Mother of Oregon Gunman Wrote of Keeping Firearms.

[elleng]

(in case not already posted)

In a series of online postings over a decade, the mother of the gunman who opened fire on classmates at Umpqua Community College in Oregon said she kept numerous firearms in her home and opened up about her difficulties raising a troubled son who used to bang his head against the wall.

All the while the mother, Laurel Margaret Harper, expressed hope that her son, Christopher Harper-Mercer, could lead a successful life in finance or as a filmmaker. Instead, Mr. Harper-Mercer, 26, took his own life after shooting nine others to death and wounding several others during a campus rampage last week.

Answering a question about state gun laws several years ago, Ms. Harper, a registered nurse, took a jab at “lame states” that impose limits on keeping loaded firearms in the home, and noted that she had AR-15 and AK-47 semiautomatic rifles, along with a Glock handgun. She also indicated that her son, who lived with her, was well versed in guns, citing him as her source of information on gun laws, saying he “has much knowledge in this field.”

“I keep two full mags in my Glock case. And the ARs & AKs all have loaded mags,” Ms. Harper wrote. “No one will be ‘dropping’ by my house uninvited without acknowledgement.”

The posts were found on Yahoo Answers, a site where Ms. Harper spent hours over the last 10 years, mostly answering medical questions from strangers, occasionally citing her own difficulties raising a troubled child.

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/06/us/mother-of-oregon-gunman-wrote-of-keeping-firearms.html?

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1. Mental illness tends to run in families. So does obsession with guns. n/t

[onehandle]

4. Ding Ding Ding Ding Ding!

We have a winner.

[Tommy2Tone]

2. She should be jailed

for having guns around a child, let alone a troubled child.

[beevul]

3. Troubled, but not a child, the guy was 26. N/T

[Tommy2Tone]

5. Post said they went back a decade and talked of raising a troubled son

10 years ago would have made him 16.

[beevul]

6. If thats what you refer to, I stand corrected. N/T

[mainstreetonce]

10. Agreed

We need Mrs. Lanza's law. Your disturbed child is allowed to access guns,you are responsible for whatever happens.

[brush]

7. One has to question this woman's intelligence and/or sanity

She knew her son was troubled yet kept a small arsenal of loaded weapons around and encouraged him to embrace them and plug into gun culture.

Was she under a rock when Sandy Hook happened when another sick son of a mother who kept guns around the house was killed by him who then went on to kill twenty some school children and school staff with guns?

What the hell has she been thinking all these years?

[geomon666]

8. She cared more about the guns than her own son.

That's what I take away from it anyway.

[Dems to Win]

9. She was infested with NRA propaganda

I'm SO sick of human beings dying to protect the gun rights of stupid, cruel, selfish NRA and 2nd amendment devotees.

Here's another article about her:

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/exclusive-mom-ore-shooter-stockpiled-guns-article-1.2384460

Ten people would be alive today if she hadn't bought into the NRA line.

[Lee-Lee]

11. Another great example of a parent of a mentally ill child refusing to acknowledge what their child

is and to take the right precautions.

I'm sure she had the same denials as every other example, I'm sure she avoided treatment because she didn't want him "labeled" or "in the system".

I've seen the story over and over...