Fool's Gold

So the mother of this fool in California who killed four people before shooting himself in the head as the cabin he was in burned to the ground is being urged by family members to sue for wrongful death. Really? You want to sue the LAPD because your son had a screw loose and became a murderer? Supposedly the theory is that the family believes he was not fired for lying, as the police have alleged, but instead was wrongfully terminated without cause. And had he not been fired, he wouldn't have been so upset and gone on his killing spree, nor had to shoot himself in order to avoid prosecution. That's their theory. That's like me suing the family of the guy who hit me and claiming they're to blame for my drug issues. Was the accident a catalyst for those issues? Yes. But I ultimately chose to go down the path I did. This fool's firing, justified or not, was the catalyst for him to spring a leak BUT he made the choice to become a murderer. He did not kill people who were directly responsible for his dismissal, he took aim at anyone who was wearing an LAPD uniform. He killed innocent officers and he did it because he wanted to. The family seems to be alleging that if the LAPD just gave him a warning instead of firing him, none of this would have happened. But no one can know that for sure. Clearly, it was within him to be able to do such a terrible thing all along. People like that are ticking timebombs anyway. I feel for anyone who loses a family member, and especially a child, but you have to accept what your child became. He was a murderer. You should not profit from your son being a murderer. What you should be more concerned about is the families of his victims filing suit against you, which is equally ridiculous but could still happen. The whole thing was tragic but it's best to try and move on from it. Granted, the LAPD doesn't have the best record when it comes to transparency. So if these people decide to sue, it should be in order to obtain the whole truth, not for monetary gain.