Posted on 11/23/2007 9:40:14 PM PST by LowOiL
Investigators tell Eyewitness News 40-year-old David Brockdorf met his ex-wife and their three children Thanksgiving night at a park in Unity, Montgomery County.
There he shot all four of them to death with a .22 caliber rifle before taking his own life just steps away.
(Excerpt) Read more at wjz.com ...
I can think of little more that could be more horrible.
May God comfort the grieving.
Prayers for the victims
I hate it when these stories are reported and there is no talk of motive.
It leads one to think the worst.
Was she seeing another man, and he couldn't take seeing his family being put into the hands of a rival?
Or was he just plain NUTS?
This cries out for explanation. Men do not just get up in the morning and say," Today is a great day to shoot my entire family."
The silence on motive here makes everyone think that all men are nacent monsters,a liberal socialist cultural fiction, when there is something behind the whole thing which begs explanation, even if it is absolutely no justification at all. Nothng could justify what he did.
I think it’s more simple than people think.
In spite of efforts to paint men as cold and emotionless brutes who only lust after sex and power, often the family is the only thing in this world that gives men purpose. In fact, many wives are far more religious than their husbands. We may have invented religion but we don’t see it the same way, typically.
So a man who has invested everything he is into his marriage might, when facing the loss of such, go to places he would never have planned to before.
But let me also add that some people are abusive narcissists and when faced with the prospect of losing control react violently.
But often we don’t hear enough of the details to know which is which in these cases.
But it is evil for a man to kill his children too, no matter the anger he feels towards his ex (and yes, it’s wrong for him to kill the ex also, no matter his grievance.)
You’d be surprised of how little a miniscule event will make some people snap.
Earlier story:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1929742/posts
Just another mental breakdown. There are 5,000 per day throughout the US...with at least a dozen involving a murder.
“The silence on motive here makes everyone think that all men are nacent monsters...”
As far as I’m concerned, any man who kills his whole family is a monster. I can’t imagine any excuse. Period. End of story.
Maryland Gun Laws: preventing horrible crimes for xx years. /s
Maryland “Freak State” PING!
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