I blame the mother

She got 240,000 in alimony. I live around people who dream of 25,000 a year with no home. Mother kept danger boy for two years after High School. Could have dumped the house, rented a 3K apt for herself, and put danger boy into a 200K/year setting.

If he didn’t want to go, violently?

Before anyone tells danger boy he is leaving the cocoon, the guns had to be gone. And knives. And bricks and brass lamps. Sell the guns and get rent a cops for D Day. This is not committing him. This is evicting a legal adult

Set up the intervention crowd, Say goodbye. When he blows, the cops are called and he gets hauled off to a lot cheaper facility on the State’s dime. Over 18, he had no claim for support. He would get an SSI check like everyone else, end up in a group home, and have a lot better supervision from someone who didn’t care as much, so was not blind to the threat

He might even learn to be happy without Mother, which he needed, badly, as his path was set

That’s why I blame Mother. If both Father and Mother had bailed, danger boy would have cracked earlier, when he had less ability to kill other people’s children

We don’t know what the “availability” was. That is speculative. Maybe they were locked up and she kept the combination on her computer and her son hacked into it or something or maybe they were locked with a key and he somehow obtained the keys.

crosspatch on December 20, 2012 at 12:06 PM

My guess is if she kept her guns locked away and he figured out some cunning way to break in, the media wouldn’t report it. It doesn’t advance the “irresponsible gun owner” meme, so it’s of no use to them.

like others have said, the fact that he tried to buy his own gun implies that the mom did NOT have the guns easily available…

Where’s the idiot father in all of this? Why does he get a pass?

envycat on December 20, 2012 at 1:06 PM

I’m going to take a wild guess that he and his family are grieving their losses, while taking steps to protect the family from being victimized by idiots.

They were always trying to count the VT murderer, though. Even in one of the memorial services.

Blake on December 20, 2012 at 1:36 PM

Really? He killed the most during his rampage, but I can’t even think of his name…Hu-something?

Remember after Columbine, this Illinois guy planted 15 crosses–one for each of the dead–and overnight, somebody dug up and smashed the ones for killers Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold (funny I remember those names.

Yeah, that’s the documentary I saw. He only fessed up because he knew that continuing to lie would hurt his chances of parole. Prison looked pretty nice, too. He had a television, computer, stereo, & pictures of naked ladies in his “cell.”

Blake on December 20, 2012 at 1:30 PM

What a detailed memory you have! Criminals certainly do have it better in Canada.

I’d like to see a follow-up. Now the parents know that everything the Crown Prosecutors said about their lil dumpling was true–including that he intended to kill them. Are they still behaving like he’s just away at college?

Furthermore, why isn’t there any more anger at our government? The mother was stockpiling ammunition and supplies because she was awaiting the financial collapse and wanted to be prepared.

The dire straights of our economic woes are a direct result of poor government policy.

ButterflyDragon on December 20, 2012 at 1:34 PM

If she was about to default on a variable rate mortgage, we’d never hear the end of it from the MSM.

The article is right about one major thing. All media count 26 murdered. The mother isn’t pictured with the victims. Or counted in their number.

Ladysmith CulchaVulcha on December 20, 2012 at 1:33 PM

They were always trying to count the VT murderer, though. Even in one of the memorial services.

The dire straights of our economic woes are a direct result of poor government policy.

If the economy didn’t suck so bad, perhaps she wouldn’t have been stockpiling weapons, ammunition and canned foods for the impending doom?

If we’re going to blame anyone other than the shooter, I prefer it be the government. Economic mess, mental health system is total crap, the politically correct crap that allows people to think we can have the mentally ill “function” in society without worry and those damn “gun free zones” where people get killed due to being defenseless.