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October 2, 2006
A "Church Going Man" Shoots Amish School Children.
Normally I'd cut a father who lost a child to a horrible school shooting a lot of slack. And perhaps I should cut Brian Rohrbough who lost a son at Columbine High School a lot of slack too, but in this case cutting him slack requires more tolerance than I can muster right now. More children are dead and we look for answers. But please, let's look in the right places. Tonight on the CBS Evening News with Katie Couric, Mr. Rohrbough blamed the killing of now four girls in a one room Amish school and other recent school shootings moral decay caused by the availability of abortions, the teaching of evolution in the schools and "expelling God from the schools." If the goal is to list possible (and impossible) causes at random, Mr. Rohrbough forgot to mention one thing that is not exactly a detail,
We talked to one of his neighbors who described Roberts [the killer] as he was a quiet man, a church going man. [My transcript from CBS Evening News]
I don't believe for a minute that Roberts shot these innocents because he went to church any more than I believe that telling the scientific truth about evolution or providing women with a choice had anything to do with it.
As reporter Brian Pitts said, "There is no way for people in this closed community to make sense of it." And we should not try to make sense of it either until we know a lot more about Charles Carl Roberts IV and what motivates people like him. One of the evils of our species is our desire to make sense of the senseless. Let us mourn the death of all innocents. But let's blame those deaths on the perpetrators not our own special causes.
Rohrbough and CSB News did the memory of those innocent children and our nation a disservice this evening.
Posted by Duane Smith at October 2, 2006 8:07 PM | Read more on Current Events |
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My wife and I were also disappointed when we saw Katie Couric's news show. We understand that that portion of Katie's show is to allow people to editorialize and speak their minds, but we felt it was inappropriate, to say the least, to put that man's ignorant accusations on her show the same day as the shooting.
Posted by: Glen Griffith at October 3, 2006 12:24 PM
Fairfax, VA - 10/9/06 2:45pm CT
"...Gun Education classes in all Elementary and Middle Schools are clearly needed" commented NRA spokesman Charlton Heston Monday. "Kids need to know how to take care of their weapons and we can teach them how!" said Heston after what he viewed as an "embarrassing" incident today at Joplin Middle School in MO. where a 13-year-old boy carried an assault rifle into the school Monday, pointed it at students and fired a shot into a ceiling before the weapon jammed. "No self-respecting NRA student of mine would have let his firearm jam in the middle of an assault" commented the 87 year old former actor turned gun supporter. When asked if he felt the jamming of the gun was good since it prevented the student from any further shooting, Heston spit on the reporter who asked the question and yelled "Communist", then drove away from the press conference accompanied by his press agent and longtime friends Pat Robertson and Rush Limbaugh. When asked to comment on Mr. Heston's remarks, a spokesman for the NRA reached at their headquarters in Virginia declined to comment.
Posted by: George at October 10, 2006 2:04 PM
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