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Kyle Reese
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PostMon Oct 02, 2006 1:33 pm    6 killed in Pennsylvania Amish School Shooting

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Coroner Reports 6 Dead in Pennsylvania Amish School Shooting
Monday, October 02, 2006
NICKEL MINES, Pa. � Six people were killed by a gunman at a one-room Amish schoolhouse in Lancaster County Monday, according to the county coroner.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,217073,00.html


My god, so many shootings and this is the worst yet.


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PostMon Oct 02, 2006 1:50 pm    

This is disgusting. What is wrong with people? Why do so many people feel the need to run into a school, kill innocent people and then themselves? Does it give them satisfaction to know they're ending a life so early with no justification?

My sentiments go out to the families of those who lost their lives.


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PostMon Oct 02, 2006 3:55 pm    

What is with all the school carnage in the past few weeks? Did I miss a memo? Absolutely sick. And this was at an elementary school, too...

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PostMon Oct 02, 2006 4:26 pm    

Madness! OMG! Killing innocent Children! I am so angry about this along with others. This world gone bonkers

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PostMon Oct 02, 2006 5:27 pm    

Arellia wrote:
What is with all the school carnage in the past few weeks? Did I miss a memo? Absolutely sick. And this was at an elementary school, too...


All the more horrifying.

I heard about this at school. My God. What is this world coming to?



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PostMon Oct 02, 2006 5:29 pm    

This is just horrifying. How are so many lunatics getting their hands on these guns?

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PostMon Oct 02, 2006 6:49 pm    

We're now at the age that schools will put more money into metal detectors then in books. Sick evil b*****d that did this. My condolensces to their families.

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PostMon Oct 02, 2006 7:35 pm    

The news media doesn't help much. I realize that they won't stop publishing these stories, and we can't expect them to, but the people who commit these atrocities are likely fueled by the news coverage they know they'll receive afterwards. This is a very sad situation indeed, and there's not much anyone can do if someone has a death wish. I'm glad I'm out of school now.


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PostTue Oct 03, 2006 7:07 pm    

I saw this on the news, on CNN. Pretty disturbing, Indeed.

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PostTue Oct 03, 2006 7:59 pm    

The scariest part is what the guy planned on doing to the girls.


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PostWed Oct 04, 2006 2:43 am    

Well it is beyond belief. Why. Just why. What else do you say all the sorrow has been said time and time again with the other shootings. Is it just an unexplainable fact of life, with no sense at all to why murderers choose children.

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PostSat Oct 07, 2006 10:03 am    

TrekkieMage wrote:
This is just horrifying. How are so many lunatics getting their hands on these guns?

Well, I imagine it wouldn't be hard. I hear they've got a right to them, after all.

But yes, such things are tragic, especially so close together. Our flag at school has been flying at half-mast all week (I'm not positive it is because of the shootings, but that seems the most likely cause).


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PostSat Oct 07, 2006 10:18 am    

People should be able to look at someone and get him/her therapy before something happens. Still this is one of the worst things that can happen.

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PostSat Oct 07, 2006 3:48 pm    

Sad development here...

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Amish Shooting Victim Begged to Be Shot First to Save Others

GEORGETOWN, Pa. � Under a cold, steady drizzle, the Amish drove in horse and buggy to a farmland cemetery Friday to bury the fifth of five girls shot to death by an intruder as new details emerged of heroism inside their schoolhouse.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,218459,00.html



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PostSat Oct 07, 2006 5:14 pm    

Wow... You don't see that in many people now adays.

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PostSat Oct 07, 2006 5:23 pm    

Lord Borg wrote:
Wow... You don't see that in many people now adays.


Yeah, we don't, and that's sad. The Amish are quite different, though, obviously, but regardless, for this thirteen-year-old girl to try to do this was a great thing. I think I would have done the same thing, were I with little kids, but that obviously can't be said for certain.



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PostSat Oct 07, 2006 7:45 pm    

Theresa wrote:
The scariest part is what the guy planned on doing to the girls.


I agree. I read that he brought zip ties, chains and lube with him. What a sicko.

It's amazing that so many of the Amish forgive him.


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PostSat Oct 07, 2006 8:49 pm    

They're a forgiving people. A great virtue.

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PostSun Oct 08, 2006 12:41 am    

madlilnerd wrote:
It's amazing that so many of the Amish forgive him.


Not many. They've all forgiven him. And yes, that is amazing, but it's there way, a way which it seems we all have abandoned.



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