Please pray for our community

MessickFarmEqu · Oct 2, 2006

Take a look at cnn.com - front page. About 20 minutes away from us was a school shooting today. A gunmen entered a 1 room Amish school house, took hostages, and ended up shooting several of them before killing himself. All the kids where in 1st-8th grade. Please pray for our community. The Amish here are very close. The death of these children will be felt by hundreds of families.

scott_vt · Oct 2, 2006

Hello Neil,
Yes, I saw this on the news, what a terrible tragedy ! My prayers go out to all those affected families ! An unbelievably sad story.

texbaylea · Oct 2, 2006

I had not seen this but we don't watch much TV. It is so sad that these things keep happening when it is a solvable problem. Schools are the only place where guns are completely banned by federal law. If that was repealed and school districts would let those staff members who wish to carry concealed firearms do so, these people would soon stop if they knew that they would be stopped before they were able to inflict much damage.

I pray for these people but it is sad that this will continue until this nation undertakes a sensible approach to gun safety. Inspite of the 10s of thousand gun laws on the books one more will solve nothing. The perpatrators are not sane to start with and this way they get their 15 minutes of fame.

Vernon

MessickFarmEqu · Oct 2, 2006

I just found out that one of our parts delivery trucks drove by the place just a few minutes after the police got there. He said just two weeks ago he stopped at the school while the kids where outside, gave them some candy and talked with the teacher for awhile. Its crazy. You never expect this kinda stuff to happen so close to home.

gsganzer · Oct 2, 2006

texbaylea said:
I had not seen this but we don't watch much TV. It is so sad that these things keep happening when it is a solvable problem. Schools are the only place where guns are completely banned by federal law. If that was repealed and school districts would let those staff members who wish to carry concealed firearms do so, these people would soon stop if they knew that they would be stopped before they were able to inflict much damage.

I pray for these people but it is sad that this will continue until this nation undertakes a sensible approach to gun safety. Inspite of the 10s of thousand gun laws on the books one more will solve nothing. The perpatrators are not sane to start with and this way they get their 15 minutes of fame.

Vernon

Vernon,
In all due respect and I'm sure you share my sadness: I'm a life member of the NRA , a devoted supporter of our second ammendment rights, and am shocked at the attacks on our constitutional rights. However, I'm saddened that some believe our society has degenerated to the point that our teachers must be armed. There has to be some other answer to our problems.

I pray for the Amish community and all those affected by this tragedy.

roxynoodle · Oct 2, 2006

I am a teacher, and to be honest with, I don't want to be armed. I have nothing against gun ownership or hunting, I just personally don't want to handle a gun. We have had a police officer on our campus for a number of years now, at least since Columbine. My prayers go out to the families and your community. I wish I knew what to say.

randy41 · Oct 2, 2006

texbaylea said:
I had not seen this but we don't watch much TV. It is so sad that these things keep happening when it is a solvable problem. Schools are the only place where guns are completely banned by federal law. If that was repealed and school districts would let those staff members who wish to carry concealed firearms do so, these people would soon stop if they knew that they would be stopped before they were able to inflict much damage.

I pray for these people but it is sad that this will continue until this nation undertakes a sensible approach to gun safety. Inspite of the 10s of thousand gun laws on the books one more will solve nothing. The perpatrators are not sane to start with and this way they get their 15 minutes of fame.

Vernon

this continuous news of school shootings is terrible. anyone ever think of locking the school doors?
as far as arming school staff, i think its a stupid idea. when you hear of teachers molesting and sexually using underage students you get to doubt their ability to make wise decisions. i dont want a gun in the hand of a pedaphile.

texbaylea · Oct 2, 2006

gsganzer
I, too, am a life member of the NRA and a life member of the Texas State Rifle Association. I wish that there was another way to solve this problem but I haven't seen anyone propose it except another anti-gun law, which has not worked.

As long as we have a segment of our political life persisting - whoa: this might get too political. I will just say this: the presence of a firearm in the hands of a trained and responsible adult is not going to "contaminate" the students.

Vernon

MessickFarmEqu · Oct 2, 2006

I hate to see these conversations go straight towards guns. Its an old statement, but guns don't kill people - people kill people. If this wack job did not have a gun he would have found another way to accomplish what he wanted to do.

dmccarty · Oct 2, 2006

Messick,

I just popped into TBN to try to escape from the insanity the exists in so many people and saw your note. I'm so sorry to hear that this monster hit so close to one of our TBNers. The $%^&*() was married and had kids. How someone can hurt a bunch of kids.... He did this because of something that happened 20 years ago. Why those kids and families should have to be punished for something that happened 20 years ago that they had nothing to do with.

Many people don't believe in Evil. If this and the other incident Last week don't prove the existence of Evil I don't know what does. I have never been able to find a word that discribes such incidents.

Later,
Dan