Bound To Happen Again And Again And Again And...

A 45-year-old Los Angeles man who was apparently distraught over money troubles shot and killed his wife, three sons and mother-in-law before taking his own life, police said on Monday.

The father of three, was believed to have shot five members of his family and then himself sometime after 6 p.m. on Saturday.

It's "a very tragic scene, total devastation inside this home," Deputy Chief Michael Moore told reporters at a news conference. "Inside the home, officers discovered six bodies, all belonging to the family that lived at this location."

The man, a former employee of major accounting firms who had an MBA in finance but was having trouble finding a job, left three letters in the home detailing his financial difficulties, police said.

"We believe that he has become despondent recently over financial dealings and the financial situation of his household and that this murder-suicide event is a direct result of that," Moore said.

Many people have lost their jobs in recent month in the United States which, like many other countries, is struggling with a growing financial crisis. A government report last week said U.S. employers cut 159,000 nonfarm jobs in September, a ninth straight month of falling employment.

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Bound to happen again and again.

Get ready for more of these tragedies, there is little doubt the stories will become more numerous and no less tragic in the coming months.

Detroit Daily Dirt commented on a earlier incident where a 90 year old woman threatened with 30 foreclosure visits from her local police department attempted to take her own life but fortunately failed in the attempt when the police were sent to extract her from her home of over three decades.

A victim of prime lending bait and switch lending practices.

I wonder what the lending agent's name on that loan was?

I wonder if they sleep o.k. at night?

Back to today's story.

What kind of society puts so much status on consumerism that this man took his and his families life rather than face financial failure in a "classless" society?

Was it mental illness, religious conviction or societal shame that drove him to kill his family then himself?

What kind of shame was he attempting to save them from?

What skewed value system takes a man with a MBA and tells him he has no worth so often it becomes ingrained in him to the point of taking his whole family out of the equation?

What are his neighbors like?

Did anyone try to help him?

Did anyone watch it all happen of the last few months and do nothing?

Was he mentally ill?

Did he have medical coverage?

Could he avoid to pay for mental help even if he wanted it?

How many check points in our little world failed this man and his family?

How many times could we as his friends, neighbors and family have said "you have worth, you are somebody, we can help you."?

This man obviously made the wrong choice whether he was mentally able or not.

But before we shake our collective heads in disbelief and give a stern tsk tsk to a society uncaring, anonymous and ambiguous as surely most at fault.....who was also there the whole time?

We were.


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