Can the Reiner family tragedy ever be explained?
American Thinker,
by
Patricia McCarthy
Original Article
Posted By: Hazymac,
12/19/2025 9:21:18 AM
The unspeakable tragedy that has been visited upon the family of Rob Reiner has likely left all parents in shock.
Given what has been available to read about Nick Reiner these past several days, since the murder of his parents, it has shed a little light on what that family has endured since their son Nick was eight years old, maybe even before that.
He was apparently a difficult child long before he became a drug user.
His parents tried to help him way back then after he disrupted their yoga sessions.
They hired their trainer to work specifically with Nick, thinking yoga would help him
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
franq 12/19/2025 9:37:22 AM (No. 2043205)
Yes, if you believe the Bible. Not a popular idea, I know.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
earlybird 12/19/2025 9:37:34 AM (No. 2043206)
Yoga at age 8 with the family? And he was "disriptive"? Seriously...? That was a sign of what he was going tg become? 8 year old boys are not known for being happy doing yoga. I don't believe he was the misfit.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
Italiano 12/19/2025 9:44:03 AM (No. 2043210)
FTA: "Is there a lesson for us all within this horrific familial catastrophe?"
For most of us, thank God, no.
I can't speak for dysfunctional celebrity/political leftist Democrat families.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
Newtsche 12/19/2025 9:45:28 AM (No. 2043211)
Irony or chickens coming home to roost?
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
kidsmom 12/19/2025 9:46:21 AM (No. 2043212)
No loving parent "gives up" on a troubled child; but it occurs to me that the Reiners were listening to the wrong advisors. At some point (18 times in rehab????) "helping" becomes "enabling." Nick needed to be cut loose. If he was truly brain damaged, it would have become readily apparent. If not, he might have straightened himself out. This is sad on so many levels.....
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
Lucky5 12/19/2025 9:55:26 AM (No. 2043220)
He obviously should have been in an institution. Are there even any out there anymore? Some people are mentally ill with no cure. He seems like one of those. We have a big problem in our country with this. Most of the people like him are on the streets now.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
MrDeplorable 12/19/2025 10:04:15 AM (No. 2043225)
Poor parenting. Next question?
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
Hazymac 12/19/2025 10:07:32 AM (No. 2043229)
Since this double murder happened, I have been haunted by it, not being able to understand it. The Reiners did everything they could for wayward son Nick. Eighteen unsuccessful trips to rehab would seem to be insanity by pointless repetition, but what else was available? Prison? Kidnapping and forcing into rehab like a mafia chief's son? Most parents wouldn't go for that.
The Fifth Commandment tells us to honor our father and our mother. Most of us, who love (or loved) our parents without reservation, wouldn't dream of harming the two people who loved us the most and brought us up.
Rob Reiner's politics, particularly since the advent of the political Trump in 2015, were especially odious. His hatred of Trump was palpable. He openly slandered Trump at every opportunity. I didn't like what Trump said after Reiner's death, but, like Ms. McCarthy, I understand. Trump's been figuratively fired at, literally fired at, and actually hit. At some point, enough of that! But after what happened to Nick's parents, it's not politics that we're down to. It's something much more personal than that.
Nancy Grace pointed out that Nick planned and carried out the crime, making it first degree murder. Two murders in California make it murder with special circumstances. Even a very creative lawyer (which Nick has) will have a tough time arguing for insanity. Nick wasn't insane, just evil. He won't be back.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
bpl40 12/19/2025 10:11:00 AM (No. 2043231)
First of all, I don't understand why this is repeatedly being referred to as a tragedy. It was deliberate cold bloodied murder. Tragedy suggests fate was a player. It wasn't. Secondly, has there been a frank airing of the possibility that the Reiners' extreme Left, woke world view played a part in how they brought up their children and THAT perhaps had something to do with it?
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
janjan 12/19/2025 10:15:59 AM (No. 2043234)
People on heavy drugs can be violent and unpredictable. I have family experience with this but thank God a much better end story of healing and redemption. And yes, it can happen even with good parenting. I have no idea what the Reiners’ actual family dynamics were, but it is still a horrifying tragedy. Politically Rob Reiner was poisonous and I had no respect for him but I would not wish him dead.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
felixcat 12/19/2025 10:34:53 AM (No. 2043245)
If you have enough money, you can cover for a lot of failings. If Nick was not born to wealthy parents, he might have overdosed years ago and well, no more problems for Nick and his parents. Or not having access to the family wealth, he would be living on the streets like so many others who lack his financial resources. I don't recall Rob Reiner ever commenting on social media about the tragedy of all the fentanyl, etc flooding this country and how President Trump was trying to stop its entry into the US. Sorry but no sympathy from me for the Reiner family.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
happywarrior 12/19/2025 10:43:31 AM (No. 2043251)
Rehab 18 times? I have not read anymore that Nick Reiner spent any time in a mental facility. There are long term facilities, but you have to have money. The mental asylums that we knew of are long gone. Maybe the Reiners didn't like the stigma of one of their sons having a mental illness and preferred the more accepted drug addiction diagnosis. Oh, and you can't cure a mental illness with yoga techniques but that's Hollyweird for you.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
ldb51 12/19/2025 10:46:46 AM (No. 2043253)
For some people, treatment just makes them feel more positive about themselves and their disorder.
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ldb51 12/19/2025 10:51:26 AM (No. 2043259)
#9: That, and chronically referring to evil deeds as "accidents", is the way the Media Left constantly tries to separate people from their accountability.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
sanspeur 12/19/2025 10:55:57 AM (No. 2043262)
frankly ,ALL parents are not in shock ..something to ponder , yes .But , not shock .
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
Vaquero45 12/19/2025 11:03:18 AM (No. 2043269)
He “disrupted their yoga sessions”? I think a couple of swift kicks to his backside would have been in order. Maybe some judicious corporal punishment in his younger days would have straightened him out. That, and giving him a choice between drug use and having a family to support him. “Difficult child”, my arse. He had a fool for a father.
They don’t deserve any sympathy.
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