Misplaced priorities
A man stormed a one-room Amish schoolhouse outside of Lancaster, PA today, killing three young girls execution-style. In an unrelated incident, two Las Vegas schools locked down their campuses today on reports of a gun-toting teenager.
Oh, but the answer to violence in America… more violence.
Here in Wisconsin, we’ve had two school violence incidents already this year; a foiled plot in Green Bay, and the senseless killing of a principal outside of Madison. The rhetoric is back: save the children. Let teachers carry guns. Put metal detectors in place.
But who is going to protect the children from the same rhetoric? Or touchy congressmen in Washington? Or school buildings in such poor physical condition if they were used for any other purpose they would be condemned? Or textbooks and materials that still refer to the Soviet Union?
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Daniel Ross-Jones serves as Minister for Youth & Young Adults at First Congregational Church of Palo Alto, United Church of Christ. Living in the San Francisco Bay Area for a time still measured in months, he is frequently getting lost and discovering treasures of a landscape very different from his Upper Midwestern roots. Green Jello Hotdish is a blog exploring the intersections of his days. 
Looks like this man was severely deranged. He was a truck driver that wanted to hurt young girls because of something that happened when he was a child. Utterly Sad.