mcdreamylover

From cnn.com:
An Amish school?! I guess no school is safe anymore. Although I haven't heard of any private school shootings before.

TokyoNiGHTS

Yep this type of crime isn't restricted to any 1 sort of school out there. It's just an all round sad thing. School is suppose to be one of the places you're able to send you children without having to worry about their safety.

Lexis

Coroner: 6 dead in Amish school shooting - Yahoo! News

On the news, the children looked so young. I don't understand why someone would do this. Its horrible.

Jacob1983

Wow. There seems like there is a school shooting epidemic going on right now. I mean there was that college shooting in Canada earlier in September. Then last week, there was one in Colorado and another in Wisconsin. And now there is one in Pennsylvania. 6 people dead? The public school system should do something about this horrible problem and trend. And parents too.

chicah

Jacob1983: Obviously not public schools when they even shoot at Amish schools.

Everyone: To me this seems more of an American problem. No offense, but no other country has this problem (except this one shooting in Canada of course). I think it's far too easy to get a gun and ammo in the US, just look at "Bowling for Columbine" and you'll see how scaringly easy it is. If the law got restricted so no one were allowed to carry a gun unless they were police, and they didn't sell ammo basically on the streets, it'd be far less shootings like this.

TokyoNiGHTS

There are so many guns already out there that i'm not sure how much good a law like that would even do. Because its not like you're going to get people to suddenly turn in their guns. It's nice in theory but not really possible.

Jacob1983

Kids in schools just need to toughen up and try not to pay attention to bullies. I mean I was bullied and picked on a lot in middle school and high school and I turned out fine. High school students should realize that the things that happen when they're in high school will not matter in 5, 10, 20, years. No one is gonna care who dated who or who slept with who when you graduate and leave high school. I do think that bullies should take some note from school shootings and maybe realize that it is not cool to constantly tease, insult, and beat up someone just because they are different or because you don't like them.

chicah

TokyoNights: Other countries manage just fine. But even so, it's the attitude we have to change.

The attitude that actually makes people even consider to buy a gun and shoot their classmates and teachers. There's something seriously wrong when that happens so many times. Is it something in the society? Media? Hard to say. But it's clearly something. And THAT's what we have to stop.

TokyoNiGHTS

Something obviously has to be done. But in the case of this it wasn't even a kid doing it. The guy that did this was 32 years old and said he was taking revenge for something that happened to him 20 years ago. It's likely a combination of things. Being picked on in school combined with not having the life (job, wife, kids ect) that you wanted. Stopping something like that is next to impossible.

chicah

People have bad lives elsewhere too, but they don't walk around shooting people. It's not impossible. Because somewhere in the US it's like people think it's okay to shoot someone if you're angry at them. It's the lax policy and the thinking that makes it okay to carry guns, because if it's okay to carry them then it's obviously okay to use them too. Because what else would the point of carrying them be? I think it leads back to the question whether people should be allowed to carry guns or not.

justsmile

Okay I have to chime in. While this nice in theory, it's never going to happen in America. First the American Constitution, article 2 states that citizens have the right to bear arms. And because this... people take advantage. Now I don't support guns or the NRA, but unless someone contest the Bill of Rights for our country it's not going to stop...and no one is willing to take on the Bill of Rights right now. Also, as an American I can contest that I've never seen anyone buy ammo off the streets. I'm sure you can, I have seen some weird things but it's not happening on about 99.5% of the streets in America.

No, just no. The problem is that violence in my country is glorified and the ramifications are rarely/never seen. Most American's are not like that, and are just as horrified when it happens in other countries let alone our own country.

Now to topic. This is horrible what happened. The Amish are a small community and some crazy man invaded their school and did horrible things to children.

Manda105

I come from the Susquehanna Valley, which is where this occured, and it has rocked the community. Anyone around here knows the Amish as nice people who are extremely friendly when you speak with them at outdoor markets where they sell their fruits vegetables, baked good and other things. I feel absolutely horrible for them and cannot even imagine what their community is going through.

It's horrible that a man chose to take out a twenty year grudge on unsuspecting children who were doing nothing but attending school in there Amish community. It's so sad.

youandme1105

Stuff like this makes me sick. I don't care how "wronged" this man felt, nothing excuses the taking of innocent lives. Then he takes his own life to make sure he doesn't have to pay for what he did. My prayers are with the victims families.

mcdreamylover

That sicko should have gotten to a shrink if he was holding a grudge for that long.

Casandra

I live here too, about thirty miles from where this happened. One of the victims was flown to the hospital I work at before being airlifted again to Children's Hospital in Philly. It's completely horrendous. These were children, the youngest was six years old. SIX! The shooter's wife released a statement asking people to pray for her husband. I'm sorry, but hell no. He murdered three children, eight more are in critical condition at hospitals in our area. The hell if I'm going to pray for his wretched soul. As far as I'm concerned he can rot in the deepest pits of hell imaginable.

The motive for the shooting is unbelievable as well. A twenty year grudge that he takes out on children, when he's a father himself. I just don't understand any of it. It's not something I reconcile or wrap my mind around. And the thought that each child was shot execution style is just horrifying. Imagine those children just standing there, waiting to be shot, scared out of their minds. It's just........horrible.