Monday, October 2, 2006

What is going on?

A clearly crazy 32-year-old man shot up a one-room Amish schoolhouse today. He killed six little girls before turning a gun on himself. He also seriously injured a few others. He allowed the boys to leave the room, keeping only girls behind. He tied their feet and killed them "execution style." Apparently he did this as some sort of twisted revenge for something that happened to him when he was 12. He left behind a wife and kids.

And this was the third school shooting in the past week.

What is going on?

Meanwhile, Rep. Foley has resigned and checked himself into rehab after his inappropriate emails/IMs to teenage pages got out. This from a guy who was wanting to crack down on internet predators and online kiddie porn.

Nice.

And the latest update on the Amish school: a fourth girl has died.

Though these two stories are completely unrelated to one another, I've become slightly obsessed with them both. They are somehow linked in my mind. As examples of a world gone a little mad, perhaps.

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