> Now for the tough questions... If the mother had a develpmentally challenged and/or > emotionally unstable son (rather he lived with her or not) why didn't she secure her > firearms properly. Yes, that means she bears some responsibility for what happened.
A gun safe would have done 0 here. He could have just as easily killed her with a brick then got the guns. Or beat the hell out of her until she gave him the guns.
I give you this as something to think about. Some people are not wired right. You can not just lock them all up and throw away the key. As that is a system that is easily abused. But you can not let them roam around either as at any moment you could say or do something to set them off.
Most of the issue is also the media in some ways glorifies them and then makes sure it is not their fault. There is only 1 person to blame for what happened. There are tons of 'shoulda coulda wouldas' here. But only one person did it. Yet everyone is running around trying to figure out what they did wrong. They did nothing wrong. It was the guy who pulled the trigger who did the wrong thing.