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Maybe the parents were thinking it would be a good hobby? I think Adam Lanza’s mother did something similar. Obviously, the better choice would be to rent one from a gun range (ie gun stays at the range) instead of buying & keeping it at home. Or just get him into painting or coding or piano instead. JMO.
I don’t believe EC was suicidal. He had a gun, and could have used it on himself before he gunned down his school mates. He could have used it on himself before being taken down by LE, as other school shooters have. I also don’t believe his mother texted him “Don’t do it”, because she feared he would kill himself. She knew he had a gun, and she knew exactly what he planned to do with it. It was too late. He’d already done it, and he was either too emboldened by his own act, or too cowardly, to use it on himself.
If the legal system works, now he will pay the price and never walk the streets freely again.
jmo