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9th April 2014, 19:39 #1
School shootings and now school stabbings??
WTF is wrong with kids these days.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-26959628
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9th April 2014, 20:02 #2
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Arm the teachers with guns.
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10th April 2014, 03:26 #3
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Putting guns in the classroom is not the answer.
All the teachers need is bigger knives.
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10th April 2014, 03:37 #4
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10th April 2014, 08:12 #5
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Had the attacker carried a gun, exercising his "right to bear arms", how many fatalities might there have been?
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10th April 2014, 12:52 #6
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The attacker was exercising his right to bear arms. Swords, clubs, bommy-knockers, koshers, knives and black puddings are all arms of sorts.
This is probably a consequence of an unfettered right, without caveat as all of these incidences are. America has long since decided that this sort of thing is acceptable.The Old Republic was a stupidly run organisation which deserved to be taken over. All Hail Palpatine!
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10th April 2014, 18:07 #7
I'm not sure how this incident can be linked to an unfettered right... or an unfettered left. I haven't caught the details on what sort of knife this kid used, but short of a pen knife, most anything found in even a kitchen (anywhere in the world) could be used to inflict serious bodily harm.
While I was in L.A., a crazy guy walked into a police station, got into some sort of argument with a cop at he desk and whipped out a gun and shot the cop. Needless to say, the guy got lit up like a Christmas tree after he did it - but AFAIK, he is still alive (somehow). I think the cop survived too. Now how crazy is THAT?! And California is one of the most liberal states (with some of the toughest gun laws) in the U.S.
Crazy people do crazy things. I guess that's what makes them crazy. As far as what to do about them, that is above my pay grade. I really don't know what THE answer is there."Every generation's memory is exactly as long as its own experience." --John Kenneth Galbraith
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10th April 2014, 22:33 #8
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10th April 2014, 12:55 #9
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Doesn't make a lot of difference what weapon was used. There is little you can do to stop crazy. Though I'm sure some will now want to start registering knives and ban their use by all but law enforcement. Gonna be tough going gnawing those steaks at the Saturday cook out.
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10th April 2014, 15:39 #10
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I'm not saying you can stop someone goig crazy. But, the consequences of going crazy with a knife are demonstrably less deadly than running amok with a gun.
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