5. Elliot Rodger
On May 23, 2014, 22-year-old Elliot Rodger killed 6 people and injured 14 others in Isla Vista California. He started with killing his roommates before driving to the University of California campus and shooting three more people. Then he drove around erratically, shooting people out the window of his car. His rampage ended when he crashed into a parked car before shooting himself in the head. Before the attacks, Rodger uploaded a video on Youtube entitled “Elliot Rodger’s Retribution” where he explains his motivations. He wanted to punish women for rejecting him and punish men for having better luck with women than he did. In the video and in his 107,000 word “manifesto”, Rodger talked about being a virgin and his extreme anger over the fact that girls didn’t seem to like him despite that fact that he believed he was a “supreme gentleman”.
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