Re the horrific tragedy at that Amish school yesterday where a crazed milkman shot those young schoolgirls and killed three of them, a woman said to me today and I have to agree that in such situations of peril where you have a roomful of people and only one gunman it is far better for everyone to rush him at the same time even though one or two of them may get hurt and lose their lives in the process but that's just it, we've become a nation of victims and we've seemed to accept it. The Amish are historically a pacifist people and this could have something to do with it but in the time it took for this 32 year old psycho to tie up those girls something could have been done. They say he had a 20 year old grudge which would mean he got angry at the tender age of 12. Good grief, people are growing up way too fast these days to have issues at 12 and carry them through life.
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Which is why I admire those brave souls on 9/11 who said we are going to die anyway and so let's try to overpower our hijackers - that was the plane that crashed in the field in Pennsylvania. If everyone took actions like this all the time perhaps at least half of these tragedies could be prevented.
ReplyDeleteIt is also important to emphasize that the majority of the mentally ill are not violent. The paper reported that towards the end the milkman was sulking at work and wouldn't respond to jokes and such but this should not be taken that the clinically depressed are prone to acts like this.
I liked the commentary on last night's CBS Evening News, the freeSpeech segment where a father of one of the students killed at Columbine said they don't teach moral values in the public schools anymore and the practice of abortion has diminished our respect for human life. For all the bashing Katie Couric has received over the years from conservatives she is to be applauded for letting such people have their say even if what they talk about isn't that popular.
I have been saying this for a long time that I think there is an overall culture of disrespect for life (not just abortion but euthanasia, the death penalty and the general feeling people have that poor people deserve their fate and so they don't deserve welfare all falls under this category of not respecting human life for me), and it wouldn't surprise me if this contributes to the more violent behavior that we see in our schools and communities.
ReplyDeleteAs for the chances that these young girls could have charged this gun-toting man, I would say that this would be highly improbable in such a community of Amish. First, they were young and second they aren't exposed to this way of thinking whatsoever. That man was very calculating in picking a school he knew he could do such a tragic thing.
I like your compassionate conservatism Beth but us pro-lifers aren't supposed to be consistent and oppose the death penalty and support the poor and labor unions, we're supposed to be ranking hypocrites (at least that's the picture the pro-aborts paint of us).
ReplyDeleteRe the Amish tragedy this lone gunman ordered the men and boys to leave the schoolhouse and that's when the males should have charged him. It is one of the prime functions or roles of the male to protect women from harm, I accept this basic fact of nature gladly and would do all I could to save a woman from danger. Pacifism is socially and morally irresponsible.
Well its all good to know that chivalry is not totally dead but don't you think the culture of disrespect for life has made society in general tend to look out for ones own interest ahead of the interest of their fellow man (or woman)? It's a problem that seems to be snowballing, at least to me.
ReplyDeleteI agree with you Beth and that's why I never liked to listen to radio personality Bob Grant after he started calling pro-lifers wackos for making these connections. He'd say things like Ted Bundy would have killed anyway regardless of Roe's status although Bundy did say weird porn influenced him so why not abortion too but with Grant you couldn't even broach the topic, he'd shoot you down. Oh well, he's yesterday's cold cup of coffee anyway.
ReplyDeleteThis should upset you all to no end (unless you’re a panty-waisted liberal) to read that a majority of democrats want President Bush to NOT succeed in what he does. Now, take that however you want, but when people say this they are also, de facto, saying that anything the president does should fail. Taken to its logical conclusion that’s mean they want us to lose the war on terror and the war in Iraq.
ReplyDeleteAs Ace so aptly puts it:
Are they going to still claim this is a “fringe” voice?
How many of them secretly wished the mass bombing of planes had actually worked, and killed up to 3000 people, just to avoid the “greater moral negative” of Bush seeming to be successful in thwarting terrorism?
Think that’s crazy? Well, look back at the quote above. There’s Kamiya admitting he’d hoped for greater American military casualties just to keep Bush from garnering too much political capital from the war.
As I’ve said: KNOW YOUR ENEMY!!!