Another US school shooting

neocon · 2 Oct 2006 at 18:10

The latest craze in the US and Canada!

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/5400570.stm

Andr3w · 2 Oct 2006 at 18:11

More innocent lifes lost

turboshed · 2 Oct 2006 at 18:12

it seems like the school shootings are getting out of control now over there

Al Vallario · 2 Oct 2006 at 18:14

At least six dead according to the Associated Press.
http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/10/02/amish.shooting.ap/index.html

School shootings are nothing new, I'm afraid. It's just a number of them have come to light in the past few weeks

Memphis · 2 Oct 2006 at 18:21

turboshed said:
it seems like the school shootings are getting out of control now over there

Or are "we" just paying more attention to them?

Raikiri · 2 Oct 2006 at 18:22

Amish? I wonder how this one will be pinned on violent games/movies/music etc.

scorza · 2 Oct 2006 at 18:27

Raikiri said:
Amish? I wonder how this one will be pinned on violent games/movies/music etc.

We don't know if the shooter(s) were Amish or not yet.

cheets64 · 2 Oct 2006 at 18:33

Good old USA, the Right to bear arms and kill your fellow americans.

Shocking, think if we had the same laws for guns in the UK, how many shootings in schools in London would we see, we have a problem of gangland shootings in this country and thats with extreme gun laws.

fuz · 2 Oct 2006 at 18:41

From CNN:

LANCASTER COUNTY, Pennsylvania -- A lone gunman walked into a one-room Amish schoolhouse Monday and opened fire, killing six people, according to initial reports.

The gunman then shot and killed himself, police said.

The man ordered some students to leave before opening fire on the remaining students, said state police spokesman Jack Lewis.

Lewis told CNN that the gunman shot and killed at least three students and a county coroner told The Associated Press that at least 6 people had been killed in the shooting.

The part about ordering some of the kids out and shooting the rest is quite strange, if indeed it was some sort of motive.

YoungBlood · 2 Oct 2006 at 18:41

Just caught this on sky news, another sad day indeed

CChrisca · 2 Oct 2006 at 18:43

Yes, I'm just watching it on Sky too. One of the reporters mentioned that there is a lot of inter marriage in the Amish community and wondered what would be the outcome if it was one of their own doing the shooting and they had a mental problem cos of inter marriage.

scorza · 2 Oct 2006 at 19:39

CChrisca said:
Yes, I'm just watching it on Sky too. One of the reporters mentioned that there is a lot of inter marriage in the Amish community and wondered what would be the outcome if it was one of their own doing the shooting and they had a mental problem cos of inter marriage.

Nothing like a bit of prejudice :rolleyes:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/5400570.stm

Latest news is that it was a local truck driver with an American name, so not an Amish. The **** let all the boys go and executed the girls.

janesssssy · 2 Oct 2006 at 19:44

Police say the killer was a local truck driver named Charles Carl Roberts IV.

reminds me of incest tbh.

I think everyday "what is the world coming too"