[djf]

In retrospect, I think few gun owners would say that lady was anywheres near responsible in her ownership/handling/storage of her weapons, especially considering she had a KNOWN very troubled person living in her house.

She, and those innocent victims, paid the ultimate pride.

[Theoria]

A gun is merely a tool. A very effective tool. Her son could simply have stabbed her, etc. The fault belongs to her son, not to her.

[Pollster1]

In retrospect, I think few gun owners would say that lady was anywheres near responsible in her ownership/handling/storage of her weapons, especially considering she had a KNOWN very troubled person living in her house. I'm not convinced. I have not read or heard about her storage. Did she have loaded firearms in every corner of the home, like many of my relatives do? That would have been irresponsible with her troubled son. Did she have her firearms in a locked gun safe, with the key someplace that she could reasonably consider secure? If he took the key by force, it's hard to blame her for failing to fully prepare for that possibility.

[ModelBreaker]

“In retrospect, I think few gun owners would say that lady was anywheres near responsible in her ownership/handling/storage of her weapons, especially considering she had a KNOWN very troubled person living in her house.”

Fair enough. One of the NRA rules for gun storage is not to store them where unauthorized people can get to them. He should have been an unauthorized person.

OTOH, putting them into an impregnable fortress is not necessarily cost effective for many gun owners. Less than impregnable means a determined, but unauthorized, person can get to them. I don’t know what her situation was.