|
|
|
October 02, 2006
Yet another school shooting by a psychotic adult
Another school shooting -- this one at an Amish school in Pennsylvania. The earlier report didn't identify the shooter, but this one does. Apparently he singled out girls, tied them up and killed them: The shooter, identified as Charles Roberts IV, 32, sent the male students and some adult females out of the school, bound the young female students and shot them execution style near the blackboard, Comm. Jeffrey Miller said.More on his identity here: Among those who are dead are the shooter identified as Charles Carl Roberts who turned the gun on himself after igniting the shooting spree.No idea whether Roberts is Amish. It wouldn't much matter, except that the way the headlines talk about "Amish school shooting," some people might take that to mean an Amish shooter was involved. I tend to doubt the shooter was Amish, because traditional Amish don't drive trucks, and they're extremely law abiding people. But anyone can go crazy. Here's more. Apparently, the shooter bore some sort of grudge: Police said he told his wife that he was acting out for revenge for something that happened 20 years ago. Investigators are trying to figure out what that incident is.I'd say he has to be a psycho. The children weren't born 20 years ago. UPDATE: The shooter was not Amish [something I did not see in any earlier report]: Roberts was a 32-year-old milk tanker truck driver from Bart, Pennsylvania.It's an awful, awful crime, and I hope the man rots in hell. But he's the guy who did it. Not someone who mistreated him 20 years ago. Not the permissive culture. Not Charlton Heston. Not goth or punk music. Not even the major news media for reporting these stories. (I refuse to subscribe to blame-the-village thinking.) posted by Eric on 10.02.06 at 02:34 PM
TrackBack
TrackBack URL for this entry: http://classicalvalues.com/cgi-bin/pings.cgi/4075 Listed below are links to weblogs that reference Yet another school shooting by a psychotic adult:
» Living With Mutants from Alphecca
What do they say, bad news comes in three's? Three school shootings in the space of a week. Add in the one in Canada a couple weeks ago and it's enough to depress anyone about the state of the human... [Read More] Tracked on October 3, 2006 04:58 AM
» Living With Mutants from Alphecca
What do they say, bad news comes in three's? Three school shootings in the space of a week. Add in the one in Canada a couple weeks ago and it's enough to depress anyone about the state of the human... [Read More] Tracked on October 3, 2006 05:03 AM
» Living With Mutants from Alphecca
What do they say, bad news comes in three's? Three school shootings in the space of a week. Add in the one in Canada a couple weeks ago and it's enough to depress almost anybody about the state of the... [Read More] Tracked on October 3, 2006 05:05 AM
Comments
Don't see why that is true. It would be surprising, even astonishing, but not outside the realm of human possibility. Gerard Vanderleun · October 2, 2006 08:01 PM As a matter of fact, I first heard about the story as an Amish shooting, which was what interested me, as that didn't sound likely. But it is certainly possible; unlikely as it sounds there actually was an Amish drug-dealing scandal a few years back. MORE: It's even mentioned here: Eric Scheie · October 2, 2006 08:51 PM Clearly, what is needed is a law forbidding weapons near schools. Then, this kind of thing wouldn't happen anymore! ...What? We already have that law? Then, what is clearly needed is a doubling of the radius of this weapons-free zone! Jon Thompson · October 3, 2006 02:05 AM Charitable organizations that serve abused Download free ringtone women are in desperate need of old cellular phones. http://phareros.schoolreference.com/ manp · October 18, 2006 02:23 PM |
|
December 2006
WORLD-WIDE CALENDAR
Search the Site
E-mail
Classics To Go
Archives
December 2006
November 2006 October 2006 September 2006 August 2006 July 2006 June 2006 May 2006 April 2006 March 2006 February 2006 January 2006 December 2005 November 2005 October 2005 September 2005 August 2005 July 2005 June 2005 May 2005 April 2005 March 2005 February 2005 January 2005 December 2004 November 2004 October 2004 September 2004 August 2004 July 2004 June 2004 May 2004 April 2004 March 2004 February 2004 January 2004 December 2003 November 2003 October 2003 September 2003 August 2003 July 2003 June 2003 May 2003 May 2002 See more archives here Old (Blogspot) archives
Recent Entries
• Holiday Blogging
• The right to be irrational? • I'm cool with the passion fashion • Climate change meltdown at the polls? • If you're wrong, then so is God? • Have a nice day, asshole! • Scarlet "R"? • Consuming power while empowering consumption • Shrinking is growth! • My dirty thoughts
Links
Site Credits
|
|
You'd have to be retarded to assume the shooter was amish.