# Just In: Amish school shooting

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-in-amish-school-shooting/374995>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [October 2, 2006, 4:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-in-amish-school-shooting/374995 "2006-10-02T16:44:20Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![Wile\_E](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c37758/32.png) [@Wile\_E](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wile_E)\
**Post date:** [October 3, 2006, 4:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-in-amish-school-shooting/374995/41 "2006-10-03T16:53:10Z")

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[QUOTE=teela brown]  
CNN says now that in his call to his wife, [he says he molested minors 20 years ago](http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/10/03/amish.shooting/index.html), and gave this as his reason for his actions. I don’t get it. Where’s the revenge?  
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I just commented on this in the pit thread so I could use bad words. Supposedly he still had a desire to molest young girls. I suppose he reasoned that it was their fault for enticing him? I think this guy just wanted to kill and he was so messed up that he searched for any excuse he could think of to justify it in his head. He was also angry at god for the death of a premature daughter so apparently that makes it okay for him to take away other people’s children? What’s scary is that people can be this messed up in the head and no one ever notices anything before they snap?  
If anyone else has these thoughts just take yourself out and go argue with god about it and leave the rest of humanity alone.

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**Author:** ![Beware\_of\_Doug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/278dde/32.png) [@Beware\_of\_Doug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beware_of_Doug)\
**Post date:** [October 3, 2006, 7:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-in-amish-school-shooting/374995/42 "2006-10-03T19:40:10Z")

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[QUOTE=Wile E]  
What’s scary is that people can be this messed up in the head and no one ever notices anything before they snap?  
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Stuff like this represents the suck-it-up ethic of our culture taken to its absolute logical conclusion.

If this creep had believed in psychological help, or gotten the right kind, this might very well not have happened. Instead, he took his own guilt and misery and constructed a kind of unholy shrine to it…then enacted the sacrifice.

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**Author:** ![spingears](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ebca7d/32.png) [@spingears](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/spingears)\
**Post date:** [October 4, 2006, 1:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-in-amish-school-shooting/374995/43 "2006-10-04T13:08:53Z")

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[QUOTE=Enola Straight]  
Just saw the news: someone opened fire upon 27 Amish students in Lancaster county, PA. All 27 are dead. Conflicting reports of the shooter being in custody, or he turned the gun on himself. ☹  
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First reports are usually inadequate for any thing other than to say **something** has happened.

Jumping to unwarranted conclusions is poor exercise!

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