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Father of Oregon Shooter: How Is It So Easy to Get 13 Guns?
newsmax.com ^ | 10/3/2015 | Todd Beamon

Posted on 10/03/2015 3:37:15 PM PDT by rktman

The father of the Oregon community college shooter said Saturday that he "had no idea that he had any guns whatsoever" and called for more restrictions as he questioned how his 26-year-old son obtained as many as 13 firearms.

"How on Earth could he compile 13 guns? How can that happen?" asked Ian Mercer, the father of Christopher Harper-Mercer, who killed nine people and injured nine others in the shooting at Umpqua Community College in Roseburg.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: 2a; banglist; chrismercerfather; guncontrol; schoolshooting
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To: rktman

Clearly this should be the first concern of any parent of a mass murderer. Not why does he hate Christians or how could he be so evil.


61 posted on 10/03/2015 5:31:04 PM PDT by ilgipper
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To: UCANSEE2

Good catch. Guns are not compiled. They are collected.


62 posted on 10/03/2015 5:31:47 PM PDT by SisterK (its a spiritual war)
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To: rktman

How come your son had 13 guns and the students he killed were prevented from having any?


63 posted on 10/03/2015 5:33:16 PM PDT by Redmen4ever
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To: Lurkinanloomin

Yep.


64 posted on 10/03/2015 5:47:18 PM PDT by Irenic (The pencil sharpener and Elmer's glue is put away-- we've lost the red wheelbarrow)
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To: Presbyterian Reporter
Maybe he used his mom's car?

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65 posted on 10/03/2015 5:52:56 PM PDT by Irenic (The pencil sharpener and Elmer's glue is put away-- we've lost the red wheelbarrow)
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To: Irenic

Is that something from one of the perp’s accounts? For him, “help them find their lord and savior” seems to involve murder. I wonder if he killed previously?


66 posted on 10/03/2015 5:55:27 PM PDT by House Atreides (CRUZ or lose! Does TG have to be an ass every day?)
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To: House Atreides

I’ve been wondering the same. I found the link in Breitbart comment section by BobM88. Apparently he screened grabbed and saved the site before it was scrubbed, he also screen grabbed after it was wiped. Here’s the before: http://imgur.com/wvBZS0b


67 posted on 10/03/2015 5:59:40 PM PDT by Irenic (The pencil sharpener and Elmer's glue is put away-- we've lost the red wheelbarrow)
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To: rktman

Perhaps law enforcement should ask HIM this question.


68 posted on 10/03/2015 6:03:48 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: Secret Agent Man

What a crappy father. The mentally ill kid had 13 guns at home. Losers all.


69 posted on 10/03/2015 6:04:47 PM PDT by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?)
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To: TXBlair

“”How on Earth could he compile 13 guns? How can that happen?” asked Ian Mercer, the father of Christopher Harper-Mercer”

Even with our arcane gun laws, it’s quite easy as it should be. If this sick turd had run down nine people with his car, do you think anyone would be calling for restrictions on who can buy a car? This is all about disarming the populus plain and simple.


70 posted on 10/03/2015 6:13:44 PM PDT by vette6387
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To: Jim 0216

GFZ’s = Liberal Wet Dream = Really Terrible Results


71 posted on 10/03/2015 6:38:38 PM PDT by Postman (Flies landing on 0re0 know crap when they see it!)
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To: rktman; SgtBob; Chode; All

Fast&FuriousCredit.com

Next question ?


72 posted on 10/03/2015 6:53:17 PM PDT by mabarker1 (congress, The Opposite of Progress.)
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To: rktman

How about the rationale of an “unarmed” “security guard”? An oxymoron?


73 posted on 10/03/2015 7:06:39 PM PDT by RetiredTexasVet (Arrogance + stupidity + Muslims refugees = an 8th century 3rd world European Union utopia!)
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To: mabarker1
the FPOS would do well to go back where it came from.
74 posted on 10/03/2015 7:44:16 PM PDT by Chode (Stand UP and Be Counted, or line up and be numbered - *DTOM* -w- NO Pity for the LAZY)
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To: vette6387

True, I agree with you. But my issue in that quote that I posted was the father’s laying blame on the fact that his son was able to get so many guns, rather than expressing any sense of horror, remorse or responsibility. He might as well have come out and said that it wasn’t his son’s fault at all; that, in fact, he was just as much a victim of the evil gun manufacturers and lobby as the people he murdered were.


75 posted on 10/03/2015 7:49:33 PM PDT by TXBlair (We will not forget Benghazi, Mister Prez.)
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To: rktman

Uh, I thought he lived at home.
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He and his black mother lived in a 1-BR apt. in Oregon.

This guy Mercer was his step-father and apparently either estranged or divorced from the shooter’s mother.


76 posted on 10/03/2015 9:43:11 PM PDT by octex
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To: Macoozie

If Chris paid attention to his spawn,...
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Wasn’t his son.

Shooter was a mulatto with a black mother and was born in the UK. They came to the US when he was young and mom married Mercer.


77 posted on 10/03/2015 9:54:56 PM PDT by octex
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To: rktman
"How on Earth could he compile 13 guns? How can that happen?" asked Ian Mercer, the father of Christopher Harper-Mercer, who killed nine people and injured nine others in the shooting at Umpqua Community College in Roseburg.

The man is a fool trying to allay the horrible crime his son committed by blaming guns instead of his evil son.

In actuality if you want to commit mass murder guns are not the best weapon if you know a little bit of chemistry and it does not take that much knowledge.

His son was a deranged Islamist terrorist.

78 posted on 10/03/2015 10:47:20 PM PDT by cpdiii (DECKHAND, ROUGHNECK, GEOLOGIST, PILOT, PHARMACIST, LIBERTARIAN The Constitution is worth dying for.)
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To: rktman

The kid who wacked all those students in Santa Barbara, wasn’t his Dad some wacko Brit too?


79 posted on 10/04/2015 2:37:37 AM PDT by bjorn14 (Woe to those who call good evil and evil good. Isaiah 5:20)
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To: UCANSEE2

Uh, some Brit wanker?


80 posted on 10/04/2015 7:28:43 AM PDT by rktman (Enlisted in the Navy to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?!)
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