You have to feel a little sorry for the man. He has entered a new reality. He has entered a reality where his 26 year old son has murdered nine people. Nine classmates. His son took weapons to school and shot fellow classmates for being Christians.

Ian Mercer, father of the Umpqua killer, was interviewed on CNN and stated quite firmly that guns are responsible for the murders.

“They talk about gun laws, they talk about gun control. Every time something like this happens they talk about it and nothing is done,” said Ian Mercer.

“Look all over the world, you don’t see these kind of mass shootings all over the world on a consistent basis like you do in the United States,” he added.

According to an article on Breitbart, the killer’s mother is black and his father is white, but when he “came into the world, his birth father was not in the picture.” The killer graduated from the Switzer Learning Center, which specializes in troubled children. From the Switzer website:

While emotional issues may begin as a result of neglect, abuse, or a family history of illness, they often grow deeper as a child unsuccessfully struggles in schools ill-equipped to meet his or her specific needs because of untreated learning difficulties.

So, the killer came from a broken home. Graduated from a school for troubled children and left a note that “lamented the fact that he did not have a girlfriend. “He said he had no life,” another official said, adding: “He felt the world was against him.”

I am very sorry Ian Mercer, but you were put on notice, as were so many of these killers’ families, that you needed to take decisive action regarding your child.

Now, you want to blame the guns.

Let’s talk about responsible parenting and mental illness. Shall we?