Truck driver kills three girls in Amish school shooting
Another shooting occurred this week. This one occurred near Paradise, Pennsylvania. It is the most uncommon place a person could think of because the shooting happened in a one room Amish schoolhouse. A 32-year-old truck driver, Charles Carl Roberts IV, had three guns, a stun gun, two knives, and a bag holding 600 rounds of ammunition. Peculiarly the man also brought toilet paper along, making the police think that he was planning on staying for a while. This man meant business.This attack is the nation's third deadly school shooting in a week. The police only came up with the only suggestion that the man went to the school is that he wanted to attack young female victims. Roberts binded and shot three girls then killed himself. The shooting actually took place in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, about 60 miles west of Philadelphia. There were 26 students in the Amish school on Monday when the shooting occurred and 11 of them were girls. The school's age group ranges from 6-13 years old.
As of right now, two students and one aide were pronounced dead at the scene, one girl died while the police were waiting for an ambulance, and several other girls were taken to hospitals some of which had gunshot wounds to the head, they are listed in critical care. The gunman, Roberts is not Amish but lives in the area, before he killed himself his wife was able to contact him via cell phone and this is what he said,"he wouldn't be coming home and "that he was acting out to achieve revenge for something that happened 20 years ago."
posted by Anonymous @ 10/02/2006 08:00:00 PM
1 Comments:
3 shootings in a week is far too many to be occuring in a set time. Even 1 school shooting a year is pushing it. While i do agree that the media is more liberal than it has been in the past, and that bullying is a major underlying cause, what probably pushs these people over the edge into performing these crimes is peer reinforcement. No, not in the sense that their friends (if he or she have some) are telling them to "go for it," but rather in the mentality of "that one guy could do it, so i can too." The system has been analyzed, and the cracks identified. A way I think that could help would be to throw out the old system of lock-downs and develop a newer method. We've done this before; in the '80s, the "duck and cover" from the '50s was phased out. Granted, that was more for mental solitude than for actual safety, but so is the lock-down somewhat; it's better than nothing, but not 100% effective.
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