The Anabaptist community is shaken today by the
shooting death of three female students at an Amish school in Lancaster, Pennsylvania.
A CPT friend in the Philipines sent this email to our internal listserve:
Dear friends at CPT,
Your Filipino friends in the Philippines are extending their condolence in the senseless death of several children in an Amish school in PA. The culture of violence in the U.S. and the world are creating these averrations to target the few remaining pockets of peaceful resistance and hope in an otherwise violent society. Perhaps in the next few days we will have a clearer picture in what happend in PA. Note that the latest incident in the Amish school house is a continuation of a series of random , senseless killings directed against children and girls who are the most helpless in world today. And why choose an Amish school, a community well known for their pacifism. Let us all work for a culture of non-violence in the world.
I'm not sure why, but this incident is really affecting me. Perhaps especially because of the blurb at the end of the article that reads
On Wednesday, a 53-year-old man entered a high school in Bailey, Colorado, where he held several female students hostage at gunpoint. He shot one girl before killing himself seconds after a SWAT team stormed the classroom.
A high school student near Madison, Wisconsin, is suspected of fatally gunning down his principal on Friday, after he complained about being bullied and was disciplined for carrying tobacco.![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif){kind=small}
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