Pennsylvania School Shooting :(

[momoffuzzyfaces]

You have got to be kidding me.....those people are actually going to protest the funerals of children?? As if that community doesn't have enough to deal with already How sad.

Yes, they are already there. When I see them all lined up and grinning like they are I want to slap some sense into them.

If they want to protest the war, they should go picket the White House and stop the nonsence at funerals. The Amish don't believe in war at all and don't even serve in the miliary!!!

The fact that these nut jobs seem to think innocent people are getting what they deserve because the government is at war is really frightening to me. I can't help wonder if they would be protesting at the funeral if it was one of their loved ones!!!

[davidpizzica]

The entire community will need counseling if what I heard on the news is true and I'm sure it is.

There is a group of "war protesters" from Kansas who make it their sole purpose in life to protest funerals. They usually just protest military funerals so I was surprised to see them already in PA protesting where these innocent children were butchered.

They aren't protesting that the children were killed, they seem to think it's just punishment for the US being in the IRAQ war??? They are supposidly a "Baptist" group of some sort. I know of no Baptist church that will claim them myself!!! They are a bunch of nuts in my opinion.

When they protested recently at one of the funerals of one of the military men killed in Iraq at one of our nearby towns; the towns people ringed the area with American flags so the family of the soldier couldn't see them.

I'm not a violent person but these people make me sick. They are a disgrace to Christians every where (how they can even claim to be Christians is beyond me) and I'm ashamed they are from my state!!!

I guess some people will use any excuse to show thier ignorance!!!

Connie, the only reason these "chistians" (nothing Christian about them!) are at the funerals of these poor girls is to protest comments made by the Pennsylvania governor critizing them. They don't care at all about the sensless tragedy in this community. To me, they're lower than dirt.

[JenBKR]

Connie, the only reason these "chistians" (nothing Christian about them!) are at the funerals of these poor girls is to protest comments made by the Pennsylvania governor critizing them. They don't care at all about the sensless tragedy in this community. To me, they're lower than dirt.

What comments? I think I missed that part...

[momoffuzzyfaces]

Connie, the only reason these "chistians" (nothing Christian about them!) are at the funerals of these poor girls is to protest comments made by the Pennsylvania governor critizing them. They don't care at all about the sensless tragedy in this community. To me, they're lower than dirt.

I couldn't agree with you more!
I wondered why they were there since it wasn't a funeral of a military member.

To tell grieving people that God hates them and they are getting what they deserve because of what the country does is just stupid!!!!!!!!

Too bad we can't ban protests at funerals!!! (we've tried in Kansas)

[davidpizzica]

What comments? I think I missed that part...

Jen, I'm not sure what the comments were either, but this what I heard on KDKA noon news today.

[sandragonfly]

40 shootings total since 1996.

there was even a shooting at crayola's (most awesome) park not a while ago too.. I have no words.

[Dorothy39]

Horrifying!
Why didn't the ******* just kill himself!?!

My thoughts exactly!!!

I don't dare to read any more details about this story, Good Lord, I had nightmares back in the seventies , when I heard about the "Jamestown Massacre!!!"

[smokey the elder]

One thing that I thought was amazing, given their dislike of being photographed (it's actually supposed to be taboo) that there was a gentleman being interviewed. I think they figure if they give "the English" (outsiders) a little of what they want, they'll go away.

[Pam]

One thing that I found interesting and a little sad today was something mentioned on Good Morning America. Since they don't believe in having their pictures taken these parents will have no photographs of their loved ones to remember them by. I mentioned this at work today and my co-worker said that was OK because she can always remember what her loved ones, who have passed on, look like. Call me morbid, but I occasionally pull out an old photo of my dad and it takes me back to when he was here. Chris Cuomo on GMA said the Amish will sometimes save articles of clothing or locks of hair to remember loved ones.

[momoffuzzyfaces]

Just in from CNN Headline News: The weird Kansas group has agreed to NOT picket at the funerals in exchange for air time on a local radio station. They didn't say if it was a local PA station or a local KS station but at any rate they can be turned off and since the Amish don't have radios anyway, the grieving families won't be hurt by the group!

Thank GOD!!!

[davidpizzica]

Just in from CNN Headline News: The weird Kansas group has agreed to NOT picket at the funerals in exchange for air time on a local radio station. They didn't say if it was a local PA station or a local KS station but at any rate they can be turned off and since the Amish don't have radios anyway, the grieving families won't be hurt by the group!

Thank GOD!!!

Oh, Connie, I'm so glad to hear that. That is the last thing that grieving community needs.My thoughts and prayers go out to those families who lost their loving children in this tragedy.

[sparks19]

LOL so because we own guns my husband is going to kill me? LOL I don't think so. As for children, Our children will be TAUGHT how to use a gun, what a gun IS and how to properly respect a gun. they will be taught to hunt, they will be taught what a gun can do and they will be taught EVERYTHING on gun safety and they will never EVER use it as a toy. this will be taught to them and imprinted in them from the day they are born. So because of some statistics it means that because we have guns that someone in my house is going to be killed? Like you said, you can use statistics to prove anything.

All I know is my husband will never EVER turn a gun on me or anyone in our house. I would never do it either. Our children will be taught from day one (which makes a BIG difference) about guns and what they are to be used for.

In my opinion, if you cannot USE a gun efficiently then you have no business owning one. A gun is a DEADLY weapon and should NOT be used unless you intend on using it to FATALLY wound someone. Just injuring someone with your gun can be far more dangerous for you.

You may be sick of the argument "people kill people" but that doesn't make it any less true. Like I said, lots of places have banned guns and now all the deaths and violence that took place with guns are NOW taking place with knives. Shall we just all have our hands cut off so that we can't use any tool that could possibly injure someone? That argument is ridiculous. Punish the people that MURDER others, don't punish the inanimate object. That is just silly.

Blaming guns just gives murderers a scape goat and I for one am sick of that bullsh!t.

[cyber-sibes]

Veering back to the original topic, I'm been thinking about the girls who survived and how they will cope with everything they saw and experienced. Yes, they belong to a close-knit and very supportive community that will help them greatly. But, will that community know how to deal with the kind of psychological damage this trauma will have caused? I know next to nothing about the Amish, so I don't know - will they allow these children to see professional counselors or pschologists? Will they assume that their faith will heal them and they need no other help?

Good question, I don't know either, but I would imagine they will want to deal with it privately within their own community. I know I would be crazed beyond belief - how do you deal with the violent and senseless slaughter of your little girl? *shakes head*

I was also stunned that a group would protest in that way - their smiling faces holding up posters claiming this is God's justice made me want to puke. "God hates you" was one of them. I wonder how they deal with tragedy in their lives? Who or what do they turn to when nothing makes sense? They seem to think they have all the answers.
It's disgraceful that they even got coverage by the networks. Half the time I think if the news-casters weren't hyping up these & other bizzaros so much, alot of them would just fade into oblivion.