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Dear Analog.
Greetings - I have enjoyed reading your stuff in many threads, but I must (as a newbie does) respond to your latest on this one.
1. No, none of the families who lost their daughters will be reading or posting on this forum, but with every stinkin' school shooting where kids are killed, we all lose, because we're losing our future. When you think about it, if this was a one-room school house, and almost all the girls in school that day were shot - many of them are dead - it means that for this group of Amish families, a whole generation of future wives and mothers is dead, never to be resurrected. And for their community, this could be devastating.
2. The horror would be the same if it had been little boys killed, for sure. But you are equating the death of adults and that of children? Yes, both are heinous, but at least adults have the ability to fight back, and have lived a bit of their lives. Children are helpless, and because they are, they must be protected. Plus, there is something in every society that propels them to protect their young - it is so in humans, and it is so in animals, as well.
3. I'm sorry - I thought this was about discussing the event itself, not about the media's coverage of it. Hey, CNN, FOX and MSNBC will cover anything that is newsworthy, and this is indeed, newsworthy. When the killing of school children isn't newsworthy then the US will have become a truly heartless nation.
Shootings like this are horrible. It causes us to ask if we are really worthy of being called "human beings". But to see it unfold with children as the victims, it makes that answer so much harder.
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(none yet, still thinkin')
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