NPR: Mom Accused of Buying Weapons for 14-Year-Old Son

Mom Accused of Buying Weapons for 14-Year-Old Son

This is the kind of story that makes me scratch my head and wonder, "What was this person thinking?"

The Associated Press reports that the mother of a 14-year-old Pennsylvania boy, who was arrested Wednesday on charges of plotting a school attack, was herself charged, accused of buying weapons for her kid.

Michele Cossey, 46, bought her home-schooled son, Dillon, a .22-caliber handgun, a .22-caliber rifle and a 9 mm semiautomatic rifle, authorities said.
The teenager felt bullied and tried to recruit another boy for a possible attack at Plymouth Whitemarsh High School, authorities said. His mother was not accused of helping plot an attack, "but by virtue of her indulgence, she enabled him to get in this position," Montgomery County District Attorney Bruce L. Castor Jr. said.

The boy's father also tried to buy his son a weapon in 2005, authorities said, but couldn't because he's a felon. (Chalk one up to background checks.)

Dillon Cossey's attorney says the accusation that this was a "Columbine in the making" is "not borne out by the facts."

2:08 PM ET | 10-12-2007 | permalink

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As any Hollywood movie will tell you, guns solve all problems. Talk is for sissies. Real men escalate hostilities and take guff from no one. Kill 'em all and let God sort them out. Negotiation is for snail-eating Frenchmen. Neck-tie party for Michael Moore brought to you by Colt 45. Freedom Fries are complimentary. Cowboys over Patriots by 14 points.

Sent by John R. Otten | 3:36 PM ET | 10-12-2007

WTF? Lock that family up, please!

Sent by hiwattage | 3:13 PM ET | 10-15-2007

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