Reports: At least 6 dead in Amish school shooting

[helderheid]

http://edition.cnn.com/2006/US/10/02/amish.shooting/

LANCASTER COUNTY, Pennsylvania (CNN) -- A lone gunman killed as many as six people in a one-room Amish schoolhouse before killing himself, initial reports said.

The man walked into the Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, schoolhouse Monday and ordered some students to leave before opening fire on the remaining students.

Pennsylvania state police spokesman Jack Lewis told CNN that the gunman shot and killed at least three students before turning the gun on himself.

A number of other children have been seriously injured, he said.

He said he did not know the motive for the attack. Watch police investigate shooting scene -- 1:00()

The county coroner said at least six people were killed in the shooting, The Associated Press reported.

Lancaster General Hospital initially received three young patients, ages 6 to 15 -- one in critical condition -- and expects to receive three more patients soon, spokeswoman Kim Hatch told CNN shortly after 1 p.m.

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[NVMojo]

1. Amerika --- FUBAR ---Fucked Up Beyond All Recognition

We can't keep our kids safe from pedophiles or murders ...talk about terrorism.

[niyad]

7. let us hope that the other acronym isn't true-Fucked Up Beyond All Repair

[fasttense]

2. I thought this was a bad joke. But it is real. What is with all the

school shootings lately? Is it the proliferation of guns or the proliferation of bad parents and bad schools?

[helderheid]

4. It's heartbreaking.

[newspeak]

11. nah, it's the proliferation of sociopaths in high places

that allows the other sick ones to come out of the woodwork. Of course, watching some of the sick, tasteless shows on the telly shows how far down the rabbit hole the US has gone.

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[rainy]

5. It's the pathology of a nation that treats people like throwaway

commodities.

[WI_DEM]

6. So sad. It's been a heartbreaking week of school killings.

[demnan]

8. If this keeps up

people will be sending their kids to school with guns for protection.

[helderheid]

9. I imagine many will start homeschooling

[Subdivisions]

10. REVISED UPDATE: Local man tells CNN that several girls were lined up

and shot by 70-year old man who seeking revenge for an incident that happened to him when he was 12 years old.

All the boys were ordered out of the room, the girls were lined up along a wall and were shot. At least three are dead with 7 others injured.

Source: CNN/Local presser

[helderheid]

12. Oh dear God...

:cry:

[newspeak]

13. Now that is plain SICK!!!!!

Like I said, more and more are coming out of the woodwork--sick people, sick society.

[helderheid]

14. Well I guess that's what happens when the "leaders" have no moral compass

[Beelzebud]

15. That was the point of Bowling For Columbine that everyone missed.

When I saw Bowling, I didn't see an anit-gun movie. I saw and anti-war, anti-violence movie.

[Binka]

16. The Micro Is Mimicking The Macro

When thieves and murderers occupy ones government tragedy is just a heartbeat away. Television in the US is a corrupt and evil beast. Pity that children do not learn critical thinking. Greed and power lust a very nasty combination. Most people are too fucking stupid to recognize evil when it lies in wait for them. Pity.

[Bombtrack]

17. Could we just fucking hold up on the full extent of the liberal stereotype

and not immediately make sweeping definative statements about the cause being what many of the posts are saying it is.

[helderheid]

18. is this directed to the op?

[Bombtrack]

19. no, it's the responders waxing pseudo-intellectual about it's cause

and generally tilting towards the unnecessarily abstract and bullshit-filled, such as post # 5.

[Junkdrawer]

22. You mean like saying that this is the gun-nut version of the Seven Virgins

fantasy.

:shrug:

[MisterHowdy]

20. Ban guns.

I know there are many responsible gun owners out there, but all it takes is one lunatic with his/her hunting rifle and people die.

No more guns. Just my opinion of course.

[Bombtrack]

21. Freepers: ARM THE STUDENTS !!!

I'm not making this shit up

[Bettie]

23. That is scary, but too true

My brother, who is an extreme right winger, called me just after I heard about this.

I was really upset by it and asked him what he thought about people who use their "god given" second amendment rights in this way. He replied that if the teacher and/or students had been armed, this would never have happened.

I pointed out to him that that Amish are non-violent and he said that they deserve to die if they "won't" defend themselves.

I don't think I'm going to talk to him anymore. Its just not worth it.