to be annihilated, and I'll give that to you.
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You never showed me any mercy, and so I will
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show you none. I hate all of you. Humanity is
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a disgusting, wretched, depraved species. Hey Elliott Roger here, Oh
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check it out. There's me, ah my fabulousness. Oh yeah.
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When you get to a certain level of narcissistic behavior,
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it could also enter into what we call a personality disorder.
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This is where an individual's way of thinking and feeling
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and interacting with the world is dominated by their narcissism.
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I desire girls. I'm sexually attracted to girls.
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He can't cope with being rejected.
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The girls are not sexually attracted to me.
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He blames the other people around him because he can't
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possibly be at fault.
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Here's a major problem with that major problem. That's a
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problem that I intend to rectify.
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So when you take the narcissism, you take the blaming
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of the people, style of coping, and someone who feels
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they fall in short of where they should be in life.
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Those tend to be three of the strongest factors we
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find in Spreae killings.
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What comes through loud and clear here is his detachment.
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His tone during this is a cold, instructional, calculated tone.
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In all my magnificence and power, I will not let
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this fly. It's an injustice that needs to be dealt with.
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There's no emotion in his voice. It's cruel He's detached
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from it in his own emotions, and yet convey cruelty
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as he describes his plot. And he does that in
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the most distant, cold way.
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Ever since I was seventeen, I often fantasized about becoming
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powerful and inflicting suffering upon everyone who has wronged me
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in the past.
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Ila Vista on the Californian Coast is a lively student community.
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That's why Elliott Roger went there, especially for the girls.
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His main subject was English, though by spring twenty fourteen
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he abandoned all learning. By then, his obsession was revenge
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and retribution.
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I will arm myself with deadly weapons and wager war
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against all women and the men they are attracted to,
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and I will slaughter them like the animals they are.
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Unwittingly, his two flatmates became part of his deadly plan.
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They'd moved into his apartment in autumn twenty thirteen. James
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Hong studied computer engineering, so did his close friend David Wang.
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Both were twenty. They had no idea Elliott Roger was
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planning their deaths.
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The first people I would have to kill are my
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two housemates to secure the entire apartment for myself as
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my personal torture and killing chamber.
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May twenty third, twenty fourteen, arrives. Elliot Roger unleashes the
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horror he has been preparing his flatmates, James Hong and
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David Wang, are stabbed repeatedly. For David's mother, the grief
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is overwhelming.
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When I heard that news, I was I cannot functioning.
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I just shaking cold down to on the on the floor.
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I just I cannot. I just it's nightmare.
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His mother and father are left only with memories.
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I love my son at the same time, we're like friends.
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We talk about everything like he's my protector. It was
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also my joy because he likes holding my hand, like
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has his arms around my shoulder, and like laughing with me.
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Whenever I will think what happened to David, I have
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hard time to bread. I just don't want to know.
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I just want to remember my Daddy's so joyful, peaceful.
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But it's not over yet. There is a third person
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in the apartment, a friend of Roger's flatmate's.
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There was never a time, in working with him or
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knowing him, that I ever felt like his inability to
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interact socially, or inability to interact in the world outside of, say,
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his family, would ever have led me to believe that
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this kind of rage was building inside of him.
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Never I see so many hot, beautiful blonde girls walking
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with absolute stupid, obnoxious looking douchebags.
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You know, sometimes when you look with twenty twenty, you go, ah,
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now that makes sense, Now I get it. That is
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not there with Elliott, not one iota.
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Coming from a comfortable background meant and status were important.
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He had a lot of life options. He was at college,
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he had a moneyed background, and he had a certain
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element of privilege.
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In his narrow world, Roger believes he's the perfect catch
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and that should guarantee him success with girls.
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He considers himself incredibly superior. He talks all the way
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through his manifesto that he is the one true gentleman.
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He is the alpha male, He's wonderful and amazing, and
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he seems to expect that women should just throw themselves
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at him. So he's got this really insular, introverted view
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that he is brilliant and perfect and all of the
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fault seems to lie with the individuals outside of him.
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In his videos, Elliot Roger often harks back to his childhood,
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the only time he claims to experience any happiness.
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I can hear some kids playing down there now, I
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hear those sounds. Reminds me of the days of my
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childhood were the best times of my life. I wish
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I could be a kid again.
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Very early in his manifesto, Elliott Roger identifies the feelings
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that will trigger the tragedy.
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Jealousy and envy. Those are two feelings that would dominate
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my entire life and bring me immense pain.
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Especially when he became an adolescent.
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When you hit puberty, your life either becomes heaven on
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Earth or living hell. It all depends on how many
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girls like you. No girls liked me, and I hate
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them all for it.
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His lack of success with girls was a constant theme
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of his teenage years. When he moved to college at
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E La Vista, he hoped that would change.
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I'm twenty two years old, still a virgin. I've never
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even kissed a girl.
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Constant disappointment turned to something much more sinister.
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I will destroy all women because I can never have them.
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I will make them suffer for rejecting me.
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Spring twenty thirteen, he buys another handgun. This time it's
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a sig sour P two two six, more expensive and
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more powerful than the glock.
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I was now armed. Who's the alpha male now,
bitches?
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He becomes a regular on internet forums for involuntary celibates
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known as incels. Here he appears to amplify and reinforce
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his extreme views.
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These individuals get angry, they go to this environment. They
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you know, they air their they see how angry they are,
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and it's like an echo chamber gets louder and louder,
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they get more extreme. So what may have started off
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at the beginning is a bit of a grumble and
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a complaint. After a period of time, it becomes a
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full on hatred that these individuals are engaging in on
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a daily basis.
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Many of them share my hatred of women, though unlike me,
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they would be too cowardly to act on it.
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On July twenty, twenty thirteen, just four days before his birthday,
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Elliot Roger sets out determined to have sex. He wants
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to lose his virginity before he turns twenty two.
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I was giving the female gender one last chance to
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provide me with the pleasures I deserved from them.
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If he hadn't focused on the issue of not being
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able to find a sexual partner or sexual rejection, he
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would have found another way to characterize this. There would
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have been something else that was unfulfilling.
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Instead, he gets so drunk he insults a group of
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girls at a party and starts a fight, but gets
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badly hurt. He manages to make it home, where one
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of his neighbors spends three hours with him.
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I would have to talk to him for five minutes
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and he would reply with one sentence, and then I
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talked to him for another five minutes and he'd give
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out another sentence.
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I actually gave them all one last chance to accept me,
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to give me a reason not to hate them, and
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they devastatingly blew it back in my face.
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He was so unbelievably emotional. I distinctly remember him saying.
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I'm going to kill all of those mothers, and I'm
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gonna kill myself.
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I gave the world too many chances. It was time
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for retribution.
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I don't understand you girls. It's like your sexual attraction
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is flawed, it's perverted.
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In April twenty fourteen, he uploads some of his video logues.
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You should be attracted to guys like me, beautiful magnificent guys.
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On Wednesday, April thirtieth, twenty fourteen, the police are called
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to his apartment. The police report says they were alerted
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by a mental health worker. Who had been contacted by
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someone who said they were a friend of Elliott Roger.
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This is just three weeks before he takes his revenge.
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There is some evidence I think that shows the depth
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of his psychopathology here. When the police had been to
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his property. In the reports, they said that he was
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a pleasant young man. He was a delightful individual, slightly
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shy and socially awkward.
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If they had demanded to search my room, that would
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have ended everything. For a few horrible seconds, I thought
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it was all over.
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Now we know that psychopaths are very good. They're very
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adept at portraying different personalities to different people.
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The police leave without finding the weapons or the manifesto
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that reveals how he plans to use them.
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On the day before the day of retribution, I will
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start the first phase of my vengeance silently killing as
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many people as I can around a La Vista by
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luring them into my apartment through some form of trickery.
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Roger takes down his video logs. They don't go up
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again until the early hours of May twenty third, twenty fourteen.
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After killing his two flatmates, Elliot Roger continues with his
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planned day of retribution. A knife machetes and a hammer
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are found at the scene. His flatmate's friend, George Chen
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is also in the apartment nighteen studying computer science, and
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he spends much of his spare time on charity work.
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His father
remembers their last phone call, just nine days
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before his son is murdered.
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So well, lads to think that people will hang up.
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I remember I said, Okay, George, Daddy always love you.
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So he also I love Marma, I love Daddy. So
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this time I say, Georgia, I love you very much.
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Having George as our son is is the biggest gift
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that God give us.
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It's George is.
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Yeah.
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We are very thankful to him to be our kid,
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and I think that's the best thing when we think
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about him.
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At nine seventeen pm on May twenty third, twenty fourteen,
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Elliott Roger uploads his final video. He also emails the
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manifesto to a handful of people, including his parents and therapist.
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When they read it, they alert the police, but already
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it's too late.
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You will finally see that I am, in truth, the
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superior one, the true alpha male.
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Minutes later, he leaves the house. The killing has only
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just begun.
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Hey, Elliott Roger. Here, I'm up in the hills in
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Montecito right now. It's truly a beautiful day. But as
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I've always said, a beautiful environment is the darkest hell
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if you have to experience it all alone. And sadly,
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I've been alone for a very long time.
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Soon after uploading this video, Elliott Roger initiates his day
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of retribution. Three men, including his two flapmates, have been
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stabbed and are lying dead in the apartment, but the
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killing is not over yet. There is more to come.
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He is about to go on the rampage.
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I hate all of you. I can't wait to give
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you exactly what you deserve, utter annihilation, not fire.
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I'm live an Eilavista on Ellen Barcadero. Multiple people injured,
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multiple bullet holes. We'll update this information as soon as
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it is available.
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The shots were still coming through. He was still shooting
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at us, shooting inside the store.
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Roger's failure with women is at the heart of his
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rage and frustration. They are his next target.
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The second phase will represent my war on women. I
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will punish all females for the crime of depriving me
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of sex. I will attack the very girls who represent
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everything I hate in the female gender.
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He has carefully researched his next victims, an exclusive club
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for women students, a sorority house named using the Greek
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letters Alpha Fi.
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I am going to enter the hardest sorority house of UCSB,
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and I will slaughter every single spoiled, stuck up, blonde
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sluck I see inside there.
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The sorority with the most beautiful girls is Alpha Fi Sorority.
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I know exactly where their house is. I have sat
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outside it in my car to stalk them many times.
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One of the common features of mass murder that's clearly
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true of Elliott Rogers is that they collect injustices. Elliot
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goes on at length about his sexual frustration, his inability
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to have a sexual relationship. He makes it the centerpiece
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of his quest, so the theme becomes payback and revenge
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for this grudge about perceived injustices.
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One of the themes that seems to emerge is this
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sort of paranoid or persecutory thinking, thinking that the world.
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Is out to get him. You know, he would make
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statements like how dare you not accepting? Or how dare
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you not recognize my magnificence. He saw the world through
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this hostile lens, where even benign behavior from other people
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was seen as having hostile and.
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Head At about nine twenty five PM, with three semi
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automatic weapons and hundreds of rounds of ammunition, Elliott Roger
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drives the short distance to the sorority building. Police believe
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he hammers on the door of the Alpha Pi sorority house,
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but no one answers. He gets back into the car
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and spots a new target. Three women walking across the street.
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Veronica Weiss, a nineteen year old undergraduate, and Katie Cooper,
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a twenty two year old art history student, are killed instantly.
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Bianca de Coke is hit five times but survives.
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Jobs for an area del Nortay.
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He can still achieve the mission of killing the beautiful
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people who reject him, even if he can't get through
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the door to kill the group he originally said he would.
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He doesn't care about his promise to history. He cares
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about expressing his rage and ending his pain. Revenge is
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the most common theme among the mass killers. I think
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Elliot Rogers chose Friday night because that's when lots of
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young people would be out having a good time. Unlike him.
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A few blocks away, Ivy deli is busy with weekend customers.
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At nine thirty pm, Rogers arrives outside and takes aim
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from the car. Customers, still with goods in their hands,
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dive for cover as bullets fly over their heads. Dylan
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Fontillas is one of them.
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Within about a minute, that's when I had walked in.
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First two shots rang through instantly. That actually broke the glass,
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and that's when we are so scrambling for our life.
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Pretty much.
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One girl and Dylan are inches from death as a
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bullet whistles past them, shattering the glass door of the refrigerator.
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I didn't so much like hear the gun at first,
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but I heard the glass breaking, just the shatter of
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the glass.
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Just off to the right of the CCTV stands Chris Martinez,
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a twenty year old who planned to be a lawyer.
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He is cut down in a hail of bullets.
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I had just turned I saw him fall, and I
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kind of like tucked my hand out of my head
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and turned down and duck behind the counter.
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As Chris slumps to the floor, the young woman who
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was almost hit reaches out to help him.
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We sat there and watched the skin had bleed to death.
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He was no less than two feet away from me.
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Still in the car. Roger's shooting spree is far from over.
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He casually drove away, which was very surprising.
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You didn't hear any You didn't hear any any tire
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screeching or anything like that.
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It was actually a very calm.
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I heard that he was a fairly well known customer there,
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so he knows that that's a place to go if
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he was looking for a lot of people.
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People might wonder about the emotions of the killer. There's
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not a lot of emotion other than anger. There's not
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much fulfillment for them. The expression of the anger doesn't
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really make them feel relief or feel better about it.
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Black And one way that I care now.
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What they recognize is there's a sense of finality that
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this pain of the anger, the pain of isolation, is
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going to end, because soon they will.
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Be dead an god god fire.
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In a few short, brutal minutes, Roger has shot and
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killed three young people, but there is more carnage to come.
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He is about to use his car as a weapon.
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If I can't have you, girls, I will destroy you.
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You denied me a happy life, and in turn, I
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will deny all of you life, m It's only fair.
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Elliott Roger has now murdered six students. Three young men
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stabbed to death in his own apartment, two young women
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shot dead outside the Alpha Fi sorority house, another critically injured.
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One young man is shot and killed in the Delhi.
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Roger drives the streets with three guns, firing at random.
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The police scramble to stop him.
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Turning area Del Norte and Pard we're getting further.
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I'll take to the streets of Ayla Vista and slay
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every single person I see there.
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There's panic as Roger opens fire on students outside the
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seven eleven store.
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I hate all of you. Humanity is a disgusting, wretched,
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depraved species.
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The moment is filmed on a smartphone from an
apartment
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as people died for cover in a pizza restaurant.
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I will then make my way to Dell Plia, splattering
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as many of my enemies as I can.
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And.
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Student Sierra Schwartz has a terrifying encounter.
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He like lifted up like a little black pistol and
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like I just thought it was like an airsoft gun
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or something. So I was like, I was like heay,
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Like what up? And I turned around and I started
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walking the other way, and then like he shot, I
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just felt the wind like pass right by my face,
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and I.
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Was like what the.
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I will continue down tow PLI destroying everything and every one.
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Part of the center with a headery the fire and delcer.
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As police find the injured and dead. They called desperately
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for medics, but the ambulances are being held back until
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the shooting is over.
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Point three black and one way going into North medic here.
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Now another got job, not fire, not fire.
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The police fire back, hitting Roger in the hip through
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the car door, but he accelerates away.
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When I see the first police car come to their rescue,
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I will drive away as fast as I can, shooting
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and ramming anyone in my path until I find a
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suitable place to finally end my life.
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I jumped on the sidewalk and I see a man
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na bmw is body inside the windshield, glass broken everywhere,
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and now he's under feet that way, at least his
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body carried on with the car.
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It was he went.
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He went down a few blocks.
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Roger doesn't get far. Barely twelve minutes after he begins shooting.
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He crashes into parked cars.
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And then when I'm out there.
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To end my life, I will shoot myself in the
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head with two of my handguns simultaneously. I will not
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suffer being captured and sent to prison.
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I partner the.
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Well.
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The killing is over. Six young lives brutally ended, thirteen
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others wounded. The following morning, the police discover the grim
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scene at Elliott Rodgers apartment.
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The three male victims were apparently stabbed repeatedly with sharp objects,
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and it was a It was a pretty horrific crime scene.
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Why do things have to be this way? I'm sure
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that is the question everyone will be asking after the
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day of retribution is over.
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Within hours, his final video and the manifesto are being
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watched and read around the world as people tried to
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comprehend what he has done.
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And he lived like a twenty second walk from my house.
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And I've never seen the kid.
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In my life.
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He went to the same school, we did, all the
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same layces as. But I you know, snoother face in
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the crowd.
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Why didn't he tell us? Why didn't he reach out
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and trust one person to say, wow, I'd really like
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to meet a girl. But he never articulated that. He
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never indicated in any way that he was troubled by
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it or he was angry about it.
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Along with his horrifying YouTube posts, Rogers written in his.
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One and forty one page manifesto.
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Across social networks and mainstream media, the soul searching begins
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from the passionate to the tasteless, he.
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Said, that's where the murders would begin.
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First with his others in with trickery, knocking them out
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with the ham Everyone has an opinion. I literally don't
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know how you can't see it as misogynistic, how you
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could see it's anything other than misogyny.
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So my view on Elliot Roger is that he's a hypocritical, idiot,
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narcissistic psychopath.
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A few postings on the chat rooms Elliott Roger visited
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hail him as a hero, but they are quickly taken down.
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Other sites disappear but come back.
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Perhaps Elliott's attempts to
develop these YouTube videos and communicate
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with others was really his way of making those types
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of interactions controllable, perhaps even predict all on his terms.
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There's no question in my mind that in a society
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that shared data, that had a good protocol for law
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enforcement to make use of that data and that had
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adequate mental health resources, such crimes could be prevented.
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He really sees this as a historical document of some significance.
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I think that plays into the disordered thinking that he
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had and the narcissistic elements about his own importance in
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the world.
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Elliott's parents, Chen and Peter Roger issue a public statement.
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We are crying in pain for the victims and their families.
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It breaks our hearts on a level that we didn't
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think possible. The feeling of knowing that it was our
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00:43:51.920 --> 00:43:55.159
son's actions that caused the tragedy can only be described
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as hell on earth.
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Far from destroying humanity, as Elliot, Roger intended, his savage
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00:44:06.039 --> 00:44:08.920
act serves to bring the people of Ila Vista together.
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00:44:10.760 --> 00:44:13.920
During times like this, it's very easy to blame people
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and organizations, and it's very easy to lay blame on
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those who we feel are responsible in one way or another.
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But if we can bring ourselves to propagate hope and
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kindness and peace and understanding, then maybe we can move
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forward from this event and shape a more positive community
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for us.
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The anguished voices of the other victims, the families begin
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to be heard.
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Why did Chris die? Chris died because of craven, irresponsible
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politicians and the NRA. They talk about gun rights, What
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00:45:10.039 --> 00:45:15.639
about Chris's right to live? When will this insanity stop?
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When will enough people say stop this madness?
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We don't have to live like this.
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Too many have died.
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We should say to ourselves, not one more, thank you.
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That's it.
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We're heartbroken, we are end of the world. We won't David,
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James and Judge they're the last one. We don't want
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this happen again.
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We have been working so hard that we try to
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build a better future for our children, and and when
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I lost George, all these things seems meaningless. So I
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from the bottom of the height, I've tried to see
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what we can do to prevent this from happening.
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And wake up America, because this can come to your
628
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town and it can affect you, and what I lost
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is irreplaceable. It would they would do anything anything to
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have my son back, but you know that's not gonna happen.
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So I've got to make something good come out of this,
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and I will do everything within my power to try
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to make it stop.
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Now.
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If you have been affected by any of the issues
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