Letter to the Editor

In the past months, ten girls, ten daughters were shot and five of them killed in a shooting spree at an Amish school house. The girls were separated out from the rest of the people in the school house, lined up, terrorized and executed.

In Colorado a gunman separated girls from their classmates for especially disgusting molestation and then shot one of them.

Let's imagine for moment if this had happened in Milwaukee or Los Angeles. Let's imagine for a moment if a gunman separated out the blacks in the room, lined them all up and executed them. Imagine the public outrage, even riots that would ensue.

Let's imagine if a gunman had separated out the Jews or a group of Iraqis or Catholics or even gay men, and then lined them up for shooting. The outrage would resound from one end of this nation to the other much like the outrage of 911 itself. The lets imagine that it happened twice!! In two different states.

But when it is girls being slaughtered there may be a lot of tears and sympathy, people may really feel an emotional impact of the tragedy, but no riots. No political outrage and no promises from the President to stem the tide of terrorism against American women.

To quote the New York Times, "None of that occurred because these were just girls, and we have become so accustomed to living in a society saturated with misogyny that violence against females is more or less to be expected. Stories about the rape, murder and mutilation of women and girls are staples of the news, as familiar to us as weather forecasts. The startling