<p>This time, it’s at an Amish school in Lancaster County, Pa. I truly wish that all we had to concern ourselves with these days was whether or not we can bring cupcakes to school for our kids’ birthdays, or whether our kids think we are too strict. The news over the past month of so many shootings makes me so very sad (as well as angry), and I think I’m at the point now that I would vote for a politician who ran on a platform of it being illegal for ANYone, other than the police and army, to own a gun. </p>
<p>I’m mad, too. I equate it with suicide bombers because they are committing suicide and taking people with them. It is something I just don’t understand and I wish we had the money to post an armed guard in front of every school in the US! Leave our children alone.</p>
<p>I don’t think banning guns is the solution because, quite frankly, I want the option of being able to have that right to defend myself.</p>
<p>I just watched that video and I can hardly function. It is too tragic beyond words. </p>
<p>In so many of these incidents, where the attacker plans to commit suicide as well, I can never figure out why they just do not kill themselves and that is it. Why do they have a need on their way out to take down others too especially innocent children unrelated to their own issues whom they do not know? I realize nothing about it is logical or sane but there is a pattern in some of these incidents where the perpertrator plans to commit suicide but goes out in a flourish killing innocents along the way. This guy wrote notes that he “could not take it anymore” and while we all know suicide is not the answer, at least he could commit suicide and leave it at that!</p>
<p>My heart cannot fathom the horror for the families involved in this incident. The entire situation, not just the deaths is horrific. It is so cold blooded and so sickening, that even anyone who was a witness is forever harmed.</p>
<p>EDIT…Tookie, we cross posted but were thinking the same about the suicidal folks in these incidents who take people with them. </p>
<p>However, we disagree about gun control. But I don’t want to get into a debate about that.</p>