Why are People Shooting the Amish?

[MarineHawk]

Any ideas?

[PARAGON]

Amish shooting sparks call for stricter tomato control laws


OHIO (Wired Press) - This past Monday in Mount Hope, Ohio, the vicious attack of an innocent motorist by flying tomatoes is causing local residents to rethink their long held belief that tomatoes are relatively harmless vegetables that are mostly used for self defense. The Ohio motorist barely escaped with his life after his car sustained repeated tomato bombardment from a terrorist-style ambush. The man described his attackers as "a radical militant Amish Sect", which has yet to claim responsibility for the attack. The man, though obviously overmatched, managed to hold off his attackers with a .45 caliber handgun and barely escape with his life.
There have been 7 tomato related deaths in the United States over the last 200 years and now two in the last 50 years - an alarming trend that has many people worried if this country is going to see the same tomato violence that has become an all too familiar sight in countries like Spain. The small Spanish town of Bunol has long been the sight of brutal guerilla-style tomato combat, in which thousands of wounded stagger through the streets, their shirts stained red with the violence.

Some Mount Hope residents think this incident should be a wake-up call to America. Local Amish elder Ezekial Jebediah thinks so. "I have been pushing for tomato reform for years. Kids can just go to the store and buy them. No background check, not ID required. As soon as they get them home they can convert them from semi to fully automatic in five minutes! The worst thing is that they aren't even vegetables, they are fruits. The lies!"

[PARAGON]

Gunman Dead After Opening Fire At Amish School

Multiple Deaths Reported At Pa. School

CBS News Interactive: School Shootings

(CBS) NICKEL MINES, Pa. A "number" of people were killed in a shooting at a one-room Amish schoolhouse Monday, state police said.

Police say the shooting happened around 11 a.m. at the Wolf Rock School on Mine and Rock Roads in Paradise, Pennsylvania.

"There are a number of people dead. ... The exact number I do not know yet," state police Cpl. Ralph Striebig said.

The person who fired the shots was among those killed, Striebig said.

At least 12 ambulances and four medical helicopters were dispatched to the scene, KYW-TV, the CBS affiliate in Philadelphia, reported.

Authorities say several victims were taken to area hospitals. The ages, conditions and exact number of victims were not immediately available.

About three dozen Amish people were seen standing behind a police line, and at least two ambulances had left the scene. Television news helicopters also showed a person being taken away on a stretcher to a waiting medical helicopter.

A spokesperson from Lancaster General Hospital said they received three patients and have requested all available personnel to report to duty.

Officials at the Penn State Milton S. Hershey Medical Center confirmed that victims were being admitted there. A spokeswoman said the hospital anticipated treating more than one patient, but did not know how many.

A web site states the Wolf Rock School, in the village of Nickel Mines, has a total student body of 27 and is classified as a coed religious school of Amish Association.

[PARAGON]

Report: 2 Las Vegas Schools In Lockdown

CBS News Interactive: School Shootings

(AP) LAS VEGAS Two schools were locked down Monday while police searched for a teenager who had been spotted on a high school campus with a gun, authorities said.

No students were hurt, and police said there was no initial indication that the teenager, who they said was not a student, had threatened anyone with the weapon, said Sean Walker, a North Las Vegas police spokesman.

The teen ran from the school after being confronted by campus police as students were arriving at Mojave High School, Walker said.

A handgun was found behind a nearby church, and both the high school and nearby Elizondo Elementary School were locked down while police searched the surrounding neighborhoods for the teen, Walker said.

School districts across the country have been especially sensitive to threats after deadly shootings last week at schools in Wisconsin and Colorado.

On Friday, a school principal was gunned down in Cazenovia, Wis., and a 15-year-old student, described as upset over a reprimand, was charged with murder. Just two days earlier, an adult gunman held six girls hostage in a school at Bailey, Colo., before killing a 16-year-old girl and then himself.

On Sept. 21, three high school seniors in Green Bay, Wis., were charged with conspiracy to commit homicide for allegedly planning to attack a school with guns and bombs.

[KenP]

I don't get it. The Amish don't mess with anyone.

http://www.elcovaforums.com/forums/s...ad.php?t=20978

[KenP]

Wanted revenge from 20yrs ago and wanted to attack young females. WTF????

[h2co-pilot]

Sumbody prolly touched his bunghole or something.


What a terrible thing. Poor kids. 3 dead at the scene and the gunman was dead there also. 7 in the hospital with critical wounds. He separated the girls from the boys, let the boys and older women go.

[DennisAJC]

What is the hiring criteria for Postmen and Milkmen?

[BlueHUMMERH2]

Pretty much happened right down the road from here (20 mins). Sick minded individual for certain.

[PARAGON]

speaking of

[KenP]

Originally Posted by BlueHUMMERH2

Pretty much happened right down the road from here (20 mins). Sick minded individual for certain.

You don't hang out with partsguy, do you?

[BlueHUMMERH2]

Originally Posted by KenP

You don't hang out with partsguy, do you?

Sadly, I have not hung out with partsguy. Perhaps we should meet up sometime. I'm going to Paragon this weekend I think.


Andy C has tried to meet up numerous times, but usually leaves messages on here at 2pm that he's already at the DTL in Lebanon....

[PARAGON]

Originally Posted by BlueHUMMERH2

Sadly, I have not hung out with partsguy.

So sad..... so very, very sad.

[Agriv8r]

back to the subject, is it safe to send your kids to school anymore?

[h2co-pilot]

Originally Posted by Agriv8r

back to the subject, is it safe to send your kids to school anymore?

Another reason why I homeschool.

I have constantly worried about schools being an open target for such heinous acts. The children should be first and foremost on our security list (Same w/ the borders). I would rather see them beefed up than the transportation systems or anything of the like. They are our nations future and weakness on our hearts.

[GLBLWARMR]

It is getting bad in schools these days. The best thing I can tell my sons is to go and have fun try to be cool with everyone. Try not to piss in anyone's cornflakes. This way if someone does decide to go ballistic at the school hopefully you won't be on the HIT list. Now with people just randomly picking schools to shoot up now I have to figure out to combat this one.

[BlueHUMMERH2]

It's not really safe to do anything anymore. I just try to be alert, pay attention to what's going on around me, and know where the exits are... What else can you really do? I try not sit next to trash cans, always have my back against the wall watching the entrance, etc. Gotta be proactive.

[Mrs.ssippi]

I think he was raped as a kid, maybe by the Amish or something. You know everyone is at risk these days. Gays, Kids, you name it they are on someones hit list. I think I might wrap my kids in that special tape that Dennis is selling. To protect them. Or I might just put it over their mouths.

[f5fstop]

Originally Posted by BlueHUMMERH2

It's not really safe to do anything anymore. I just try to be alert, pay attention to what's going on around me, and know where the exits are... What else can you really do? I try not sit next to trash cans, always have my back against the wall watching the entrance, etc. Gotta be proactive.

Sound like me. Always walk alert with your headup, never carry anything with the right arm, unless necessary, always face the door, keep your eye on the rearview mirror while driving, and keep one in the chamber at all times.

[PARAGON]

Originally Posted by BlueHUMMERH2

I try not sit next to trash cans, always have my back against the wall watching the entrance, etc. Gotta be proactive.

ummm......... okay, that one is just waaay too easy.