Oregon Shooter's Mother Wrote About Guns In Online Forum

[Roudy]

Investigators say Harper-Mercer's mother has told them the son was struggling with some mental health issues.

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — The mother of a gunman who killed nine people and himself at an Oregon community college allowed her troubled son to have guns and acknowledged in online posts that he struggled with autism, but she didn't seem to know he was potentially violent.

The online writings by Laurel Harper date from a year ago to nine years ago and offer fresh insight into the gunman, 26-year-old Christopher Harper-Mercer, and his relationship with his mother.

The Associated Press didn't speak with Harper about the online postings; a knock on her door went unanswered Tuesday, and her phone's voicemail box was full. However, the postings included an email address that is linked to Harper.

She and Harper-Mercer shared an apartment outside Roseburg. Investigators have recovered 14 firearms — six found at Umpqua Community College, where the killings occurred, and eight at the apartment. Neighbors of the mother and son in California, where they lived before moving to Oregon in 2013, have said the two went target shooting together.

Investigators say Harper-Mercer's mother has told them the son was struggling with some mental health issues.

In her online postings, Laurel Harper talked about her love of guns and her son's emotional troubles, but there are no hints of worry that he could become violent.

"I keep two full mags in my Glock case. And the ARs & AKs all have loaded mags. No one will be 'dropping' by my house uninvited without acknowledgement," reads a 3-year-old posting.

She was referring to a Glock handgun and to military-style rifles. A Glock and a military-style rifle were among the weapons seized after the Roseburg shooting rampage.

Laurel Harper wrote in another posting: "I love the long guns & I have an AK-47 en route." She complained about gun-control efforts in "lame states."

She posted several times that her son had Asperger's syndrome, a mild form of autism.

More: Oregon Shooter's Mother Wrote About Guns In Online Forum

Struggling with mental health issues? Asperger's syndrome? Autism? Holy shit, this nut was a ticking time bomb - and his gun nut mother was too dumb to see it - or acknowledge it. The shooter was like a poster boy for universal background checks.

No.....do you know how many people in this country have those same mental health issues and don't kill anyone.....

He would have passed a universal background check moron.......just like he passed the current federally mandated background check..

The colorado shooter and the sandy hook shooter would have both passed universal background checks.

Did you mention that the mother is allegedly African American....? Seems like the press keeps forgetting that.....

How does the mother's "blackness" factor into your equation?

Because black lives matter? <ducking>

 

[Roudy]

Fuck you! With that attitude nothing will change.

It won't. The crazies have completely flooded this country with guns to the point of no return. You want to save lives? Invent a gun that can set phasers to 'stun.' Maybe stun guns will take the market share.

Ya just cant hold the black women responsible for giving her crazy ass son the go ahead to own firearms knowing he was nuts can you?

Fact: it's easier for bad guys to get a gun in this country than any other country on the entire planet.

There will be much less opportunity for bad guys to get guns when all guns are banned.

Nope, criminals get guns easily even when they are banned.

Criminals will always get guns, but it will be a lot harder for them, and, you won't have a nutjob / radical like this school shooter getting their hands on them.

 

[HereWeGoAgain]

It won't. The crazies have completely flooded this country with guns to the point of no return. You want to save lives? Invent a gun that can set phasers to 'stun.' Maybe stun guns will take the market share.

Ya just cant hold the black women responsible for giving her crazy ass son the go ahead to own firearms knowing he was nuts can you?

Fact: it's easier for bad guys to get a gun in this country than any other country on the entire planet.

There will be much less opportunity for bad guys to get guns when all guns are banned.

Nope, criminals get guns easily even when they are banned.

Criminals will always get guns, but it will be a lot harder for them, and, you won't have a nutjob / radical like this school shooter getting their hands on them.

So than they firebomb the school.

 

[Roudy]

Ya just cant hold the black women responsible for giving her crazy ass son the go ahead to own firearms knowing he was nuts can you?

Fact: it's easier for bad guys to get a gun in this country than any other country on the entire planet.

There will be much less opportunity for bad guys to get guns when all guns are banned.

Nope, criminals get guns easily even when they are banned.

Criminals will always get guns, but it will be a lot harder for them, and, you won't have a nutjob / radical like this school shooter getting their hands on them.

So than they firebomb the school.

Doesn't give the same psychological stimulus to someone wanting to kill people while they beg for their lives. They would be too detached from the act.

Firebombing is for a terrorist, and terrorists won't target schools.

 

[Wildman]

The shooter was like a poster boy for universal background checks.

he did pass several background checks, how would that have stopped him from killing nine (9) CHRISTIANS ??

you people are so fucking stupid, it amazes me you all know how to breathe!!

 

[Wildman]

I think they should outlaw and collect all guns, including from law enforcement.

great post for a retarded COMMIE !!

 

[Wildman]

You can't cure stupid.

<--------<<<< oooh yes you can.

 

[theHawk]

Investigators say Harper-Mercer's mother has told them the son was struggling with some mental health issues.

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — The mother of a gunman who killed nine people and himself at an Oregon community college allowed her troubled son to have guns and acknowledged in online posts that he struggled with autism, but she didn't seem to know he was potentially violent.

The online writings by Laurel Harper date from a year ago to nine years ago and offer fresh insight into the gunman, 26-year-old Christopher Harper-Mercer, and his relationship with his mother.

The Associated Press didn't speak with Harper about the online postings; a knock on her door went unanswered Tuesday, and her phone's voicemail box was full. However, the postings included an email address that is linked to Harper.

She and Harper-Mercer shared an apartment outside Roseburg. Investigators have recovered 14 firearms — six found at Umpqua Community College, where the killings occurred, and eight at the apartment. Neighbors of the mother and son in California, where they lived before moving to Oregon in 2013, have said the two went target shooting together.

Investigators say Harper-Mercer's mother has told them the son was struggling with some mental health issues.

In her online postings, Laurel Harper talked about her love of guns and her son's emotional troubles, but there are no hints of worry that he could become violent.

"I keep two full mags in my Glock case. And the ARs & AKs all have loaded mags. No one will be 'dropping' by my house uninvited without acknowledgement," reads a 3-year-old posting.

She was referring to a Glock handgun and to military-style rifles. A Glock and a military-style rifle were among the weapons seized after the Roseburg shooting rampage.

Laurel Harper wrote in another posting: "I love the long guns & I have an AK-47 en route." She complained about gun-control efforts in "lame states."

She posted several times that her son had Asperger's syndrome, a mild form of autism.

More: Oregon Shooter's Mother Wrote About Guns In Online Forum

Struggling with mental health issues? Asperger's syndrome? Autism? Holy shit, this nut was a ticking time bomb - and his gun nut mother was too dumb to see it - or acknowledge it. The shooter was like a poster boy for universal background checks.

I've been saying all along that most of these gun violence incidents are due to mental health issues, not gun issues.

This mental midget belonged in a mental hospital, not at a college.

Lock up the crazies and our mass shooter problems will go down dramatically.

 

[Politico]

This woman has a lot to answer for. She knew her son was unhinged but did nothing about it.

Yes she does. Why was a useless 26 year old Millennial still living at home in the basement? You probably can answer that one Fauxhota.

He was obviously still living at home due to his mental illness.

No he was living at home because he was a Millennial. There was nothing to occupy and no father to kick his ass out.

 

[2aguy]

This woman has a lot to answer for. She knew her son was unhinged but did nothing about it.

How do you know what his symptoms were.......how many people have his exact symptoms and don't shoot anyone?

The Army kicked him out after only one month in basic training. This guy had many red flags.

Yeah…doesn't mean a thing….you can get kicked out of the army for any number of reasons and most of them are not because you are dangerously mentally ill…..

 

[2aguy]

Not without killing US none combatants. The government knows it cant win a war with the American people. Why do you think dems wanted to label returning vets as terror threats? They know they're about to do something thats going to piss those vets off. The only way they win is to disarm the public and demonize our vets in hopes of turning the general public against them.
And again,the military wont side with the government unless it's a legal and moral order and this is the only thing holding dems back.

Winning a war is a different story. Using the military to get control and stay in power is another. Regardless of whether a people are armed or not, no govt. eventually wins a war if the people don't want them there. It's like a powder keg that will explode one day.

True to a certain extent,the government can hold onto power if the military supports them,but it's usually at the cost of civilian lives which of course doesnt go over to well with the populace which insures the eventual failure of the country.
If the military doesnt support em it'll be over quickly for those in power.

China, Iran, Syria, N. Korea, Cuba, etc. these are all govt.s that the people do not want them in power, but have the support of the military. They continue to kill and brutalize the people. Until a Western govt. interferes using military power, like with Iraq, Afghanistan, or Libya, it doesn't look like they're going away anytime soon. You cannot overthrow a govt. and it's military using "armed militias" of citizens in the 20th and 21st centuries.

The whole premise of the 2nd amendment is false and no longer valid. Unfortunately, nothing is going to change and we will keep seeing people killed in inner cities and horrific massacres like the Oregon school shooting.

So did those governments disarm the populace to gain and keep control of it's citizens?
The intent of the 2nd is pretty clear and still very valid.
The only way the gov wins is if the military turns on the people,which I highly doubt is going to happen in the U.S.

Exactly. The U.S. military will never turn on its people, and if it does the people have no chance anyhow. So why again do we need hundreds of millions of guns again? We are going to relive these school shootings again and again, not to mention daily the gun violence until we find a workable solution.

Do you really think the German people believed, in the modern age of 1939, with science, and universities and intellectual development and first world status, that the German military would participate in murdering 12 million innocent men, women and children…..really, you think they knew that was going to happen?

 

[2aguy]

Investigators say Harper-Mercer's mother has told them the son was struggling with some mental health issues.

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — The mother of a gunman who killed nine people and himself at an Oregon community college allowed her troubled son to have guns and acknowledged in online posts that he struggled with autism, but she didn't seem to know he was potentially violent.

The online writings by Laurel Harper date from a year ago to nine years ago and offer fresh insight into the gunman, 26-year-old Christopher Harper-Mercer, and his relationship with his mother.

The Associated Press didn't speak with Harper about the online postings; a knock on her door went unanswered Tuesday, and her phone's voicemail box was full. However, the postings included an email address that is linked to Harper.

She and Harper-Mercer shared an apartment outside Roseburg. Investigators have recovered 14 firearms — six found at Umpqua Community College, where the killings occurred, and eight at the apartment. Neighbors of the mother and son in California, where they lived before moving to Oregon in 2013, have said the two went target shooting together.

Investigators say Harper-Mercer's mother has told them the son was struggling with some mental health issues.

In her online postings, Laurel Harper talked about her love of guns and her son's emotional troubles, but there are no hints of worry that he could become violent.

"I keep two full mags in my Glock case. And the ARs & AKs all have loaded mags. No one will be 'dropping' by my house uninvited without acknowledgement," reads a 3-year-old posting.

She was referring to a Glock handgun and to military-style rifles. A Glock and a military-style rifle were among the weapons seized after the Roseburg shooting rampage.

Laurel Harper wrote in another posting: "I love the long guns & I have an AK-47 en route." She complained about gun-control efforts in "lame states."

She posted several times that her son had Asperger's syndrome, a mild form of autism.

More: Oregon Shooter's Mother Wrote About Guns In Online Forum

Struggling with mental health issues? Asperger's syndrome? Autism? Holy shit, this nut was a ticking time bomb - and his gun nut mother was too dumb to see it - or acknowledge it. The shooter was like a poster boy for universal background checks.

No.....do you know how many people in this country have those same mental health issues and don't kill anyone.....

He would have passed a universal background check moron.......just like he passed the current federally mandated background check..

The colorado shooter and the sandy hook shooter would have both passed universal background checks.

Did you mention that the mother is allegedly African American....? Seems like the press keeps forgetting that.....

How does the mother's "blackness" factor into your equation?

Just wondering if you guys thought he was a "White" black kid, like Zimmerman was a "White" hispanic……..

 

[HereWeGoAgain]

Fact: it's easier for bad guys to get a gun in this country than any other country on the entire planet.

There will be much less opportunity for bad guys to get guns when all guns are banned.

Nope, criminals get guns easily even when they are banned.

Criminals will always get guns, but it will be a lot harder for them, and, you won't have a nutjob / radical like this school shooter getting their hands on them.

So than they firebomb the school.

Doesn't give the same psychological stimulus to someone wanting to kill people while they beg for their lives. They would be too detached from the act.

Firebombing is for a terrorist, and terrorists won't target schools.

Now you're just speculating.
And terrorist do in fact target schools.

 

[Roudy]

Winning a war is a different story. Using the military to get control and stay in power is another. Regardless of whether a people are armed or not, no govt. eventually wins a war if the people don't want them there. It's like a powder keg that will explode one day.

True to a certain extent,the government can hold onto power if the military supports them,but it's usually at the cost of civilian lives which of course doesnt go over to well with the populace which insures the eventual failure of the country.
If the military doesnt support em it'll be over quickly for those in power.

China, Iran, Syria, N. Korea, Cuba, etc. these are all govt.s that the people do not want them in power, but have the support of the military. They continue to kill and brutalize the people. Until a Western govt. interferes using military power, like with Iraq, Afghanistan, or Libya, it doesn't look like they're going away anytime soon. You cannot overthrow a govt. and it's military using "armed militias" of citizens in the 20th and 21st centuries.

The whole premise of the 2nd amendment is false and no longer valid. Unfortunately, nothing is going to change and we will keep seeing people killed in inner cities and horrific massacres like the Oregon school shooting.

So did those governments disarm the populace to gain and keep control of it's citizens?
The intent of the 2nd is pretty clear and still very valid.
The only way the gov wins is if the military turns on the people,which I highly doubt is going to happen in the U.S.

Exactly. The U.S. military will never turn on its people, and if it does the people have no chance anyhow. So why again do we need hundreds of millions of guns again? We are going to relive these school shootings again and again, not to mention daily the gun violence until we find a workable solution.

Do you really think the German people believed, in the modern age of 1939, with science, and universities and intellectual development and first world status, that the German military would participate in murdering 12 million innocent men, women and children…..really, you think they knew that was going to happen?

Well you have a point. I never thought Americans would be foolish enough to actually vote for Obama, with full knowledge as to who he was beforehand. I don't think Germany of 1930 could be compared to US of today. Besides, allowing the people to carry small arms isn't a deterrent if the military truly wants to take over. The costs of guns being so open and available in this country far outweigh the theoretical benefits.

 

[Roudy]

There will be much less opportunity for bad guys to get guns when all guns are banned.

Nope, criminals get guns easily even when they are banned.

Criminals will always get guns, but it will be a lot harder for them, and, you won't have a nutjob / radical like this school shooter getting their hands on them.

So than they firebomb the school.

Doesn't give the same psychological stimulus to someone wanting to kill people while they beg for their lives. They would be too detached from the act.

Firebombing is for a terrorist, and terrorists won't target schools.

Now you're just speculating.
And terrorist do in fact target schools.

In the West it's not at the top of their list. They like to target big public events, govt buildings., specific individuals, and landmarks. Unless it's a school where they know certain govt. officials send their kids to, then yes. But those places are guarded well.

 

[M14 Shooter]

This woman has a lot to answer for. She knew her son was unhinged but did nothing about it.

How do you know what his symptoms were.......how many people have his exact symptoms and don't shoot anyone?

The Army kicked him out after only one month in basic training. This guy had many red flags.

Why do you refuse to understand that, regardless of these 'red flags', no background check would have stopped him from getting a gun, as it was not illegal for this guy to buy a gun?

 

[Sallow]

Investigators say Harper-Mercer's mother has told them the son was struggling with some mental health issues.

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — The mother of a gunman who killed nine people and himself at an Oregon community college allowed her troubled son to have guns and acknowledged in online posts that he struggled with autism, but she didn't seem to know he was potentially violent.

The online writings by Laurel Harper date from a year ago to nine years ago and offer fresh insight into the gunman, 26-year-old Christopher Harper-Mercer, and his relationship with his mother.

The Associated Press didn't speak with Harper about the online postings; a knock on her door went unanswered Tuesday, and her phone's voicemail box was full. However, the postings included an email address that is linked to Harper.

She and Harper-Mercer shared an apartment outside Roseburg. Investigators have recovered 14 firearms — six found at Umpqua Community College, where the killings occurred, and eight at the apartment. Neighbors of the mother and son in California, where they lived before moving to Oregon in 2013, have said the two went target shooting together.

Investigators say Harper-Mercer's mother has told them the son was struggling with some mental health issues.

In her online postings, Laurel Harper talked about her love of guns and her son's emotional troubles, but there are no hints of worry that he could become violent.

"I keep two full mags in my Glock case. And the ARs & AKs all have loaded mags. No one will be 'dropping' by my house uninvited without acknowledgement," reads a 3-year-old posting.

She was referring to a Glock handgun and to military-style rifles. A Glock and a military-style rifle were among the weapons seized after the Roseburg shooting rampage.

Laurel Harper wrote in another posting: "I love the long guns & I have an AK-47 en route." She complained about gun-control efforts in "lame states."

She posted several times that her son had Asperger's syndrome, a mild form of autism.

More: Oregon Shooter's Mother Wrote About Guns In Online Forum

Struggling with mental health issues? Asperger's syndrome? Autism? Holy shit, this nut was a ticking time bomb - and his gun nut mother was too dumb to see it - or acknowledge it. The shooter was like a poster boy for universal background checks.

Kyle's Killing Puts Spotlight on PTSD

Guns. The ultimate "cure" for mental illness.

According to gun nuts.

 

[2aguy]

True to a certain extent,the government can hold onto power if the military supports them,but it's usually at the cost of civilian lives which of course doesnt go over to well with the populace which insures the eventual failure of the country.
If the military doesnt support em it'll be over quickly for those in power.

China, Iran, Syria, N. Korea, Cuba, etc. these are all govt.s that the people do not want them in power, but have the support of the military. They continue to kill and brutalize the people. Until a Western govt. interferes using military power, like with Iraq, Afghanistan, or Libya, it doesn't look like they're going away anytime soon. You cannot overthrow a govt. and it's military using "armed militias" of citizens in the 20th and 21st centuries.

The whole premise of the 2nd amendment is false and no longer valid. Unfortunately, nothing is going to change and we will keep seeing people killed in inner cities and horrific massacres like the Oregon school shooting.

So did those governments disarm the populace to gain and keep control of it's citizens?
The intent of the 2nd is pretty clear and still very valid.
The only way the gov wins is if the military turns on the people,which I highly doubt is going to happen in the U.S.

Exactly. The U.S. military will never turn on its people, and if it does the people have no chance anyhow. So why again do we need hundreds of millions of guns again? We are going to relive these school shootings again and again, not to mention daily the gun violence until we find a workable solution.

Do you really think the German people believed, in the modern age of 1939, with science, and universities and intellectual development and first world status, that the German military would participate in murdering 12 million innocent men, women and children…..really, you think they knew that was going to happen?

Well you have a point. I never thought Americans would be foolish enough to actually vote for Obama, with full knowledge as to who he was beforehand. I don't think Germany of 1930 could be compared to US of today. Besides, allowing the people to carry small arms isn't a deterrent if the military truly wants to take over. The costs of guns being so open and available in this country far outweigh the theoretical benefits.

Not really…we have over 320 million guns in private hands…and only 8,145 gun murders…..that isn't even half of a percent that are used to commit the illegal act of murder.

And all of the countries of Europe, when their militaries surrendered, all of their populations were unarmed and helpless when the Germans occupied them…and then went on to murder 12 million people.

Now in Afghanistan, with small arms and improvised bombs…they have driven out the world most advanced military in the world…and not all of them have guns….

Now tell me again how 90 million homes with guns in them will not be able to stand up to the American military if it ever came to a conflict…….320 million guns in private hands….

The cost of guns……let's put numbers to it….

8,145 gun murders…in 2014. (That number is going down, not up as more Americans own and carry guns.)

505 accidental gun deaths in 2013 (last year for the numbers till 2014 comes out)

1.5 million Americans use guns to stop violent criminal attack (according to bill clinton)

The cost of not allowing Americans to own and carry guns would be far higher as those 1.5 million people would now be helpless in the face of violent criminal attack.

 

[2aguy]

Investigators say Harper-Mercer's mother has told them the son was struggling with some mental health issues.

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — The mother of a gunman who killed nine people and himself at an Oregon community college allowed her troubled son to have guns and acknowledged in online posts that he struggled with autism, but she didn't seem to know he was potentially violent.

The online writings by Laurel Harper date from a year ago to nine years ago and offer fresh insight into the gunman, 26-year-old Christopher Harper-Mercer, and his relationship with his mother.

The Associated Press didn't speak with Harper about the online postings; a knock on her door went unanswered Tuesday, and her phone's voicemail box was full. However, the postings included an email address that is linked to Harper.

She and Harper-Mercer shared an apartment outside Roseburg. Investigators have recovered 14 firearms — six found at Umpqua Community College, where the killings occurred, and eight at the apartment. Neighbors of the mother and son in California, where they lived before moving to Oregon in 2013, have said the two went target shooting together.

Investigators say Harper-Mercer's mother has told them the son was struggling with some mental health issues.

In her online postings, Laurel Harper talked about her love of guns and her son's emotional troubles, but there are no hints of worry that he could become violent.

"I keep two full mags in my Glock case. And the ARs & AKs all have loaded mags. No one will be 'dropping' by my house uninvited without acknowledgement," reads a 3-year-old posting.

She was referring to a Glock handgun and to military-style rifles. A Glock and a military-style rifle were among the weapons seized after the Roseburg shooting rampage.

Laurel Harper wrote in another posting: "I love the long guns & I have an AK-47 en route." She complained about gun-control efforts in "lame states."

She posted several times that her son had Asperger's syndrome, a mild form of autism.

More: Oregon Shooter's Mother Wrote About Guns In Online Forum

Struggling with mental health issues? Asperger's syndrome? Autism? Holy shit, this nut was a ticking time bomb - and his gun nut mother was too dumb to see it - or acknowledge it. The shooter was like a poster boy for universal background checks.

Kyle's Killing Puts Spotlight on PTSD

Guns. The ultimate "cure" for mental illness.

According to gun nuts.

Yeah…total gun murders in 2014….8,145.

Total violent crimes stopped by armed Americans (according to bill clinton) 1.5 million..

I think even you can tell which number is bigger….way bigger.

 

[2aguy]

This woman has a lot to answer for. She knew her son was unhinged but did nothing about it.

How do you know what his symptoms were.......how many people have his exact symptoms and don't shoot anyone?

The Army kicked him out after only one month in basic training. This guy had many red flags.

Why do you refuse to understand that, regardless of these 'red flags', no background check would have stopped him from getting a gun, as it was not illegal for this guy to buy a gun?

Oh…you and I both know he knows…..he is just an anti gun extremist who is stymied by the truth and reality because they fail to support his world view…so he has to ignore the truth and reality…otherwise he would have no way to argue his points.