I was thinking of writing something entertaining and charming today

[windsea]

but all I can hear are the screams of little Amish girls

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[krasota]

It's really tearing me apart. I'm only a couple generations away from my Amish relatives. Those children know no violence. This is utterly alien to them. Public school children are generally at least cognizant of violence in the world, but Amish children at that age are pretty much still sheltered from it.

[mactavish]

Yeah.

I think I'm still stunned. My emotional reaction is stuck in my chest somewhere.

I keep wondering what happened to hurt the shooter so badly, and how sick he must have been, too.

[windsea]

And he had children of his own!!! He TOOK THEM TO THEIR BUS STOP and then went on to the Amish school.

So sick. So hurting. And such a brute.

[mactavish]

Yeah.

I also found myself wondering about his kids' genders, and his wife's reaction to the phone call.

So very, very many people were hurt by this (including us, and 10-year-old girls all over the world who will be afraid to go to school tomorrow because they heard about it), because he couldn't find any other way. It's frightening.

[going_not_gone]

There is such evil in the world.

Sometimes I wonder what the hell I was thinking, having children, when I cannot protect them, when there's so much horror out there. Today was one of those times.

[windsea]

Yes. You know that saying, that to have a child is to forever walk around with your heart outside your body ...

[blueberrymoon]

A horrific, sad, strange, brutal, calculated crime. And for what? Payback for something that happened to him when he was 12? I am so saddened.