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In reply to the discussion: A motive is emerging (Sandy Hook shooting) [View all]Cerridwen
(13,260 posts)52. After the shooting at the Amish School in 2006
After the shooting at the Amish School in 2006, during which the gunman took the girls hostage and "allowed a pregnant woman, three parents with infants, and all remaining boys to exit the building" (from wiki), a longtime DU poster came into a thread about it and argued that perhaps the girls had done something to the shooter to make him want to shoot them, because, as the poster noted, you know "how girls are".
I thought that was the height of victim blame and hatred for girls and women on this board.
I was wrong.
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Not only that, the OP tries to pass off obvious conjecture as "logical conclusions"
Major Nikon
Dec 2012
#34
That's what I was thinking...Sounds like a bunch of recycled rumors we've all heard before.
Auntie Bush
Dec 2012
#60
Read an article that said she was planning a move to Washington State and making
JaneyVee
Dec 2012
#3
I have tremendous compassion for the mentally ill. My mother was mentally ill. Fine, she put it
txwhitedove
Dec 2012
#18
When you've raised a mentally ill child, come back and post this same thing.
Sheldon Cooper
Dec 2012
#23
and you know this from experience? Please explain to me how to get an adult "committed"
libdem4life
Dec 2012
#54
She did not fail to notice...she was making plans to take him to Washington for care.
libdem4life
Dec 2012
#72
Yet the school district has denied that she worked or volunteered there.
proud2BlibKansan
Dec 2012
#30
Is this real or the latest media concoction to fill a slowing news stream
ProgressiveProfessor
Dec 2012
#31
You say you have 'compassion' for the mentally ill, but judging from your OP, I doubt
coalition_unwilling
Dec 2012
#48
Ban all guns of any type and all bullets. It was the gun that did this. And blame Ralph Nader
graham4anything
Dec 2012
#51
Fertilizer Purchases - monitored since OK; Molotov Cocktails- a bigger threat to public safety than
Pachamama
Dec 2012
#79
I have nothing but anger and contempt for Nancy Lanza. She didn't get rid of the GUNS!!
Dems to Win
Dec 2012
#89
If this was true, then I'd expect it would have emerged within 2 days of the shooting, not 2 weeks
ShadowLiberal
Dec 2012
#110