Wednesday, October 11, 2006

Do they even know what they're talking about?

The cover of a magazine that shall remain nameless but that is available at practically any grocery store had a headline about the Amish school shooting and then had as a sub heading a blurb about a recent increase in school shootings.

The problem is this: the guy who comitted the Amish school shooting was middle aged, he wasn't one of the kids. When people talk about school shootings they usually mean Columbine like shootings where the people comitting them are students themselves. The Amish shooting was a shooting in a school but not a school shooting if by school shooting you mean something like what happened in Colorado.

Shooting in school =/= School Shooting.

Basic logic.

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