April 3, 2018
By Ethan Baron
The night before Nasim Aghdam (click here) opened fire in a courtyard at YouTube’s headquarters Tuesday afternoon, Mountain View police found the San Diego woman sleeping in her car.
By Ethan Baron
The night before Nasim Aghdam (click here) opened fire in a courtyard at YouTube’s headquarters Tuesday afternoon, Mountain View police found the San Diego woman sleeping in her car.
She had been reported missing by her family in Southern California, and her father Ismail Aghdam told police she might be going to YouTube because she “hated” the company. Police called the family at 2 a.m. Tuesday to say she’d been found and that everything was “under control,” her father said.
But hours later, his daughter was dead of a self-inflicted gunshot after shooting three people and causing an afternoon of terror at YouTube’s headquarters...
California has some pretty aggressive laws regarding mental health and suspected motives for gun violence. Unfortunately, those laws didn't come into play when Ms. Aghdam's family reported her missing to police and stating she hated the "You Tube" company.
I would like to think there is a way to fix this mess so it would never happen again, but, there are just too many guns on the street. I am relieved all those effected by the shooting are safe. There is a report of a woman having a piece of a bullet lodged in her shoe. I never thought of shoes as armor before.
The young people marching for better gun control need to be joined by the rest of the country to end the sales of military style weapons. The kids are right. It is their future they are fighting for and here again we see laws that do not reach into the reality of an angry person. I do not believe Ms. Aghdam had a profound mental illness to prevent her from obtaining a 9 mm handgun, but, I do believe anger carries it's own permission to ACT in hatred.
There is no labeling that should be taking place in regard to activists or animal rights proponents. They are not all so angry the feeling cannot be contained. Statistically, this was probably within the scope of possibilities.
My sincerest sympathies to the family and friends of Nasim Aghdam; they don't deserve the grief they are suffering either. There was nothing they could have done differently, they sent out a call for a beloved woman along with the reason to be worried about her future actions. They were more than responsible in their actions to try to stop her. The clues were missed. They were all over her video. It even shows an assault rifle.
As far as making quality changes to "You Tube;" for those serious about their craft and seek monetary gain from their activist stand, there should be a mentoring process included with access that carries a fee. There should be an understanding that "You Tube" is guided access with rules that treat all equally. If people posting content are aggrieved for some reason, they should receive more than censorship, but, a reason and for god sake's cite the law that is believed to be oppressing their expression. We all know freedom of speech is not completely free.
I look at it this way, if Ms. Aghdam's content crossed some line somewhere that protected the public, then "You Tube" prevented hatred and violence. Instead, they shouldered their decisions and were the focus of the anger.
There are too many guns on the street folks. They are not pea shooters either. They are semi-automatic weapons that police warned us about a long time ago when they asked to armed equally with criminals.
Start marching.
California has some pretty aggressive laws regarding mental health and suspected motives for gun violence. Unfortunately, those laws didn't come into play when Ms. Aghdam's family reported her missing to police and stating she hated the "You Tube" company.
I would like to think there is a way to fix this mess so it would never happen again, but, there are just too many guns on the street. I am relieved all those effected by the shooting are safe. There is a report of a woman having a piece of a bullet lodged in her shoe. I never thought of shoes as armor before.
The young people marching for better gun control need to be joined by the rest of the country to end the sales of military style weapons. The kids are right. It is their future they are fighting for and here again we see laws that do not reach into the reality of an angry person. I do not believe Ms. Aghdam had a profound mental illness to prevent her from obtaining a 9 mm handgun, but, I do believe anger carries it's own permission to ACT in hatred.
There is no labeling that should be taking place in regard to activists or animal rights proponents. They are not all so angry the feeling cannot be contained. Statistically, this was probably within the scope of possibilities.
My sincerest sympathies to the family and friends of Nasim Aghdam; they don't deserve the grief they are suffering either. There was nothing they could have done differently, they sent out a call for a beloved woman along with the reason to be worried about her future actions. They were more than responsible in their actions to try to stop her. The clues were missed. They were all over her video. It even shows an assault rifle.
As far as making quality changes to "You Tube;" for those serious about their craft and seek monetary gain from their activist stand, there should be a mentoring process included with access that carries a fee. There should be an understanding that "You Tube" is guided access with rules that treat all equally. If people posting content are aggrieved for some reason, they should receive more than censorship, but, a reason and for god sake's cite the law that is believed to be oppressing their expression. We all know freedom of speech is not completely free.
I look at it this way, if Ms. Aghdam's content crossed some line somewhere that protected the public, then "You Tube" prevented hatred and violence. Instead, they shouldered their decisions and were the focus of the anger.
There are too many guns on the street folks. They are not pea shooters either. They are semi-automatic weapons that police warned us about a long time ago when they asked to armed equally with criminals.
Start marching.
