I hate copycats
At approximately 10:30 this morning a horrible crime was committed. Three innocent children died at the hands of a man who, for no apparent reason other than watching a news story, snapped.
Ok, let’s look at this from another point of view. A seemingly normal man, a milk truck driver, a father of three children of his own, a person quoted as ‘average’ and ‘just normal’, allegedly watched a news story about another school shooting, let a childhood prank or picking from a little girl twenty years ago, drive him into a unspeakable train of thought. According to the current reports, this guy got off of work at 3 a.m., borrowed a friends pick-up, went to the local lumber yard for 2x4’s and 4x4’s, then drove to his friendly neighborhood one room Amish, one-room school house. He then allegedly used to wood to barricade the doors, took the first three little girls he found and bound them up and lined all the girls against the chalkboard.
After receiving at least one phone call from his wife on his cell phone concerning his notes he had left at home, "along the lines of suicide notes" that were "rambling" and "didn't make much sense", someone made a call to the local 911 center from the same cell phone. The police were advised of the number and tried to call just moments before he began to shoot the girls execution style.
What the hell? Why did this guy go off, and more importantly, why did he forget his family, only to fulfill a 20 year old, preteen vengeance towards girls? Why did the guy drop his kids off safely at the school bus stop, then methodically, premeditatedly kill other kids?
There is something to be said about the mindset of the locals, the average Americans living within the Amish communality. In our everyday, busy, fast paced, competitive, shallow lives, the Amish are a people who are seem disposable, a people who just get in the way of normal, daily life. I, admittedly, cannot totally disagree. That being said, these were just kids. Kids that, although have been brainwashed by people within their culture, not unlike how our government brainwashes the average, television watching, retired person. Yet, these kids have yet to do any harm, make their own choices, or even get a chance feel love with another outside their own family.
I’m lost for words other than this; I would have taken any of those lives in trade for my own. Kids, just kids, forgetting anything else, just kids!!!!!!!
It’s too bad this guy took his own life. I’d love to take it for him.
Ok, let’s look at this from another point of view. A seemingly normal man, a milk truck driver, a father of three children of his own, a person quoted as ‘average’ and ‘just normal’, allegedly watched a news story about another school shooting, let a childhood prank or picking from a little girl twenty years ago, drive him into a unspeakable train of thought. According to the current reports, this guy got off of work at 3 a.m., borrowed a friends pick-up, went to the local lumber yard for 2x4’s and 4x4’s, then drove to his friendly neighborhood one room Amish, one-room school house. He then allegedly used to wood to barricade the doors, took the first three little girls he found and bound them up and lined all the girls against the chalkboard.
After receiving at least one phone call from his wife on his cell phone concerning his notes he had left at home, "along the lines of suicide notes" that were "rambling" and "didn't make much sense", someone made a call to the local 911 center from the same cell phone. The police were advised of the number and tried to call just moments before he began to shoot the girls execution style.
What the hell? Why did this guy go off, and more importantly, why did he forget his family, only to fulfill a 20 year old, preteen vengeance towards girls? Why did the guy drop his kids off safely at the school bus stop, then methodically, premeditatedly kill other kids?
There is something to be said about the mindset of the locals, the average Americans living within the Amish communality. In our everyday, busy, fast paced, competitive, shallow lives, the Amish are a people who are seem disposable, a people who just get in the way of normal, daily life. I, admittedly, cannot totally disagree. That being said, these were just kids. Kids that, although have been brainwashed by people within their culture, not unlike how our government brainwashes the average, television watching, retired person. Yet, these kids have yet to do any harm, make their own choices, or even get a chance feel love with another outside their own family.
I’m lost for words other than this; I would have taken any of those lives in trade for my own. Kids, just kids, forgetting anything else, just kids!!!!!!!
It’s too bad this guy took his own life. I’d love to take it for him.
posted by mattandriver at 9:02 PM
4 Comments:
You know my love for these people. you also know i realize the validity of your views too. all that said, when you and i are both equally stung by this, you then realize the enormous amount of "just plain wrong" in this. it is never right to kill anyone, and the loss of children is only worse. but what happened today was our screwed up rotting modern world took a step back into an older era, and into an even higher level of innocense, and amongst a people who do not fight back for any reason.
this went beyond a school shooting. this man killed all that was good in our past, and i commend your senses for picking up on that outrage. i can only hope that people start waking up and realizing how much we have lost, and hopefully deciding they want to do something about it. i have hopes my friend, but they are not high.
god forgive us all, for we know not what we do.
The Amish were easy targets and easily taken advantage of. The media continues to take advantage of them every time they show pictures of them on the television. No one has respect for these people and their beliefs. The tourists think the Amish are some kind of gimmick for their enjoyment. See, if guns were illegal...
Hi Rev! How have you been!?!
carny: up to my arse in youtube. i have to schedule bathroom trips, but my man matt here hit on one of my pet projects and thank you for your comments on them. i have been around them extensively, even prepping a book on them, but not one single photo of the amish has ever been snapped by me. i am well beyond disgust on the matter, and my next trip down to see my amish friends will not be an easy one at all. this one shook me to the core.
I noticed that too. The videos and photos of these people. It seems especially awful to take their pics at a time of such horrible grief. Growing up around them I've never understood why people gawk at them.
I work with them some and have had my frustrations but never thought of them as "disposable." I didn't realize others think that. They're smarter and more aware of the goings on of the "English" than a lot of people realize.
I, too, cannot imagine why someone would want to kill children. Particularly the children of a people who are so strongly peaceful.
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