I thought I would talk about the school shooting that occurred in Essex, VT on August 24, 2006. School was not yet in session. The teachers were in the school.

The hour-long spree exploded out of a domestic dispute between Christopher Williams, 26, of Essex and his former girlfriend, schoolteacher Andrea Lambesis.

burlingtonfreepress.com 

Williams went to the school after fatally shooting his girlfriend’s mother at home. He was apparently looking for his girlfriend. He shot while in the school and then went to a residence to shoot someone else.

The story is full of tragedy, teachers locking themselves in classrooms, under cover police escorts of potential victims, stopping traffic as the killer is loose afoot, a chase…Williams eventually shot himself in the head, 2ce, but he survived.  He is being held without bail.

"It's not something that happens here," said (a VT) parent: the same thing we'd have said about the Amish.

I tell my children: sin is everywhere.