ammunition. two days after that a second rifle. four days later shot 19 kids and 2 adults, dead. this killer couldn t legally buy a beer. too immature but could legally buy weapons of war. maybe we could at least agree to raise the age of purchasing these weapons. just last year lawmakers lower to 18 the age some texans can get a handgun license. for rifles texas law mirrors federal, 18 and up you can buy one of these after just a basic background check but from an unlicensed dealer or gun show no check required. here in liberal-leaning california the legal age to buy assault-style rifles was up to 21 in 2019. struck down two weeks ago, back to 18. why? america would not exist without the heroism of the young adults who fought and died in our
26 people were killed. santa fe high school in 2018, 10 kill. and in 2019 the shooting at a wal-mart in el paso. 23 people dead. cnn s nick watt examines the laws that allowed a teen shooter to buy guns legally in texas. reporter: 19 small children slaughtered by a gunman not much older than they were. he was the legal owner of two ar-15-style rifles. they are assault rifles, so first thing he did when he turned 18. reporter: a week ago the day after his 18th birthday he bought a rifle according to the local state senator. next day, 375 rounds of ammunition. two days after that, a second rifle. four days later shot 19 kids and two adults dead. this killer couldn t legally buy a beer, too immature, but could
the so taken with the whole idea of it that he posted this online ad in the attempt to sell the script for his house of cards short film. as if it were an original dexter episode. and in fact the story of twitches computer, the one called sk confessions. there s a lot like that episode about the avenging psychopath. but now, here in his rental garage, police found and looked for it like a kill room there was plastic sheeting in here, an autopsy title, all matching the kerfuffle descriptions of descriptions in sk confessions. with the killer couldn t learn from dexter, though, was how to dispose of the body. the tv dexter of their own lives in die miami, dumps his victims in the atlantic.
we had huge discussions in the office about this. because ask a confessions, read more like a work of fiction, like a story that couldn t possibly be true. seems like a hoax, right from the opening paragraph. this is the story of my progression into becoming a serial killer. i don t remember the exact place and time it was i decided to become a serial killer. but i remember the station they hit me when i committed to the decision. it was a russian pure euphoria. there was something about urgently exploring my dark side, that greatly appealed to me. the author sk confession seemed inspired by the tv show dexter. up until i saw that, i was convinced that would i was was my own decision, my own path. now i truly wondered if i had little choice set at all and if genetics played a bigger role than i thought. i knew i was a psychopath,