As many of you know, I live in Central Pennsylvania. I live about 10 miles from where last weeks school house shooting took place.
We are, of course, pretty upset that this could happen, to not only our neighbors, the Amish, but to anyone’s children, anywhere.
Many people, since then, have been very critical of the Amish stance on forgiving the man who shot their children. And, many people have come here to gawk at a shot up school house, the home of the shooter, and the simple folk who are trying to get on with their everyday lives.
But, just like passing a wreck on the freeway, people have got to stop and look.
But folks, where these people live ain’t a freeway, this ain’t a car wreck or a tourist stop to pick up souveniers.
This is a small, quiet, farming community on a very small back road.
They didn’t ask for or desire National attention, or for the slack jawed gawkers who clog their small roads all weekend long.
So, a little advice for the curious. Stay home. Keep your dirty money. And, make sure you lock your guns up, so I don’t have to read about your half breed son from Missouri taking an AK-47 to school again.