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In reply to the discussion: Lots of blame for the Mother. Apparently Dad's off the hook , though, [View all]TorchTheWitch
(11,065 posts)I guess you could say I'm mentally disturbed since I have panic attacks and bouts of mild depression, but I would never think to shoot anyone including my own self. The only reason anyone doesn't have guns around me is because I don't want them around me and make that known.
Given the fact that not a single person who knew him had any inkling that he was either suicidal or homicidal and did know that he did know how to handle guns and went target shooting with his mother and brother and apparently also his father and was never known to handle them irresponsibly despite having some sort of mental illness why would the mother have believed that having guns in the house was horrible judgment? This woman loved her son and lived in the home with him. Do you really honestly believe if she had the slightest inkling that having guns in the house was a bad idea because he might for no known reason kill himself or anyone else with herself being the closest target that she'd still keep guns in the house??? Who the hell does that??? Don't you think her normal motherly and human concern for her own and her son's safety that if she had the slimmest of all possible thoughts that he might kill himself or someone else with her guns that she'd keep them in the house that she lived in with him???
This is more demonizing of the mentally ill and demonizing of a VICTIM of this horrible incident. Without knowing or exhibiting any indication whatsoever that he was dangerous to himself or others no guns should be around him when he had already shown perfectly fine gun handling and responsibility despite his mental illness? It's so easy to look at what he did in hindsight and point fingers of blame isn't it though it's pretty sicko to point fingers of blame at one of the victims of what he did and without pointing them at he who did it? He had no known suicidal or homicidal signs whatsoever according to everyone that knew him and had also previously shown that despite having a mental illness he WAS responsible around and using guns. It is only this incident that revealed to anyone that he in fact was both suicidal and homicidal, but you expect that somehow his mother should have known this despite there being no evidence for it, and she ended up paying for not being clairvoyant with her very life.