Less Amish

[billbuckhead]

Less Amish

The murder of five Amish schoolgirls one year ago taught the nation that no one is safe.
By Jonathan Zimmerman
October 2, 2007
Today, many of us will pause to remember the five Amish girls who were murdered a year ago at a one-room schoolhouse in Nickel Mines, Pa. Television crews will return to the community and dutifully record Amish children walking to their new one-room school, which looks a lot like the one torn down days after the attack.

But the new building has a steel door that locks from the inside. And that makes all the difference.

School shootings are etched onto our collective psyche, each name signifying another moment of unspeakable horror. Littleton, Colo. Jonesboro, Ark. Springfield, Ore. And most recently, of course, Virginia Tech.

But Nickel Mines was different because of its victims. For nearly a century, the Amish have symbolized simple rural living and the security that came with it. When Charles Carl Roberts took those Amish girls' lives, he took away this feeling. The new Amish school represents our effort to reclaim it, to return to an era before such mass murder. But the steel door reminds us that we can't.
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America's weak gun laws are nothing less than terrorism.

[derby378]

1. Yes, America, be afraid...be very afraid...

No matter where you live, you are not safe as long as the Second Amendment remains law.

Way to spin this, Bill. Those Amish families deserve better treatment than to be made props.

[billbuckhead]

2. We all deserve better treatment than to be targets of greedy gun pushers

Damn all the gun pushers to hell.

[silverojo]

3. "Gun pushers"?

Well, there's a new hysterical term for ya.

Doesn't it occur to you that this guy could very well have built a BOMB from common household items found in the house and garage, and killed a lot more people?

Killers will kill. Guns at least limit them to one victim at a time.

[billbuckhead]

5. No cause it's way more easy and effective to use a gun, in fact perp brought several

Hell, guns are the 2nd, 3rd, 4th choices of most really bad guys since they usually bring several guns to their killing zones

[Hoof Hearted]

4. Yeah, & that police chief of Philadelphia talking today about the hyper-availability of guns

as one of the biggest problems in the country - I'm sure he was just using those two dead armored car employees as props too.

Jeebus.