memeorandum: Isla Vista shooting suspect targeted sorority, neighbors, strangers (Los Angeles Times)

3:16 AM ET, May 25, 2014

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Elliot Rodger, Gunman in California Mass Shooting, was influenced by the “Men's Rights Movement” — Trigger Warning: Violence against Women — Last Night in Santa Barbara California, a Gunman in a BMW opened fire on students near the UC Santa Barbara campus in Isla Vista.

Discussion: Guardian, NPR and Washington Monthly

Associated Press:

DIRECTOR SAYS SON RESPONSIBLE FOR SHOOTING RAMPAGE — You are here — Home » Santa Barbara » Director says son responsible for shooting rampage — GOLETA, Calif. (AP) — A Hollywood director believes his son was the lone gunman who went on a shooting rampage near the University …

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Los Angeles Times:

Isla Vista shooting suspect targeted sorority, neighbors, strangers — Santa Barbara Sheriff's officials offered the most detailed description yet of the violent rampage in Isla Vista Friday night, saying the suspect methodically killed at three separate locations near UC Santa Barbara.

Discussion: NY Daily News, Guardian, The Moderate Voice and The Truth About Guns

KEYT-TV:

Alleged Gunman's Apartment Now A Crime Scene — Three Bodies Pulled From The Capri Complex In Isla Vista … ISLA VISTA, Calif. - — UPDATE: Santa Barbara County's Sheriff's scheduled news conference postponed until 5:00 p.m. — The Santa Barbara County Coroner's team has established …

Discussion: Los Angeles Times, Gawker, The Raw Story and Arkansas Blog, Arkansas Times

Beth Farnsworth / KEYT-TV:

Sheriff Confirms Seven Dead in Isla Vista Shootings — “Mass Murder Situation” — ISLA VISTA, Calif. - — Santa Barbara County Sheriff Bill Brown revealed new details about Friday night's drive by shootings in Isla Vista during a Saturday morning news conference, including a new death toll …

Discussion: Hollywood Reporter, No More Mister Nice Blog, Gawker, Mashable, NPR and The Mahablog

Daily Mail:

‘I will slaughter every single blonde s**t I see’: Seven people killed as son of Hunger Games assistant director carries out drive-by shooting ‘because women rebuffed his advances and he was a virgin at 22’ — Rodger also died of gunshot wound to the head; authorities have not confirmed if it was self-inflicted

Discussion: The Gateway Pundit, The Daily Caller, TMZ.com, BizPac Review and Mediaite

New York Times:

California Gun Rampage Tied to Video Leaves Seven Dead — ISLA VISTA, Calif. — Seven people were killed, including the gunman, and seven others injured on Friday night after a bloody drive-by shooting on the crowded streets of a small college town near Santa Barbara, as a man the police described …

Discussion: Los Angeles Times, Re/code, Talking Points Memo, Associated Press, NBC News and Unfogged

USA Today:
Police identify Calif. shooting suspect as Elliot Rodger

Discussion: Yahoo! News

CNN:
7 dead in California shooting rampage called ‘premeditated mass murder’

Discussion: ABC News, PoliticusUSA, Scared Monkeys and The Moderate Voice

Mark Berman / Washington Post:
Shooter kills at least six people in rampage near UC Santa Barbara

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Cynthia Johnston / Reuters:
Gunman kills six in drive-by shooting in California college town

Discussion: Canada Blog …

Timothy Noah / msnbc.com:

VA wait times are bad. The private sector isn't much better. — The Department of Veterans Affairs, long touted by experts as providing health care superior to most private providers, is suddenly engulfed in scandal. — Records on wait times for appointments were allegedly falsified at the Phoenix VA …

Discussion: Washington Monthly

Sam Foote / New York Times:

Why I Blew the Whistle on the V.A. — PHOENIX — MY decision to become a whistle-blower after 24 years as a physician in a Veterans Affairs hospital was, at first, an easy one. I knew about patients who were dying while waiting for appointments on the V.A.'s secret schedules, and I couldn't stay silent.

Discussion: Hot Air and Liberaland

Jessica Wehrman / The Columbus Dispatch:
Privatizing VA still appeals to Boehner

Discussion: ThinkProgress

Ezra Klein / Vox:
Veterans aren't the only ones waiting for health care

Discussion: Washington Monthly

Dean Weingarten / The Truth About Guns:

New Jersey Law Would Ban Many Common Hunting Rifles — The gun ban that has gone to New Jersey Governor Christie for signature has been described as a “gun magazine restriction”, but it bans numerous common sport and hunting rifles. The ban has no exemption for rifles with fixed magazines …

Discussion: Power Line

George F. Will / Washington Post:

The 2016 presidential candidate we need — All modern presidents of both parties have been too much with us. Talking incessantly, they have put politics unhealthily at the center of America's consciousness. Promising promiscuously, they have exaggerated government's proper scope and actual competence …

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Elias Isquith / Salon:

Greenwald's haters, exposed: The real reason Michael Kinsley hates him — In his New York Times attack, the former “Crossfire” star reveals some of the elite media's deepest insecurities — People tell me — they insist, in fact — that there was a time, long ago, when Michael Kinsley wrote …

Discussion: PandoDaily, Los Angeles Times, EconLog, Washington Monthly, Roger Ailes and Lawyers, Guns & Money