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Post by Mistress Rell on Oct 2, 2006 13:39:19 GMT -5
NEW YORK (Reuters) - A gunman attacked an Amish school in Pennsylvania on Monday, shooting and killing a number of people including an unknown number of students before he was captured or killed, police said. "There are a number dead. The exact number I am not sure at this point. There are also a number of wounded. And the shooter is not at large," said state police Corporal Ralph Striebig of rural Lancaster County. "There are multiple injuries. There are multiple casualties. I cannot give any names or numbers. It's a horrible, horrible tragedy," Lancaster County Coroner Gary Kirchner told Reuters. A local hospital said that three girls including one aged 11 were in critical condition with gunshot wounds. Full Story~~~~~~~~~~ I couldn't believe that someone would purposly want to hurt such a peaceful community.
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Post by Aaron on Oct 2, 2006 13:52:57 GMT -5
hmmm,, ehhhhh truth is when you go to school you'r just as open to violence as if you were away from school. Although I wouldn't be shocked if this is more of a "hatred" type of thing. Someone in the community ticked them off or they thought something that the Amish did was wrong.
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Post by Mistress Rell on Oct 2, 2006 13:55:28 GMT -5
A hate crime. That's the same thing I thought too. But what could someone hate them for? They way they live? Their religion? What? They have to be the most peaceful group of people ever. They interact with the outside communities well, so I don't get it.
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Post by Aaron on Oct 2, 2006 14:03:21 GMT -5
A hate crime. That's the same thing I thought too. But what could someone hate them for? They way they live? Their religion? What? They have to be the most peaceful group of people ever. They interact with the outside communities well, so I don't get it. They also stick out like a sore thumb too. Don't know -shrugs-. Look at the morman's lots still believe that they have plural marriages when in fact it's the group that have broken away from the main group and continue to do so. Yet, they still believe it. This is mass murder too. I always typically clump up school shootings in with hte mass murder. Which if that is the case it's not a hate crime per say. It could have been. But, it could have been just about anything. Maybe the person lost there job or maybe they got a funny look or someone hurt them in someway. Basically a mass murdere is someone that kills on a massive level and yet the reason is they just went off. After they calm down they are "better" but ...I dont know. what I do know is that we are going to keep hearing on the news more and more about school shootings. Also I am just waiting for when we have the "Columbine"reasoning of "It's the movies and cd's and video games". Which if that is the case then why aren't the Asian's killing one another? They see more violent things at an earlier age then we do. Plus, Canada has had a shooting just recently. So I'v been watching the news. This is pretty interesting. This could be a copycat. That is pretty interesting. Copycat's are always thought apon with mass murder or murders. Yet, I'v never really heard of a lot of things and such. So that could be it. But the most interesting is that these two cases colorado and this one is that they are outside forces.
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Post by Mistress Rell on Oct 3, 2006 7:54:49 GMT -5
As of 8 am 6 little girls have died.
This was a very angry man. He seperated the girls from the boys, and then shot the group of girls. Apparently it was over something that happened OVER TWENTY YEARS AGO[/b].
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Post by voltage on Oct 3, 2006 7:58:26 GMT -5
Yes, this was a childhood grudge. This is whats known as a sociopath. They seek out revenge thinking its right. Is he evil? of course not. After all anyone of us could be capable of this right?
Its a tragedy, but even the Amish are susceptible to bad apples every once in a while.
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Post by Aaron on Oct 3, 2006 10:31:20 GMT -5
Well people can hold in anger and agression. I wonder though what gave him the idea to doing it now. It must have hit a fever pitch for him to do it no. And, it's amish women. Maybe he wanted a girl and yet she denied him. There was some form of denial. I also wouldn't be shocked if the kids killed he knew there parents or family members. Excellent way at getting back at the source and yet not hurting the source. Maybe he couldn't bring himself to hurting those women. Since he built up an infatuation with them in his mind and to hurt them...would tear him up inside.
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Post by voltage on Oct 3, 2006 10:53:25 GMT -5
It could have been rejection of women, i can see that. Or maybe he couldnt sit at a table of girls because he asnt popular. who knows.
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Post by Aaron on Oct 3, 2006 11:05:21 GMT -5
It could have been rejection of women, i can see that. Or maybe he couldnt sit at a table of girls because he asnt popular. who knows. No then he would have hurt the boys. Girl's is the key here. Something the girl's did a really long time ago. Something he doesn't like in the Amish women. Makes him feel useless. But, the women are the key.
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Post by voltage on Oct 5, 2006 13:51:05 GMT -5
Well naturally the key is in the victims. If i gave one last stab at this Id say he suffered from a lot of rejection, this would make him feel all amish women the same. Hence why he killed all of them and not just blondes for example.
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Post by Aaron on Oct 8, 2006 14:49:09 GMT -5
Turns out he molested or raped one of the Amish women back when he was little. Something like that. So he thought he would do it again so went to the school.
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