Why was there no similar outrage for the Amish school mass murder in 2006? [View all]
People and pundits are all talking about how this murder, being of multiple children in a place that should be safe, is so different from everything that has come before, that it changes priorities, etc.
People act as if this hasn't happened before, and recently.
The Amish school incident was very similar to this one, and in a way worse. He went into the school, let the boys out, and kept the girls for the purpose of murdering them. There were heroics among the girls, believe it or not. One older girl did something to protect her younger sister, knowing she would be killed. She was. All those little girls stood against the wall in that small schoolroom, with the doors nailed shut by the shooter, staring at the barrel of his gun(s), knowing he was going to shoot them. It wasn't that quick. He shot each one, one by one, multiple times. Every area of the room was splattered with blood.
One child survived, after being shot in the head. She is wheelchair bound, paralyzed, and cannot speak or function normally. I think another survived and functions more or less normally.
The shooter then shot himself, as is typical of these guys.
This guy had planned this out for a month or more, it was determined.
It was a horror of an incident. So why? Why is that incident not something to be outraged over, but Sandy Hook is? Not to take away from the horror of Sandy Hook, but I don't see any reason people would distinguish between the children in 2006 and the children in 2012.
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