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In reply to the discussion: So it seems "mom" was a full out gun nut survivalist whack job. [View all]Chemisse
(30,793 posts)As soon as we find out that she was a gun nut and a survivalist, all the ammo is unleashed on her.
In this thread alone, she is accused of blocking services for her son, teaching him how to shoot, leaving guns unlocked, failing to get mental health care for her son, worshiping her guns, in denial about her son's problems, failing to seek therapy for herself, having a dysfunctional family, and failing her son.
She is being called dumb, mentally ill (because she was proud of her gun collection), angry, crazy, and a whack job.
This is all conjecture, and is unfair to a woman who is dead by the hands of her son.
Until shown information to the contrary, I am going to assume that she was a typical mother, who loved her son, and actively worked to get him help. I am also going to be open to the possibility that the guns were locked up, and that he found a way to access them either against her will or without her knowledge.
Too often the parents - really more the mothers - of mass murderers are skewered by a critical public.
This could happen to any of us.
There but for the grace of the gods go I.
Edited to add: Now she is said to have assisted in the mass murder because she owned these guns.