Posted October 4, 2015 10:00 am by Comments

By Robert Farago

Ian Mercer (courtesy dailymail.co.uk)

“The father of the gunman who killed nine people at a community college here called on the nation to change its gun laws on Saturday, saying the massacre ‘would not have happened’ if his son had not been able to buy so many handguns and rifles,” nytimes.com reports. As the Brits would say, he would say that wouldn’t he? That and more . . ..

“How was he able to compile that kind of arsenal?” the father, Ian Mercer, said in an interview with CNN at his home in Tarzana, Calif. He said he had no idea that his son owned more than a dozen firearms . . .

the gunman’s father told CNN he did not know his son owned guns . . .

This despite the fact Chris Mercer’s neighbors’ portrayed the spree killer as an enthusiastic gun collector who frequently went target shooting with his mother.

Mr. Harper-Mercer’s parents divorced a decade ago, and he had lived with his mother. The father said he had not seen his son since he and his mother, Laurel Harper, moved to Oregon about two years ago, but said there was no “disharmony or any bitterness” between him and his son.

Mercer’s father’s …Read the Rest

Source:: Truth About Guns

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