Oregon Shooter's Mom Reportedly Bragged About Gun Stash and LOVES the Second Amendment
Laurel Harper, a nurse and the mother of Chris Harper Mercer, identified by news outlets as the Oregon shooter, was open about her love of guns, according to an acquaintance who hired Harper to care for her sick son.
"She said she had multiple guns and believed wholeheartedly in the Second Amendment and wanted to get all the guns she could before someone outlawed them," Shelly Steele told the New York Daily News.
Harper told Steele's husband that she purchased new guns a few weeks ago and took her son with her to shoot them, she said.
"If you know your son has mental health issues, do you encourage a fascination with guns?" Steele added, as quoted by the Daily News.
Vocativ also uncovered a comment on a Facebook thread about open carry laws that appeared to be authored by Harper.
"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,” Harper wrote in September 2014, according to the report. "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.”
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