Why was there no similar outrage for the Amish school mass murder in 2006?

[Honeycombe8]

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.

[elleng]

1. There was.

We don't distinguish. We are, however, further removed from the Amish school/community/culture.

[intheflow]

2. It was during the Bush years.

Only gun worshippers were allowed to go in front of cameras.

[cali]

3. Are you kidding? There was both enormous coverage and outrage

I guess you've forgotten.

Furthermore, I think you have to account for the cumulative effect of the mass shootings that have occurred over the past couple of years, as well as the fact that 5 people died in that horror and 27 died in Sandy Hook Elementary.

[Logical]

7. VA Tech was worse than this one. And nothing changed. Why?? Only children matter I guess.

[pnwmom]

11. There was outrage, but not as much coverage. But that makes sense,

because the Amish don't want publicity.

[Honeycombe8]

13. There was nat'l coverage and people were horrified. But no Repubs on TV talking about gun control...

no official statements by Democrats and Republicans alike agreeing that something has to be done, like banning big mags or assault weapons. No coverage of the funerals.

This time, gun control will be passed. There was no gun control passed after the 2006 incident.

[one_voice]

4. Oh God I remember that...

it was horrible. I cried then too.

[bigendian]

5. It was horrible and an outrage.

The families forgave the shooter. That tends to end cycles of rage.

[proud2BlibKansan]

18. +1

[H2O Man]

8. baloney

[pnwmom]

9. The Amish wanted no publicity. People were respecting their wishes. n/t

[rustydog]

10. One may not be worse than the other, but the nation requires a tipping-point

before actionn is taken. The senseless murder of 20 children and 6 adults may be that tipping point.

It doesn't need to be a mass killing. What about Trayvon Martins senseless murder?
the child, in bed, hit by a stray bullet in a gan-related drive-by? What about my friend being shot in the back 5 times by his soon to be x-wife?

[GObamaGO]

12. I was just as outraged by the Amish school shooting as I am this most recent one.

[rug]

14. Because their extraordinary forgiveness and embrace of the shooter's family became the story.

[derby378]

15. Good point

It's like the difference between Jon-Benet Ramsey and "Girl X" in Chicago. The blond, blue-eyed white girl from a middle-class neighborhood in Colorado gets all the attention, while the poor black girl left for dead in Chicago's worst slums barely registers on the national radar. Sometimes I'm at a loss for words as to what gets glossed over in the headlines.

[underpants]

16. The way that Amish community responded, I thought, should have made them "Person of the Year"

thank you for bringing this back to everyone's attention.

The just leveled the school with days. Money poured into them and them gave a large part of it to the sicko's wife because they knew she had nothing to do with it and that she couldn't possibly stay in that area.

As posted above we don't talk about it because we were AT WAR....and the rightwing media couldn't point out the war here.

[JI7]

17. AMish school shooting DID get Huge coverage, but the AMish don't go on TV and do interviews

and things just because their way of life is different.

the parents and other relatives of students and staff killed in this case are more likely to do it so that provides for more coverage.