One has to question mom training her psychiatrically ill son how to shoot and giving him free access to her gun collection. Flame away, but I sense something was a little off about this mother.
She was probably blinded by her love for her son and didn't see it. Or chose not to. Friends and relatives said they were not surprised.
As firearms go, a Glock, a Sig and a Bushmaster are fairly mundane although more than decent. That her brother is a LEO was mentioned above, and that might help explain her choices. My wife's family comes from upper midwest farm country and guns are just tools to her. They probably are even more so to a LEO's family.
Whichever Connecticut government agency was charged with taking care of Adam obviously failed miserably. Since Kennedy's Community Mental Health Act of 1963 (CMHA) this has been a lose-lose situation for the mentally ill and the people who come in contact with the mentally ill.
No doubt there will be lawsuits and there is a lot more information that will come out.
I agree with you I’m appalled that this disgusting animal was able to have access to all those guns.
I don’t know if it is known if he had free access to her guns?
Many serious mental illnesses don’t appear until late puberty to early 20s so depending on when she taught her children he may not have had any signs of mental illness at the time. We also do not really know if she taught this particular son or not. It is not like we can depend on the media to be accurate, they are more concerned with sensationalism than facts.
One has to question mom training her psychiatrically ill son how to shoot and giving him free access to her gun collection. Flame away, but I sense something was a little off about this mother.
Training him to shoot , I have no problem with. Free access to guns for a kid who was supposedly a known nutcase, big problem