Oregon Shooter’s Father Calls for Gun Control - He has never held gun, never wants to [VIDEO]

Slate ^ | October 4, 2015 | Daniel Politi

[Cincinatus' Wife]

The father of the gunman who killed nine people at an Oregon community college before turning a gun on himself said the shooting “would not have happened” if his son would not have been able to amass so many weapons.

“The only thing I would like to say is a question that I would like to ask is how on earth could he compound 13 guns? How could that happen? They talk about gun laws, they talk about gun control but every time something like this happens they talk about it and nothing is done,” Ian Mercer told CNN. “I’m not trying to say that’s to blame for what happened but if Chris had not been able to get a hold of 13 guns, it wouldn’t have happened.” Ian Mercer also said he had no idea his son had any guns, let alone more than a dozen. Authorities recovered an additional weapon at the shooter’s home, bringing the total to 14.

Although Ian Mercer said he wouldn’t comment on any psychological issues his son was facing, he also noted that “obviously someone who goes and kills nine people has to have some kind of issue.”....

w/ VIDEO [about 5 minutes - "Shocked....I had no idea he had any guns......"]

[Cincinatus' Wife]

"Neighbors at a sprawling apartment complex in Torrance said they thought it was odd when a few years ago they saw Chris Harper Mercer and his mother carrying black cases that the neighbors suspected held firearms....." - Source

"ROSEBURG, Ore. — Christopher Harper-Mercer was withdrawn and quiet as he grew up in southern California, spending most of his time indoors at his mother’s apartment and deflecting neighbors when they asked him how he was doing, or why he always wore the same outfit of combat boots and green Army pants. But there was one subject that got him to open up: guns.

Mr. Harper-Mercer collected handguns and rifles, and he regularly went to a shooting range with his mother, said neighbors in Torrance, Calif., where the two lived until moving to Oregon in 2013. At a barbecue shortly before they left, Mr. Harper-Mercer spent hours talking with a next-door neighbor about guns and how he and his mother were excited to leave Los Angeles and get a fresh start.

“When we talked about guns and hunting, he was real open about it,” said the neighbor, Louie Flores, 32. “But anything about what was going on in his life, he really didn’t say too much at all.”......... - Source

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The Curious Case of Oregon Shooter Chris Harper-Mercer – A Social Media Profile Shaped, Modified and Deleted…

Birth Certificate Name is: Christopher Sean Mercer – 07/26/1989.

Mother: Laurel Margaret Harper – 04/05/1951

Dad: Ian Bernard Mercer – 05/15/1960

Divorced in 2006

[PghBaldy]

“Odd” they are hiding the mother. Why does the media not want to talk to the person closest to the killer?

[BlackVeil]

It is strange how this life story is almost the same as the guy guilty of the Sandy Hook massacre - living with his mother, who helps him amass an arsenal of guns. Except the Sandy Hook guy allegedly killed his mother before going on a shooting spree. (I have a lot of questions about the Sandy Hook incident, but don’t want to air that here.)

[Cincinatus' Wife]

".... the gunman's father, Ian Mercer, revealed he had no idea his son had any guns whatsoever and wondered how his son was able to obtain so many.

'Look all over the world, you don't see these kinds of mass shootings all over the world like you do in the United States,' he said during an interview with CNN.

'So someone has to ask the question, "How is it so easy to get all these guns?" Thirteen guns? I've never held a gun in my life - and I don't want to.'

'How are you able to compile that kind of arsenal?'

'It has to change, how can it not? Even people who believe in the right to bear arms, what right do you have to take people's lives?'

'That's what guns are, they're killers. What do you want a gun for?' ...... Source

[Cowboy Bob]

Mr. Brown Sugar should be more concerned about raising a mentally ill son. Did the boy take after the father?

[FlyingEagle]

Mr and Mrs MySpace Astro-Turf, from False Flag, Gungrabber County, UK.

[Cincinatus' Wife]

".......Mercer revealed he had last seen his son before Harper-Mercer moved to Oregon in 2013, and said they had had a 'harmonious' relationship.

'There isn't any kind of disharmony or bitterness between he and I,' Mercer said. 'When he was down here we went to dinner, did things sons and dads do. He lived with his mother the whole time.'

But Mercer would not comment on the mental health of his son, saying that he believes police will determine that in their investigations." Source

[SubMareener]

EXCLUSIVE: Mom of Oregon mass killer stockpiled firearms out of fear of stricter gun laws

The mother of the Oregon mass murderer stockpiled firearms because she feared stricter gun laws — and shopped around for a shooting range that would let her and her son fire away without supervision, the Daily News has learned.

Laurel Harper, a nurse who shared an apartment with her son Chris Harper Mercer, spoke openly about her love of guns, said the mother of one of her patients.

"She said she had multiple guns and believed wholeheartedly in the Second Amendment and wanted to get all the guns she could before someone outlawed them," Shelly Steele, who hired Harper to provide care for her sickly teenage son, told The News in an exclusive interview Saturday.

"My husband is an avid hunter and former military, so she would talk to him about it all the time, how she liked to take her son shooting," Steele said.

[SWAMPSNIPER]

Never held his son either.

[elcid1970]

“Even people who believe in the right to bear arms, what right do you have to take people’s lives? That’s what guns are, they’re killers. What do you want a gun for?”

Lousy stinking FASCIST!

“Guns are killers”!!? That’s the gungrabber mentality boiled down. Meanwhile you clueless Brit, go back to Old Blighty where your Muslim masters wait!

):^(

[Cincinatus' Wife]

'I didn't get a good feeling about him': Oregon college shooter was turned away from California firearms academy by an instructor who found him 'too anxious to get high-level training'

-- Chris Harper-Mercer murdered nine people and injured nine others at Umpqua Community College in Roseberg on Thursday

-- In 2012 or 2013 he tried to register for high-level firearms training at a private self-defense and law enforcement academy in Torrance, California

-- Elon Way, the president and head instructor, said he refused to take a beginner safety course and seemed 'spoiled, immature'

-- Harper-Mercer's mother Laurel Harper spoke out on Facebook in the past about her support of open-carry laws in Oregon

[LeoWindhorse]

cross breeding is not a good thing

look at our ‘president ‘

[Cincinatus' Wife]

“....Harper-Mercer enlisted in the U.S. Army and served for about a month in 2008 before being discharged for failing to meet administrative standards, military records showed....”

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3258933/Oregon-college-shooter-Chris-Harper-Mercer-turned-away-California-firearms-academy.html

[knarf]

Amen, and I agree

My question TODAY is;

How come we heard nothing but "he's down", "target is exterminated" and "brief shootout followed" ... for a full two plus days and it's suddenly changed to "he took his own life" ?

Was there so much gunsmoke the SWAT guys could't see through the eleventeen thousand rounds pumped towards the general direction of what the KNEW was the shooter, AND ... were they such bad shots, the shooter had time to assess the situation and take himself out ?

[Charles Henrickson]

Oregon Shooter’s Father Calls for Gun Control

Dad, I think you should have exercised a little more son control.

[Charles Henrickson]

He has never held gun, never wants to. . . .

Same here. I have never owned, held, or fired a gun, and I hope I never have to. But I do not want my Second Amendment rights infringed upon, in case I ever do need to.

[knarf]

ruh roh ... looks like they didn’t get their stories straight before turning achmed on to an innocent campus.

[Cincinatus' Wife]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3076470/How-does-country-fare-MURDER-MAP-Interactive-graphic-shows-homicide-rates-world.html

“....The only country to be included in the top 10 of countries with the highest murder rates outside of Latin America and the Caribbean is Swaziland, which has a homicide rate of 33.8 per 100,000 (shown on the [interactive] map).....”

http://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/260325/obama-never-letting-good-mass-shooting-go-waste-matthew-vadum

“.....Mass homicides may have a high profile, but they are actually low-frequency events, accounting, for example, for less than 1 per cent of all homicide cases in the United States and less than 3 per cent in Finland and Sweden.

And contrary to media-promoted myth, the United States doesn’t even have a high murder rate compared to other countries.....”

[Drango]

Father: How could that happen?

I blame the shooter and his enabling parents. That means you dad.

[xzins]

So, because his kid is evil, Satanic murderer, I should pay the price by having my right to protect myself and my family infringed? I don't think so. That strikes me as capitulation to murderers and bullies.