Originally Posted by Rochard

The mother of the shooter who died is a great example.

Her son had mental issues, had a shrink assigned to him in high school, and everyone called him a "loner". The mother should have known he had a potential for violence. Instead of doing the right thing - and keeping firearms out of the house completely - she instead encouraged her son by taking him out shooting and thought nothing of the fact that her son spent most of his time in his room in the basement of the house playing Call Of Duty surrounded by posters of military hardware.

How could she not have seen this as being a potential problem?

She should be held liable here - she kept firearms in the house of someone who had recently received psychiatric help....