How many prayers can I say to correct what has gone wrong?
How many prayers would it take to change this vicious course of events?
What actions can I take to fix these horrible things?
A grown man walks into a school and assaults the girl children there. He then kills one and then himself with a high powered gun.
Another grown man a thousand miles away goes into a schoolhouse and attacks a room full of girl children with a high powered gun. Five are dead today. Several others are in the hospital mortally wounded.
The doctors call it being in ‘critical condition’. They say the children who have been attacked by these adults are in ‘critical condition’. That’s the medical term.
What is the human term?
If you watch professional sports why take one minute of just one game to consider how you can change things. You can’t stop what happened already.
It’s worse than a fumble or a missed pitch.
If you own a gun - why not take one minute to think about what could do to change the course of this blood-red rage for senseless violence?
If you are in business why not take one minute of one coffee break to think of a way to stop this baggage from following and permeating our society?
Girl children.
Slaughtered by men.
] For all the noise and dust kicked up about terrorists and the enemy ‘out there’ look at what happened here in the United States. Spawned from home grown hatred and misguided choices and lives that exclude hope.
A Baptist clergyman from Kansas had this to say about the slaughter of the innocents in Pennsylvania, "Those Amish people, everyone is sitting around talking about those poor little girls — blah, blah, blah — they brought the wrath upon themselves.“ He said the Amish "don't serve God, they serve themselves."
Charles Carl Roberts IV killed these girls — Naomi Rose Ebersole, 7; Marian Fisher, 13; Mary Liz Miller, 8; and her sister Lena Miller, 7, Anna Mae Stoltzfus, 12.
Another 6 year old girl was taken off life support so that she could be taken home to die.
Dr. D. Holmes Morton who was working with the 6 year old said, "I just think at this point mostly these families want to be left alone in their grief and we ought to respect that."
Here is a man who worked with the Amish for years and still doesn’t see what is right in front of him.
The Amish don’t want to be left alone. They want you to join them in a life of peace and harmony.
The world is a harsh place as it is but the modern world is filled with things that do not need to be that cause needless sorrow and waste a lot of time.
The handguns that killed these children wasted a lot of time and have caused much sorrow.
An Amish neighbor comforted the Roberts family hours after the shooting and extended forgiveness to them.
What courage before Christ have you shown today that could even come close to matching the compassion and love that was shown here?
It went almost without notice.
Hidden in the howling mob-like news coverage.
The common human experience was nearly quenched in the riot of sound and images just as the lives of these girl children were snuffed out.
But the light shone out.
Do you see it?
What action will you take to make the world a better place? What will YOU do to make this country and God’s world a place where girl children are safe?
It’s up to you.
This happened to your neighbors. People you are bound to protect as an American and a person.

This truly is a tragedy and those girls and their families continue to be in my thoughts.

What am I doing to make this country safer? Well, for one I do not go into schools and shoot people and I would certainly call the authorities if a saw an armed person entering a school or any building for that matter. I don't speed through school zones, I brake for school buses and I am very careful when children are out playing. Unfortunately, I cannot be everywhere at once. We should be vigilant within reason and the administrators at schools should probably keep the doors locked no matter how small the school is or how peaceful the community seems to be.

Bad things happen to good people all the time and there never seems to be a shortage of bad individuals, all one can really do is watch out for themselves, their family and be prepared to help if or when a situation occurs.

Why did you waste our time writing?

:bombout: They are easy questions and you decided to make fun :
"What action will you take to make the world a better place? What will YOU do to make this country and God’s world a place where girl children are safe?"

I am not making fun! I realize that the ONLY person in the world over which I have complete control is myself.

Why don't you go start a thread about football or working out in a gym? We're busy here.:woohoo:

What is your problem? I simply said what I think I am doing to help keep the world safer. In fact, when the gunman entered that school he told the teachers and male students to leave and that is exactly what they did. They were there, in the room and did absolutely nothing to try to directly protect those girls.

What exactly are you doing to keep the world safer? If you are so high and mighty why don't you offer a few suggestions instead of attacking the one that was offered.

Why don't you go start a thread about football or working out in a gym? We're busy here.:woohoo:Who is 'we'? You and your multiple personalities?

Never mind cranston, Melissa. He's a fruit. :eek:

Who is 'we'? You and your multiple personalities? ROFL

Never mind cranston, Melissa. He's a fruit. :eek:
Thanks! :)

What about the boy children, cranston?
True, none died at this latest shooting, but more will elsewhere. You can count on it.

Why?
Who knows? It's gone on since the dawn of time.

However, I admire the faith of the Amish, and the compassion they've shown to the killer.
But, if they think the HE is sorry, they are sadly mistaken.

Never mind cranston, Melissa. He's a fruit.

I have to say one thing in cranston's defense here, sedan;

Melissa did seem to be making some sort of (what I can only assume was an attempt at) a joke with the insertion of the bizarre, nonsensical statement -- "Unfortunately, I cannot be everywhere at once".

WTF??

"Unfortunately, I cannot be everywhere at once"........???

I have to say one thing in cranston's defense here, sedan;

Melissa did seem to be making some sort of (what I can only assume was an attempt at) a joke with the insertion of the bizarre, nonsensical statement -- "Unfortunately, I cannot be everywhere at once".

WTF??

"Unfortunately, I cannot be everywhere at once"........???
Yeah, I can see how one could take it that way. What I meant was I live no where near the site where this incident occurred so it would have been impossible for me to have done anything directly to help prevent it or even minimize the death toll. Had it not been on the news, I wouldn't have even heard about it.

There is also a good chance it could have happened in my city and I wouldn't have known about it, if it weren't on the news as I don't spend much time near schools unless I happen to be driving by. Sorry for any confusion, I just feel that the best I can really do as a citizen is to be a good person and do something helpful if I am ever thrown into a tragic situation.

Girl children.
Slaughtered by men.
] For all the noise and dust kicked up about terrorists and the enemy ‘out there’ look at what happened here in the United States. Spawned from home grown hatred and misguided choices and lives that exclude hope..
Yes I believe your appraisal of what spawned it is correct.
A Baptist clergyman from Kansas had this to say about the slaughter of the innocents in Pennsylvania, "Those Amish people, everyone is sitting around talking about those poor little girls — blah, blah, blah — they brought the wrath upon themselves.“ He said the Amish "don't serve God, they serve themselves." ..
An excellent example of what you said above.


Charles Carl Roberts IV killed these girls — Naomi Rose Ebersole, 7; Marian Fisher, 13; Mary Liz Miller, 8; and her sister Lena Miller, 7, Anna Mae Stoltzfus, 12.
Another 6 year old girl was taken off life support so that she could be taken home to die.
Dr. D. Holmes Morton who was working with the 6 year old said, "I just think at this point mostly these families want to be left alone in their grief and we ought to respect that."
Here is a man who worked with the Amish for years and still doesn’t see what is right in front of him.
The Amish don’t want to be left alone. They want you to join them in a life of peace and harmony.
The world is a harsh place as it is but the modern world is filled with things that do not need to be that cause needless sorrow and waste a lot of time.
The handguns that killed these children wasted a lot of time and have caused much sorrow.
An Amish neighbor comforted the Roberts family hours after the shooting and extended forgiveness to them.
What courage before Christ have you shown today that could even come close to matching the compassion and love that was shown here?
It went almost without notice.
Hidden in the howling mob-like news coverage.
The common human experience was nearly quenched in the riot of sound and images just as the lives of these girl children were snuffed out.
But the light shone out.
Do you see it?
What action will you take to make the world a better place? What will YOU do to make this country and God’s world a place where girl children are safe?
It’s up to you.
This happened to your neighbors. People you are bound to protect as an American and a person.
The thing is, we get caught up in our own lives and forget that we do have incredible power with the people that we come into contact with on a daily basis. I have met some people in my life that have had the most vile, horrific experiences and things perpetrated upon them while children. In ALL cases the thing that made the difference in their lives was ONE PERSON. One person reached out, one person made them feel SAFE if only for a short interval. One person showed them they could live through the horror. One person showed them hope. One person made a difference.
Every day we have the same opportunity. Everyday as we meet eyes with just one person and do not turn away in revulsion we may have made a difference that can not be seen or measured, but to the person who connects with us, we have made all the difference in their world and those they may later come into contact with.

I truly believe it. We are the answer. I think it starts that simply.