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I have had enough . Boys are told to leave and little girls held. Why? We teach them to fight, grab, kick, scream...do anything they can but don't let someone put you in a car. It's time IMO to teach them to fight back in hostage situations too. I am so angry.
I understand, but the Amish are not going to teach their children to confront violence with violence. It ain't gonna happen.
How can we teach our children to fight bullets? These kids were 6-13 years old.
I feel sick, I'm angry, but the fact is these kids & other "adults" had no options. That evil man had all the power.
His answer, "pray for us."
That is the kind of folks they are.
I agree Cindy, I think it is time for kids to be taught that if a man or woman comes into your school with a gun, the best thing you can do is all charge him and get the gun away from him. Chances are more lives would be spared if this was taught. I think back at Columbine and think of all the kids in the library. They all could have jumped Eric and Dylan and gotten those guns away if they had tried. Instead the laid still and were killed, no defense! Personally, I'd rather go to my death fighting than laying down and letting someone take my life.
It is just rough to hear each one of these stories as none of them you hear of anyone fighting back with the killers. It is time to hear something different should God forbid something like this happens again!
And you, how many times have you had a gun in your face?
Little Girls plus Guns plus psycho ADULT WITH A GUN isn't exactly the greatest formula to start advocating teaching kids to fight back...especially in a hostage situation.
It's my understanding that the Amish are extreme pacifists and will not fight back at all. Also, I believe they only go to school until 8th grade so the boys he let go would indeed be little boys.
My guess is that if everyone had fought him together, maybe they could have overcome them, but with a pregnant woman and babies, they probably thought it would be better to comply. I'm sure they didn't expect he'd start slaughtering the girls.
Who would've thought that he'd do an exectution type slaying?
You must remember these were young boys. Not high school age boys.
The boys in Colorado who left the girls behind were older.