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Last week, a tragedy plagued yet another college campus as Christopher Mercer entered Oregon Community College, and shot and killed 15 individuals. As the days roll on and the investigation continues, more is revealed into what lead to the horrible day.

Mercer’s mother, Laurel Harper, has the finger pointed in her direction as the one who is to blame for the mass shooting. Why; her son was diagnosed with a mental disorder; meaning Chris should not have been in the house with 13+ weapons to shoot up a school.

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Harper took to social media to post her love of guns and the right to carry as well as her son’s Asperger’s illness, which leads many to ask the question, if she knew that her son had a mental disease such as Asperger’s, why would she allow so many weapons in arm’s reach – between the Oregon Community College and the home Harper shared with her son, police recovered 14 weapons.

In her online posts about her right to bare arms:

“You can’t be that naive, can you? It’s ridiculously easy to understand the apprehension associated with open carry. I moved from So. Calif. to Oregon, from Southern Crime-a-mania to open carry. An open carry law won’t work everywhere . . . And when the mood strikes, and as long as we’re tossing around brand names, I sling an AR, Tek-9 or AK over my shoulder, or holster a Glock 21 (not 22), or one of my other handguns, like the Sig Sauer P226, and walk out the door. I find the shotguns are a little too cumbersome to open carry. ”

Although he was diagnosed with a mental health disorder, Mercer’s mother never suggested that any violent thoughts nor actions were seeping from her child.

“He’s no babbling idiot nor is his life worthless. He’s very intelligent and is working on a career in filmmaking,” she wrote. However, in a blog where Mercer religiously wrote down his thoughts, he spoke of Vester Flanagan, the man who shot and killed a camera and reporter on live television, as if what he did was in the stars.

“I have noticed that so many people like [Flanagan] are alone and unknown, yet when they spill a little blood, the whole world knows who they are. A man who was known by no one, is now known by everyone. His face splashed across every screen, his name across the lips of every person on the planet, all in the course of one day. Seems like the more people you kill, the more you’re in the limelight.”

Hmm…it seems as though the mother should have known better, however, it also seems like the son knew right from wrong, which is what would have come into question if he didn’t kill himself. So, is the mother to blame for her son’s actions? Let us know in the comments down bottom.

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SOURCE: CBS News