mother writes on yahoo! answers, a forum there how she kept numerous firearms in her home loaded and she was very well versed on the subject, offering sa safety tips to others, and the new york times first discovered laurel harper s posts that also reveal information about her son s mental health and how she was trying to help him. dan simon is the correspondent, and he is with me from roseberg, oregon, and dan, some of the revelation revelations are just mystifying, knowing what we know now, and walk me through what these postings tell us about her, and her son s mental health, and the guns that they chose to share between the two of them. well, ashleigh, first, take a step back to look at what we know here sh, and we we know th the gunman s father told cnn that he had no idea that his son had any guns let alone more than a dozen of them. and well, it seems to be quite the opposite here with the
spectrum themselves, and so the ability to see what is go g ing and the potential explosiveness may not be as good as somebody who is not. and let me ask you this. the new york times interviewed somebody named alex jefferson who worked with mrs. harper, ms. harper, and that personal lex jefferson said that this mother had said of her son, my son is a real big problem of mine. he has some psychological problem, and sometimes he takes his medication, and sometimes he doesn t, and that is where the big problem is when he doesn t take the medication. she also talked about online her son banging his head against the wall, and how this is her lifelong work. and previous signs of aggression, and signs of depression and as in being willing to take your own life and other people s in the process, and having great struggle that you deal with by being aggressive and blaming others, and in other words, if the mother is trying to tell