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Oct. 4th, 2006 03:43 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kyburgThe Amish have also been reaching out to the family of the gunman, Charles Carl Roberts IV, 32, who committed suicide during the attack. Dwight Lefever, a Roberts family spokesman, said an Amish neighbor comforted the Roberts family hours after the shooting and extended forgiveness to them.
"I hope they stay around here and they'll have a lot of friends and a lot of support," Daniel Esh, a 57-year-old Amish artist and woodworker whose three grandnephews were inside the school during the attack, said of the Robertses.
Huntington, the authority on the Amish, predicted they will be will be very supportive of the killer and his wife, "because judgment is in God's hands: `Judge not, that ye be not judged."
Suck on that, "Christian" Coalition.
It's not mentioned in this article, but this also appears to extend to including Robert's widow and surviving children in funds raised by the community to help out with funeral and other expenses incurred as a result of this tragedy.
I gotta go visit these guys. They get it.
"I hope they stay around here and they'll have a lot of friends and a lot of support," Daniel Esh, a 57-year-old Amish artist and woodworker whose three grandnephews were inside the school during the attack, said of the Robertses.
Huntington, the authority on the Amish, predicted they will be will be very supportive of the killer and his wife, "because judgment is in God's hands: `Judge not, that ye be not judged."
Suck on that, "Christian" Coalition.
It's not mentioned in this article, but this also appears to extend to including Robert's widow and surviving children in funds raised by the community to help out with funeral and other expenses incurred as a result of this tragedy.
I gotta go visit these guys. They get it.
