UCSB Student Arrested for Firing Gun in Isla Vista

Another perspective from a parent who had problems with mental health issues in Santa Barbara http://the-art-of-autism.com/an-open-...

Other news sources are reporting his name is Kevin Tym, not Kyle Tym.

IDIOT! Playing with a handgun? AFTER ALL THIS? IDIOT! I like my guns, but I HATE idiots like this guy possessing them! IDIOT!

What part of guns aren't toys don't people understand?

Ken: We live in an idiocracy. To quote Gene Wilder in Blazing Saddles: "You know...morons".

THE 21-year old NEEDED!!!!! -- "seven firearms and 1,000 rounds of ammunition. They also found high capacity assault rifle magazines. Authorities seized the firearms — which were all legally owned..."
Rethink the Second Amendment: this is insanity.

Good grief! How much more gangsta chic is this college town going to tolerate.

What a freaken IDIOT!!! Just another example of irresponsible college students

Why are kids doing drugs? Because they can.

What can more be said that already has...

Why invade Iraq? Because Bush/Cheney said to each other, We Can.

All Bush and Cheney needed was the approval of the majority of Democrats in the Congress, and they got it. Don't try an rewrite history for your own personal agenda, DD.

sure, after getting Powell to fib to the Security Council and WAY exaggerate the threat: you're so out of this foo this is all the time you get.

I am suspicious of the timing of this incident. I'm not surprised that guns exist in IV, but I've personally never seen a firearm in this entire county in the 14 years I've lived here. I think of this place as sort of a relatively 'gun free zone' by choice, although I'm not so naive to think that nobody owns them...

However I am still very suspicious of the timing in all this, with the gun control lobby in full swing these are the type of stories that keep people's eye on the ball of propaganda they are throwing at us.

I'm still not convinced that Elliot wasn't being pushed or groomed into a killer in one of his countless psychiatric programs he was involved in.

Anyways, if you don't believe my 'theories' that is fine, gun control is still not the answer. Here is a Harvard study about how gun control is actually counterproductive towards its goal:

http://theacru.org/acru/harvard_study...

Loonytoons: "I am suspicious of the timing of this incident."

Truther conspiracy theory coming up, internet links included in 3... 2... 1...

"I'm not surprised that guns exist in IV, but I've personally never seen a firearm in this entire county in the 14 years I've lived here."

Really? You haven't been exposed to too many people then have you?

"I think of this place as sort of a relatively 'gun free zone' by choice, although I'm not so naive to think that nobody owns them..."

You ARE naive! The previous comment is living proof!

So back to the IDIOT in question here, Kevin or Kyle Tym, we'll just refer to him as the grand poobah of IDIOTS.
Forget the fact that he owns a firearm (or 7), it was a legal purchase. However, let's look at what has happened: "He told deputies that he was playing with his handgun — a 9 mm Glock 17 — when he accidentally fired it through his neighbor’s wall."
Playing with a Glock 17 (one of my personal favorite sidearms) is as IDIOTIC as it gets and exhibits IRRESPONSIBILITY.
So how do you reward IDIOTIC and IRRESPONSIBLE behavior? Take his firearms and his "right" to own such systems AWAY!
That is the way it should be, do something stupid with a firearm, you lose the right to own a firearm.
By the way, I have cleaned out my Glock 17, as well as many of my other firearms and have NEVER had a round pop off.
This Kevin/Kyle Tym guy IS AN IDIOT and deserves to OWN ZERO FIREARMS. Want to prevent future incidents? keep weapons away from those who are IDIOTS such as this guy.

"Really? You haven't been exposed to too many people then have you?"

On the contrary...however most hippies don't own firearms and most of my friends are more along those lines or at least are peaceful types. However I used to have gang banger neighbors who were good friends of mine, still never seen any firearms. I know where the gun range is, I've never been there myself. I know people in the county who own firearms, but as I've said, never actually seen one besides those owned by police officers.

^^ you should cover your eyes, so nobody can see you.

loon i've seen plenty of guns in IV over the past 10 years... many of them brandished proudly by drunken party hosts. think, if IV had even HALF of the national average of guns per capita (0.89) there'd be over 10,000 guns in IV during peak school season. i think the real surprise is that the seemingly unusual events of the past week doesn't happen more often. we're still miles ahead of the rest of the country in this regard.

^^ I don't understand what you are trying to say. I know a couple people WITH guns (at least one of them in north county), the fact is, I have been here for 14 years and never seen a firearm is pretty indicative of the type of community this is. OBVIOUSLY I live in south county, I'm sure if I lived in north county I would likely see more firearms, though I don't feel any more or less safe in either area because both are relatively low crime areas for the most part.

I simply think this is all highly suspicious that all of these things, the IV Riots, the Elliot Rodgers massacre, kid shoots a gun off in IV and then we have a swatting incident all less than a month apart. This seems like it was designed to call for a community dialogue to increase gun control, which I think is extremely poor policy that causes more violence and reduces individual liberty.

I know many IV residents with legal guns and they're all sane. Exene Cervenka is the real hoax.

"loon i've seen plenty of guns in IV over the past 10 years... many of them brandished proudly by drunken party hosts."

Good god, HOW DRUNK WERE YOU?? That is ridiculous. I have been to thousands of IV parties and seen no such thing.

The only person I ever saw brandish a weapon at a party was Phil Spector and it wasn't in Isla Vista.