I know this is not the main point of the article, but why do people allow 12 year olds unfettered access to guns? This makes no sense even with a perfectly sane child, much less a child the grandparents already knew had problems.
The sanity of the grandparents (and parents and relatives in other similar stories) is called into question.
It does if ones approach to guns are that they are a tool, which they are, and not some evil creation, which they aren't. I don't lock my hammers up, aside to keep them from being stolen, why should I have to do the same with a gun?
In this case, I am not saying that more precautions didn't need to be taken; they probably should have in retrospect. What I am saying, is that once the decision to kill was made, the 12 year old could have just as easily taken a baseball bat to them in their sleep, or carved them up with a butcher knife.
Don’t know anything about this kid, but my dad never locked up his guns. He was hardly insane.