Active shooter at UCLA

It's quite obvious today's shooter was deterred by the campus-wide ban on weapons.

 

I'm sure UCLA prof had it coming due to handing out a string of bad grades.

 

Why is everyone looking at me?

 

I doubt that was part of his thought process, assuming he even had a thought process.

 

He was costing them postgraduate scholarships!

 

Sad this professor had to die. Seems fated the student would have died eventually in some asshole manner. Shooting someone over a grade? Yeah, your priorities are in fucking order.

 

I'm kind of surprised this kind of thing doesn't happen more often. College can be a pressure cooker for these high achievers, especially in a time in which a "B" is seen as an abject failure.

 

Do we know the motive yet? Has someone claimed it was over a grade?

 

Once, in one of my nighttime MBA classes, I had an Indian student come to me after a class. It was late, the floor my office is on was empty, etc., etc., so it was kinda creepy. The student wanted to talk to me about the exam from the previous week. He then proceeded to tell me about this prophylactic treatment for tuberculosis he was being required to undergo. I was thinking, "OK, what does this have to do with last week's test?" Well, per him one of the side effects of the treatment was that he sometimes "heard voices," and during the exam that had been the case. Part of me chuckled and thought, "Well, these voices, they don't appear to know shit about so-and-so." But a much larger part said, "Hmmmm, let's get this young man the hell out of my office." Thus began my ritual of NEVER: A) going to my office immediately after the end of a night class; or B) being around my office more than the absolute minimum during finals week(s).

 

No one is responsible for what others claim.

 

This is the guy ... wrote an angry blog post about the professor.

 

I think the police said that it appeared to be the motive, yes.