tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5590045056272885962.post1480546686279114445..comments2024-02-15T03:14:26.063-06:00Comments on The Barefoot Peckerwood: Bay City, Tx-Man Shoots 4 children and MotherRich Thttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17908318761918265392noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5590045056272885962.post-2406554863889297952011-12-02T13:02:49.099-06:002011-12-02T13:02:49.099-06:00Yes, family-destruction murder-suicides have been ...Yes, family-destruction murder-suicides have been on the rise. Maybe it reflects a terminal pessimism on the part of the fathers regarding the prospects of their families, mixed in with a twisted, self-destructive kind of loyalty. Maybe knowing that committing suicide alone would leave their families without a bread-winner and would be a kind of on-going betrayal, they decide to solve the problem not by getting help - which can still be quite hard and carry considerable stigma - but by destroying the family all at once in a single, consummate act of betrayal. I know it doesn't make a damn bit of sense to us, but someone that far down the road to suicide can be rational without being sane.A Readerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15288199981382663362noreply@blogger.com