“Whatever measures she may have taken, they were absolutely inadequate. A good gun safe cannot be broken into or picked by a young video game playing psychotic med taking doofus.”
Just wondering... what -is- necessary to get into a “good gun safe”?
A key, and combination, or....?
I’m sensing that the mother did in fact maintain a gun safe, and kept all (or most) of her weapons secured, at least most of the time.
But, for the purposes of “home defense”, how quickly can those stored weapons be accessed in a moment of extreme need?
Perhaps she chose to keep at lease one of them nearby, thinking at night. Perhaps he used that one against her, then discovered the combination, etc.
Usually the good ones have a combo lock. The really good ones have an electronic combo lock that cannot be ‘brute forced’ (trying every combo) open.
For the purpose of home defense (I have timed myself) I can get my gun safe open in less than a minute.
If she needed a ‘night time’ gun - she should have opened the safe and got it out to keep in her locked bedroom during the night - then locked it back up in the safe in her locked bedroom during the day.
My point is that whatever measures she took to keep her firearms out of the hands of a son she knew was going psycho - those measures were inadequate.
She had a responsibility. She failed in that responsibility and paid for it with her life - a lot of other people paid for it with their lives as well.