This is truly tragic

Chaotic42

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Yeah, I just heard about this a couple of hours ago.

I wish someone could have eased his pain. It wasn't his fault.

Sad...
 

milagro

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But to some extent, you have to loathe the trooper not for his mistake on the job but leaving behind 4 kids without a father
 

andylawcc

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yes indeed, that's very tragic...

i wish the trooper's family for the best and hope that they can survive this ordeal.
 

IGBT

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Tragic indeed. And our law enforcement and the public is exposed to ever escalating numbers of criminal boarder jumpers and INS screw up's. Yet we expect the FBI and others to be a catch-all.
 

Lucky

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Its tragic, but to leave behind a wife and six kids? Sorry, but at least he could have done is crash his car on duty or something so his family could collect benefits. :(
 

olouie

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Originally posted by: IGBT
Tragic indeed. And our law enforcement and the public is exposed to ever escalating numbers of criminal boarder jumpers and INS screw up's. Yet we expect the FBI and others to be a catch-all.

 

No offence, but when I heard this news on radio, I was in total despair, except for a different reason. I know this will be controversial, but my sympathy stretches to the lost lives and their respective families and the family of the trooper. However, I will say that I found the officer's resignation to suicide as a remedy as further failure on his part. It is utter failure and worth disdain for him to intentionally and willfully leave 6 lives that were dependant upon him (not to even include the step-children). That is simply unacceptable in my opinion. Did he perceive himself as the Supreme Being who was incapable of errors? If he did, committing suicide hasn't remedied anything either. We are human and all make mistakes, albeit sometimes fatal. But to resort to suicide to remedy something that cannot be reversed, and in so doing make a widow and orphans is despicable and simply loses my respect. :(

Of course, this is my expressed opinion. Feel free to refute my statements, but please do not resort to argument against the person.