<p>I my comment about him not being white was because in photos, he doesnt appear to be Caucasian.
I didnt know anything about his last name, but he looks Native American or as you say, Hispanic.
His facebook page showed a normal young man, who likes fishing and sports. He was attending a different college than SPU and had a job.
I didnt see anything about a Columbine obsession.</p>
<p>The perpatrators aren’t all male. Amy Bishop, 2010, University of Alabama in Huntsville. </p>
<p>Do me a favor, Soccerguy and others, and get to your point because I don’t see it. Three kids studying for finals were shot, one of them dead. If it makes you feel better, you’ll be happy to know that one of the students taken out on a stretcher at the scene is Black. Don’t know if he was hit or not. Another student whom was near the shooter and interviewed appears to be African-American [woman]. I think most folks are just relieved that there wasn’t more carnage. I’m not concerned about the perpetrator’s ethnicity. But that’s just me.</p>
<p>To note again what saintfan mentioned: the shooter was stopped when he had to reload by pepper spray. This is the biggest argument you can make for limiting the capacity of magazines to force shooters to reload. </p>
<p>(And though I am not anti-gun and accept their existence in the US as individual property, that we need to talk about magazine size either as a “right” or as a way to reduce the number of injuries and fatalities from yet more mass shootings … is a sign of true social sickness.)</p>
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<p><a href=“Who Is Aaron Ybarra? Suspected Seattle Pacific University Shooter Obsessed With Columbine | IBTimes”>http://www.ibtimes.com/who-aaron-ybarra-suspected-seattle-pacific-university-shooter-obsessed-columbine-1595326</a></p>
<p>The statement is made in the article, but from what I read, was not substantiated with anything we are privy to.</p>
<p>OK - I should have said " . . . has been reported to have been obsessed with Columbine."</p>
<p>Ho hum, another suicidal young man who wants to go out in a blaze of glory and shoots up a school. Apparently this is the new normal, and we’re supposed to get used to hearing about one of these incidents every few weeks. Good thing we have a Second Amendment, so all these suicidal or crazy young men can get guns.</p>
<p>LW that’s how I felt about Sandy Hook. A town in my state, not next door, but in CT everythig is somewhat nearby. And Newtown is very similar to my town ini size, demographics, etc. Very close to home indeed, And it irritates me to no end that the shooter’s name is the one that is most remembered.</p>
<p>Ive just read local news reports and his facebook page, nothing about Columbine.
I mentioned that he didnt look white, because of other posters assertions that these types of shootings were by young white males.</p>
<p>This statement from a friend of the shooter, lines up with what I saw on his facebook page.
<a href=“Friend: Accused gunman was 'turning life around'”>http://www.seattlepi.com/local/komo/article/Friend-Accused-gunman-was-turning-life-around-5533767.php</a></p>
<p><a href=“Suspect in Seattle Pacific University Rampage Researched Mass Shootings”>http://www.nbcnews.com/news/crime-courts/suspect-seattle-pacific-university-rampage-researched-mass-shootings-n124666</a></p>
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<p>To those who are saying only the killer’s name is only remembered, let’s think about who is in charge of remembering and forgetting. Each person who hears these tragic stories has the ability to find out the victims’ names. Take it upon yourself to change what you remember. </p>
<p>For example, with Sandy Hook. Too many little kids lost their lives. I told myself that I will remember at least one of their names and never forget it. Noah Pozner. </p>
<p>Each person can do the same. </p>
<p>That’s a nice thing, niquii. Very nice.</p>
<p>From my local news website:</p>
<p>Ybarra had longstanding mental-health issues and has been treated and medicated in the past, his lawyer said. Brandes added she is seeking his treatment records and did not know his specific diagnosis.</p>
<p>Ybarra was hospitalized for mental health evaluations twice in recent years, said Pete Caw, assistant police chief in Ybarra’s hometown of Mountlake Terrace.</p>
<p>Officers encountered Ybarra in 2010 and 2012. Both times, he was severely intoxicated and taken to Swedish Hospital in Edmonds for evaluation, Caw said. In the October 2012 incident, police found Ybarra lying in a roadway.</p>
<p>He was arrested on suspicion of DUI in nearby Edmonds in 2012, said Edmonds police Sgt. Mark Marsh.</p>
<p>“We are so very shocked and sad over yesterday’s shootings at SPU,” Ybarra’s family said in a statement. “We are crushed at the amount of pain caused to so many people. To the victims and their families, our prayers are with you.”</p>
<p>LA Times article says he had been involuntarily committed once or twice, claiming rage and a desire to harm others and himself. The shotgun was legally purchased. I suppose the laws of Washington don’t prevent purchase of firearms by people who’ve been involuntarily committed. (unless he bought it years ago, before the commitments). </p>
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<p>In washington apparently your right to buy a gun can be restored.
Or he has had the gun before the hospitalizations.
Or the records werent updated to reflect them.</p>
<p><a href=“http://www.ncsl.org/research/civil-and-criminal-justice/possession-of-a-firearm-by-the-mentally-ill.aspx”>http://www.ncsl.org/research/civil-and-criminal-justice/possession-of-a-firearm-by-the-mentally-ill.aspx</a></p>
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<p>Which apparently isnt unusual.
<a href=“Gun laws in the United States by state - Wikipedia”>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gun_laws_in_the_United_States_by_state</a></p>
<p>When I think of Virginia Tech, I think of Liviu Librescu, the most, not the killer. </p>