Mother Shoots and Kills Son...News From NC
Posted by elizam on January 16, 2012 at 6:45pm
This story made me so upset! http://hickory.wbtv.com/news/crime/70565-mother-shoots-kills-son-during-bedroom-assault
I hate to even think what the comments will be from the general public.
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Elizabeth
divorced from BP dh
mom to Charlie, 18yods, living with friends, BP, substance abuser, high school droupout forced out by the school, BUT a reader, thinker, and lover of music, pianist...working on GED
dd 17, lovely, mature young lady, dancer, no dxes
ds 12, sweet, outdoors lover, car enthusiast, Mr. Fix it, no dxes, possible ADHD
dd 8, Miss Merry Sunshine, drama queen, dancer and gymnast, very mood swingy
Would this have played out differently if they did not have a gun in the house?
Jistac
Mother of 3 (23,20,17) with a variety of mental health issues. Been involved with using Empower as a treatment since 2003
Of course it would have played out differently. The father may have been severely injured or killed. Maybe the mother could have knocked her son unconscious and maybe or maybe not caused brain damage. The mother maybe would have only lost some teeth or a kidney. Who knows, but of course it would have played out differently, but how, we'll never know. There are infinite variations of outcome, even if with the gun she managed to hit a leg, or somewhere less fatal, although I am sure she was just doing as she had trained to do when confronted with a life-threatening attacker.
It also would have played out differently as in perhaps not at all - had the son been able to have proper treatment in advance. So many families are desperate to get their adult child help but they are powerless. The son needed to be in a dual-diagnosis treatment facility - whether he wanted it or not.
--Jeanie