From: jtem01@gmail.com   
      
   On 12/16/25 6:30 PM, Steven Douglas wrote:   
      
   > Maybe. We don't know the heartache he and his wife   
   > suffered while dealing with their son's addiction   
   > to drugs.   
      
   I spent a lot of time with Mick's song writer, Matt   
   Gilbert yesterday. He even bought me lunch!   
      
   He's on Methadone, and has been, except for the back   
   slides, for years & years.   
      
   Drug addiction is common place. And supposedly his   
   son started at 15.   
      
   15.   
      
   Cigarettes were the best I could afford at 15.   
      
   But even if he wasn't a contributor to his own demise:   
      
   >> Reiner is a life you celebrate, Kirk's life was stolen from   
   >> him. He was really only starting out, had another 35 years   
   >> to go!   
      
   He had a wonderful life, and I think it more appropriate to   
   celebrate that life than mourn his death.   
      
   Charlie Kirk was murdered by a stranger, taken at 31.   
      
   Compared to Rob Reiner, Kirk had another 47 years to go.   
      
   >> I think everyone feels "Rage" at some point. I wonder what   
   >> normalized violence to the point that it was an acceptable   
   >> solution for him?   
      
   > The drugs must have contributed to that. People can   
   > do some outrageous things when their mind is taken   
   > over by drugs.   
      
   Fact is that most druggies like drugs. They like taking drugs.   
   And addiction is both physical and psychological. I wonder if   
   they caught him at the party taking drugs and told him that   
   they were cutting him off again, or ordering him into rehab   
   "Or else."   
      
   >> I could blame society or I could wonder out loud.   
      
   > We can blame society for the fact that drugs have   
   > become such a part of our society.   
      
   Maybe he decided his parents were fascists. That would make   
   it okay.   
      
      
      
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