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Originally Posted by MS Fowler
No sorrow at all. She was a fool.
However, she is beyond the reach of any laws or retribution or punishment.
Focusing on her is, IMO, a fool's game. You are not, generally, a fool. I disagree with you often, but do not consider you a fool.
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True, but wouldn't there be value in analyzing this womans actions, and on those of them that served to make this atrocity easier to commit, and seeking to see how other suburban folk who use the weapons for sporting purposes might alter their own behavior to make repeat disasters less possible?
I think Raymr is exactly correct-
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Maybe this lady just didn't contemplate how dangerous her guns were. Living in a safe area, maybe she only saw the sport aspect and not the kill aspect. Maybe she presumed her son saw them the same way. "Who would ever use my guns to kill anybody?"
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Im thinking she was a woman who loved her son, was a decent law abiding person, and the thought would have never crossed her mind that such a thing could have happened. Now she is being harshly judged on a few actions, her storage of the weapons and training of her son, which is unfair taken from the rest of her life, but we have to be unfair when so many other people can be hurt from a few little seemingly harmless decisions at the time