Sometimes it's hard to keep an open mind

  The headlines read 'Women killed in Colorado in 2013 by boyfriend shorty after announcing she was pregnant.:
  The first sentence of the article said that the boyfriend was a former basketball standout.  The woman was a very pretty white woman.  I knew before I read any further or saw the picture of the suspect that the boyfriend was black.   I was correct.
  It seems that getting pregnant and telling your partner about it can be a dangerous thing.  So can leaving an abusive partner.
  I can fully understand the boyfriends reluctance to becoming a father.  He should have used protection, abstained from sex, made sure the girlfriend was on the pill, or had a vasectomy. Only one of the above methods is foolproof so it is always a good idea to use that one.  If you just can't abstain the using at least two of the remaining three options is wise.
   The consequences of having sex should be discussed before you do the deed.  But now here I go again discussing responsible behavior when it is obvious that no one in this story was behaving responsibly.   of course not.  No one thinks the consequences will happen to them but the truth is sexually transmitted diseases are a reality as well as unwanted pregnancies and sometimes one person will kill the other to escape acting like an adult.  Changes are high that as the person is being killed they wish they had chosen a more mature approach to having sex.  It is too late then.  Some things once done cannot be undone.  
   I can understand why the guy didn't want to father a child.  It is either a big responsibility or expensive and/or both and it is possible to change ones life in a negative way.  I remember  Ray Caruth of Carolina Panther fame who killed his girlfriend because she was pregnant with his child.  I bet he wishes he had done the "honorable thing" or at least the responsible thing.
  I realize also that this time of crime is committed by men of every race and against women of any race and is certainly not limited to black on white or black on black.  it is human on human.  It's just hard to keep an open mind when your suspicions about who the perpetrator is correct only because the description of the incident leads you to that suspicion.
  I don't know why it is this way.  Killing another person may seem like a viable solution but after one commits the act then he begins to realize that the murder creates a host of other problems and some far worst than the problem he was trying to escape from.  Murder isn't a good solution for any problem.