Bucolic butchery.

It is time for everybody to be armed, kiddies. Especially the children!

1) As soon as your sons and daughters are old enough, buy them guns and ammunition and teach them how to aim straight at the torso.

2) Pass concealed carry laws in all fifty states. And a federal one would help, too.

I don't give a flying fuck what anyone thinks. The next suicidal thug who walks into a school with a gun should have several holes blown through his heart before he gets a shot off.

WGAL: At Least Six Slain At Pa. Amish School
Police Say Shooter Also Killed Self

Golly, I wonder what this asshole's excuse was. Was he abused as a child? Did his wife leave him? Did he lose a job?

Maybe he was in the fucking zipper business and held a deep-seated grudge against the Amish!

Six people were dead after a gunman opened fire in a one-room Amish schoolhouse Monday in Pennsylvania's bucolic Lancaster County, the county coroner said.

"So far six confirmed dead and the helicopters are pulling into (Lancaster General Hospital) like crazy," Lancaster County Coroner G. Gary Kirchner said.

It was unclear if the shooter was among the six, but state police had said earlier that he had been killed at the school. Police said the situation is now under control.

Remember the good old days, when someone wanting to die simply fell on his sword?

Earlier, there were reports of a hostage situation and multiple people shot at the one-room schoolhouse in eastern Lancaster County.

"There are a number of people dead. ... The exact number I do not know yet," state police Cpl. Ralph Striebig said earlier.

The scene is near Paradise Township, Pa. Lancaster TV station WGAL reported that the school is marked off with police tape and there were at least 13 ambulances in the area. A helicopter was overhead and several firefighting companies were on the ground.

Some two hours after the shooting, about three dozen people in traditional Amish clothing, including hats and bonnets, were seen standing near the small school building, talking to one another and to authorities.

Witnesses said that a man named Roy entered the schoolhouse Monday morning and started making threats, WGAL reported. Some people in the Amish community learned about the situation and contacted police.

This guy had a wife and kids. A normal middle class nobody.

He left crazy notes for everyone around the house this morning, saying he wasn't coming home...

His wife called him. He said he wasn't coming home, then the cops are here and I gotta go.

Negotiations took place, but at some point, at least 10 shots were fired within the school, police said.

Television news helicopters showed a person being taken away on a stretcher to a waiting medical helicopter.

The Lancaster County 911 Web site reported that dozens of emergency units were dispatched at 10:45 a.m. Monday.

Lancaster General Hospital officials have called in all available personnel and were told to be prepared for a large number of patients, WGAL reported.

John Lines of Lancaster General Hospital said that so far they have received three female patients ranging in age from 6 to 15. One of them is in critical condition.

Officials at the Penn State Milton S. Hershey Medical Center confirm that victims are also being admitted there. A spokeswoman says the hospital anticipated more than one patient, but the spokeswoman does not know how many.

Police are now searching around the school for victims who may be hiding in nearby fields.

The schoolhouse serves about 30 students from first to eighth grade.

The school is among farmlands just outside Nickel Mines, a tiny village about 55 miles west of Philadelphia.

To arms! To arms!

Here's more:

WGAL: Police: 'He Intended Not To Walk Out Of There Alive'
Police responded to a multiple shooting and hostage situation in eastern Lancaster County this morning at a small, one-room Amish schoolhouse, where at least six people were shot to death, according to the county coroner.

Commissioner Jeffrey Miller of the Pennsylvania state police identified the gunman as Charles Carl Roberts IV, 32, of nearby Bart, Pa. Miller said Roberts was a truck driver who delivers milk. He went to work last night and all appeared normal. Miller said he took his children to the bus stop this morning and that the last time his wife saw him was at 8:45 a.m.

Miller said Robert's wife did find what appeared to be a suicide note this morning. She tried to contact her husband. Miller said that it appears that Roberts was intent on getting revenge for something that happened 20 years ago, and it involved young females. All of the deceased, except for the shooter, were females.

"It's obvious to us that this was a premeditated hostage scenario," Miller said. "I believe, based on what the investigators have so far, he intended not to walk out of there alive, but he also intended to kill innocent victims."

Before the shooting, Miller said Roberts allowed all of the male students, three adult females who had infants and a pregnant woman to leave. That group, which included the teacher, went to a nearby farm. The teacher called police at 10:36 a.m., saying that hostages had been taken at the school, which police said is known as the Georgetown Amish School.

Miller said officers responded and that Roberts, who was armed with an automatic handgun and a shotgun, could easily see them. Miller said Roberts called Lancaster County radio and told them if state police did not remove themselves in 10 seconds, he would start shooting people. A negotiator was able to get the cell phone number that Miller had called from, and just as that negotiator was calling back, Roberts started shooting, Miller said.

"They heard shots, multiple shots in quick succession," Miller said.

Miller said officers had already been preparing for an assault, and that as the shots were fired they moved in. Getting inside was not easy because Roberts had blocked all doorways with two-by-fours and two-by-sixes, which he had brought with him. Officers had to climb into the schoolhouse through windows. By the time they were in, Roberts had shot students, what appears to be a teacher's aide and himself.

Miller said Roberts had forced many of the children to line up against the blackboard and that he bound their feet with wire ties and flex cuffs. Miller said that it appears when Roberts shot the children, they were shot execution style. One of the shot females died in the arms of a state trooper, Miller said.

Some of the injured children, who have been transported to various hospitals, were shot in the head and other body parts.

So far, three female students, one female teacher's aide and Roberts are dead.

How do our moral and intellectual superiors want us to "cope" with this sort of thing?

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May God have mercy on those poor little kids. And the rest of us.

Right now, Amish families are waiting at a nearby farm to find out which children survived.

News 8 reporter Anne Shannon said people who were inside the scene told her with tears in their eyes that Lancaster County has never seen a tragedy like this.

"This is definitely an enormous scene," Shannon said.

"Enormous"?

The scene is at 4876 White Oak Road in Bart Township.

"They're all little kids," said a man who lives near the school. "I see the kids come right by my house … they're always friendly, waving, smile. They come to our house sometimes selling different goods … They're sweet kids. It just blows my mind. It's as quiet as can be out here."

This may turn out to be a SEX IS DEATH story...

WGAL: Police: Man Executed Amish Girls At Pa. School
Shooter Allegedly Sought Revenge From Childhood Incident

Police said the man who opened fire at an Amish school in Pennsylvania Monday had let the boys and the adult women leave while holding the girls hostage -- and then shot them as police arrived.

Police said they found the bodies of three girls at the scene, along with the body of the gunman, who had turned the gun on himself. They said several other victims were taken to hospitals -- some with very serious injuries. All had gunshot wounds. The county coroner reported six deaths in all.

The shooter, identified as Charles Carl Roberts IV, 32, sent the male students and some adult females out of the West Nickel Mines Amish School, state police Commissioner Jeffrey B. Miller said. He then barricaded himself inside. Miller said Roberts had forced many of the children to line up against the blackboard and that he bound their feet with wire ties and flex cuffs.

"He bound the female students up by the blackboard and apparently executed them," Miller said.

Miller said Roberts was a husband, father of three and milk truck driver from nearby Bart, Pa. His wife said she suspected nothing Monday morning as her husband walked their children to the bus stop about 8:45 a.m. She said she left the house, then came home later to find what appeared to be several suicide notes to her and the children.

When asked about a motive, Miller said Roberts called his wife at 11 a.m., but did not tell her where he was. Roberts said to her during that call that he was acting out to achieve revenge for something that happened 20 years ago. He told her he loved her and he would not be home, but that the notes he left would explain it all. Miller did not elaborate on what the event was that caused him to want revenge 20 years later, but said that it appears he wanted to attack young, female victims -- which is why he chose the school.

"He told her he loved her and that was it," Miller said.

Ah, love...