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[quote=Anonymous]A major reason I don't think the family knew or tried to help him get away with it is that I have a brother who has mental health and addiction issues, and all the details that people seem to think should have ensured the family knew he was the shooter are things that could happen in my family today and be considered normal. An early morning phone call where he seems stressed and dysregulated? Totally normal, unfortunately. My parents driving cross country to facilitate something with his car that seems like it could be handled better another way? Also not really out of the ordinary. Jumpy behavior, strange habits, and the family not asking too many questions about them because he is likely to get upset and turn it into a fight? Yes, of course.

I'll also note my family is pretty imperfect. My mom is really controlling. My dad has a bad temper. There was abuse in my house growing up. I think everyone has mental health issues of some kind, including me, and if you met me you'd think I seemed like a very together, successful person.

But if a member of my family commit a horrible crime, I am sure people would look at all this and judge it all and say "come on, of course you knew" or whatever. Yet no one in my family has committed any crime at all that I'm aware of (even my brother with addiction issues is just an alcoholic -- I don't think he even uses illegal drugs) and I would be shocked and horrified to find out they had.

There are lots and lots of dysfunctional and mentally ill people in the world who are not mass murderers (thank god). They have family, and their families have acclimated to sometimes odd and troubling behavior as being normal for that person. What some of you are viewing as dramatic red flags that any one would have known was a sign of guilt here are, for lots of families, just their every day.[/quote]

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