{"id":77036,"date":"2014-06-01T17:06:22","date_gmt":"2014-06-01T21:06:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/?p=77036"},"modified":"2014-06-01T17:09:11","modified_gmt":"2014-06-01T21:09:11","slug":"on-elliot-rodger-nothings-that-simple-not-even-things-that-are-simply-awful","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/sexuality\/on-elliot-rodger-nothings-that-simple-not-even-things-that-are-simply-awful\/","title":{"rendered":"On Elliot Rodger: ‘Nothing’s that simple, not even things that are simply awful.’"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Lucy Inglis<\/strong><\/p>\n

Apologies for the second non-history post in a row, but sometimes, you\u2019ve just got to write down what you think.<\/p>\n

As a historian, I seek truth and sense in documents. Some make it harder than others to find.<\/p>\n

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On Saturday Elliot Rodger, a twenty-two year old boy living in California killed four men and two women in the student community of Isla Vista. Three of the men were his room-mates, whom he stabbed to death, Cheng Yuan \u2018James\u2019 Hong, 20; George Chen, 19; and Weihan Wang, 20. He then drove to a sorority house, intending to kill women. There he shot and killed Katie Cooper, 22, and Veronika Weiss, 19 and injured another as yet un-named female. The other male was Christopher Michaels-Martinez, aged 20, killed in a shooting at a deli. <\/p>\n

In the police chase that followed, Rodger hit two cyclists, one of whom put in the car\u2019s windscreen in the impact, and a second, the accident which effectively ended the car chase. Rodger was shot in the hip, it has been reported, by police, but died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head. In the car were three semi-automatic weapons, and in excess of four hundred rounds of ammunition, all purchased legally by Rodger.<\/p>\n

Elliot Rodger had a long history of mental health problems. His mother\u00a0is reported as having said<\/a>, \u2018He was always a disturbed child. I don\u2019t know how he was allowed to get a gun\u2019.<\/p>\n

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By Lucy Inglis Apologies for the second non-history post in a row, but sometimes, you\u2019ve just got to write down what you think. As a historian, I seek truth and sense in documents. Some make it harder than others to find. On Saturday Elliot Rodger, a twenty-two year old boy living in California killed four … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"generate_page_header":""},"categories":[629,16],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77036"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77036"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77036\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77036"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}