People Who Kill Children Are Cowards

Just read an article about a gunman who killed a woman, himself and injured 4 children. How brave! I am not sure how people figure they have a right to take anyone else's life, because their lives suck. So many times, parents have financial troubles and their answer is to kill their children, spouse and themselves. So, you have a right to kill yourself, go for it. You are the one who has to answer for that. To kill your spouse and children, who do you think you are? These children might have grown up to be leaders of the country, they might have discovered the cure for who knows what. But, because you feel your life is in the pits, you take their lives. It is time for parents to stop looking at their children as possessions. These are little people, people who have a right to have a life. If your life is not what you want, change it, and if you do not have the cajones to do that, go somewhere and end it, if that is all you can see to do. Life is full of surprises, you never know what another day will bring. When you kill your family, that is purely selfish. It is like saying, I cannot make the life I want, so we all go.

If you feel that leaving your children behind is a bad thing, think again, at least they have a chance. If their lives turn out as sucky as yours, let them make the decision to end it all. It is not for you to make. You take their chances to go to school, to get married, have children and go through troubles, just like everyone else, you take that away. While your children are your responsibility, they are not something to dispose of, think of them. Stop thinking of what you want. Start thinking of what they deserve.

I do understand dispair, I have felt it myself, not knowing what else to do, and yes, suicide has crossed my mind. I do not have children, but I know that I could not in my deepest dispair, take a child with me. How can someone look into a childs eyes and shoot them? I have never even thought of taking someone with me, its my problem, not the worlds. The reason I feel dispair is not something I need to blame someone else for. Life can be tough, sometimes you have to man up or woman up and take the bad with the good. If you can't do that, then at least give your family a chance to do it.

If you think you are being brave, that you are not leaving anyone behind that someone else has to take care of, think again. You are not going to be thought of as brave, but a coward. A child who has not even had a chance to taste life and all it can offer, and you stop them, because you have problems. That is not even close to brave. Think of someone besides yourself, that is brave, that is what a parent does. They do not destroy their family because they cannot hack it anymore.

It makes you as bad as people who kill their children to get back at a mate or out of jealousy. How selfish can you be? It is like those children are roaches you just step on and their gone. You are not going to make anyone proud of you or impress anyone. Yes, the mother or father of those children will hurt and probably for the rest of their lives, but what about you? Do you think 20 years down the road, when you are old and in prison, you are going to think, wow, I am so glad I am spending the rest of my life in prison.

STOP and think. Your life will not always feel like it does now. There are people everyday who live successful lives after a relationship has broken up. To kill children over a bad relationship, is like saying, no one else will ever want me, so I want to spend the rest of my life behind bars. Bubba's in prison do not look kindly on child killers. Get a grip on reality, give yourself and your children a chance. One day you will have to answer and I am afraid, "my girlfriend/ wife wanted to leave me" is not going to be a really good answer. Be a man/woman, get on with your life and see what waits around the corner. If it is not a bad relationship, but financial problems, same rule applies. If you are not man or woman enough to see what tomorrow brings, take yourself out, but leave your children the chance to live.