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Amish School Shooting

CptColumbo said:
http://www.charter.net/news/read.php?ps=1018&id=13135691&_LT=HOME_LARSDCCLM_UNEWS

What kind of person is not only too big a coward to kill himself (he left a suicide note), but attacks people who are pacifists?

Just when you think human beings can't get any worse, they prove you wrong.
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If he was trying to shoot an Amish School, he should have used a 75mm howitzer or recoiless rifle. :p He could have avoided all that murder by waiting until school was out. Sadly, he killed some people. :mad:

Happily, he appears to have shot himself. At least he hit one valid target. Now, if he would only have done that before he started shooting at all those other people . . . it would be a suicide story, not a rampage story.

Need to reissue that suicide manual.

*strike "shoot a whole bunch of people, then shoot self"* and add "shoot self"

That ought to do the trick. Getting the nutters to read the manual is quite another problem. :p

DR
 
The gunman, Charles Carl Roberts IV, drove a commercial milk truck, said Miller. He was not Amish, was not previously wanted by authorities and had no known criminal history.
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Well, sometimes its not all that easy to tell who is the "nutter", and harder still, who will become a "nutter" when we sell him a gun.

IXP
 
IXP said:
Well, sometimes its not all that easy to tell who is the "nutter", and harder still, who will become a "nutter" when we sell him a gun.
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... or the killer (drunk driver) on the road, when issued a license.
 
The Pensylvania police chief told on CNN that 2 children where critical and on life support. I'm glad they are on life support, because they might live. But I thought the Amish don't allow for modern technic and hospitals? Or am I wrong?

Anyway, a horrible story. If the perpetrator had issues, he should have kept them to himself, and just commit suicide, instead of executing young and innocent children :mad:
 
Bell said:
The Pensylvania police chief told on CNN that 2 children where critical and on life support. I'm glad they are on life support, because they might live. But I thought the Amish don't allow for modern technic and hospitals? Or am I wrong?
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From what I have been told by friends who have visited Amish country, the Amish problem with technology is all about owning things. They have little problem using them. I was told it was not uncommon for an Amish to go to a non-Amish's house for the express purpose of watching their favourite TV show.

As to how accurate this is... hey, it's a third-hand anecdote. You've been warned.
 
Bell said:
The Pensylvania police chief told on CNN that 2 children where critical and on life support. I'm glad they are on life support, because they might live. But I thought the Amish don't allow for modern technic and hospitals? Or am I wrong?

Anyway, a horrible story. If the perpetrator had issues, he should have kept them to himself, and just commit suicide, instead of executing young and innocent children :mad:
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But he had a gun. Better options. That's what America's about, isn't it?
 
He returned the call on his cell phone, told her he wouldn't be coming home and "that he was acting out to achieve revenge for something that happened 20 years ago."
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I wonder what the "something" was? Some girl dump him when he was 12?

On the other hand, it may not be anything, since...

The notes were "rambling" and "didn't make much sense," Miller said.
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CFLarsen said:
But he had a gun. Better options. That's what America's about, isn't it?
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I don't think America is at the issue here. Guns are illegal here in the Netherlands, but many (young) people got them (but don't ask me for n umbers though :blush: )

Also, if it wasn't a gun, it could be a knive, or chainsaw. It's the person that pulls the trigger who kills, not the bullit.
 
CFLarsen said:
But he had a gun. Better options. That's what America's about, isn't it?
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Just thinnin' the herd, Claus. :p

Ever work in the fields? Evern seen a grown man naked?

(Oh, wait, wrong line from wrong movie!) :p DOH!

DR
 
Bell said:
The Pensylvania police chief told on CNN that 2 children where critical and on life support. I'm glad they are on life support, because they might live. But I thought the Amish don't allow for modern technic and hospitals? Or am I wrong?
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Three of the patients came to my institution. I took care of one of them in the trauma bay. She is unlikely to make it, but I can only hope I am wrong...

And, we treat Amish patients all the time, notably the traumas. And, they pay every single cent they are billed without argument. And, they never sue (i.e., they are the most grateful, pleasant peaceful, kind, understanding, not-trying-to-push-my-beliefs-on-you people you will ever meet.)

I'm absolutely devastated right now. I just got home and am still in a fog. No one should ever have to see an innocent six-year-old who never did anything to anyone with a gunshot in her head and her gray-matter sticking out.

-Dr. Imago

(Yes, this is the Ed's honest truth.)
 
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Dr. Imago said:
Three of the patients came to my institution. I took care of one of them in the trauma bay. She is unlikely to make it, but I can only hope I am wrong
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Bless you for doing what you can for her. *salutes*

DR
 
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Oh my :(

How sad, I hope all three of them pull trough. All the best to them and their families. And to your and your medical team, Dr. Imago, for dealing with this trauma.
 
Dr. Imago said:
And, we treat Amish patients all the time, notably the traumas. And, they pay every single cent they are billed without argument.
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How can they afford to, without insurance?

Mrs. BPSCG and I visited Lancaster over Labor Day weekend. Really a lovely part of the country. Hard to imagine something like this happening there.
 
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