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http://news.yahoo.com/around-20-hurt-mass-stabbing-us-high-school-132549145.html

Washington (AFP) - A student stabbed or slashed around 20 others Wednesday at a high school in the US state of Pennsylvania, officials said.

"These are significant injuries," Chris Kaufmann, the trauma medical director at Forbes Regional Hospital, told CNN.

"We had two patients who went immediately to the operating room," Kaufmann said.

The incident at the Franklin Regional High School in Murrysville, about 20 miles east of Pittsburgh, began at about 7:15 am local time (1120 GMT).

Dan Stevens, a spokesman for Westmoreland County emergency management, said the suspect is a male student who has been taken into custody.

Stevens said he was cornered by police officers who rushed to the scene. His age and identity were not immediately released.

A statement on the website of the Franklin Regional School District said a "critical incident has occurred at the high school."

"All elementary schools are cancelled, the middle school and high school students are secure," the statement said.

See...we need gun control know. This has gotten out of hand. If the gun was secure.........wait.......what?

Yeesh. At least nobody has died.

If only there had been a good guy with a knife there to protect the children.

I hope the injured children recover and live full and decent lives.

I hope the injured children recover and live full and decent lives.

Agreed

This is going to go the same way it always does: We score the cheap political points and regurgitate the same tired bumper sticker memes over and over again, to zero productive outcome. I'm as guilty as anyone. Can we see what happens if we don't do it? Just once?

I'm glad no one died. Hopefully all the kids recover and they get the one who did this under some serious evaluation.

 daedalus wrote:
This is going to go the same way it always does: We score the cheap political points and regurgitate the same tired bumper sticker memes over and over again, to zero productive outcome. I'm as guilty as anyone. Can we see what happens if we don't do it? Just once?

Sadly we already had that by the second reply

I just want to know why.

 Dreadclaw69 wrote:

Sadly we already had that by the second reply

I know. It's not too late to stop though.

 MrDwhitey wrote:
I just want to know why.

At this point, I'd like to speculate (based upon zero available information), "fame seeking".

I'm glad the principal was able to tackle the kid and I hope everyone recovers well. What an awful thing.


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 daedalus wrote:
I know. It's not too late to stop though.

If nothing else, the lack of it mattering might be a good reason not to spit tropes, as you say. If nothing else, I bet doing so sort of inures us to the facts of what happened (a sad tragedy) and reduces it to, well, "that thing that happens where we all do our dance".

That's horrible... praying for the wounded to get better.

Quick thinking on that student that pulled the fire alarm.

this is very sad, we had a stabbing in toronto today as well.

So sad that there are such angry/sad/disgruntled people in this world who would rather take out their emotions on the innocent then find a constructive outlet or help or something, anything else.

 Easy E wrote:
If only there had been a good guy with a knife there to protect the children.

It is interesting that there was also a mass stabbing in China recently. I don;t think they are related, but are mass stabbings on the rise world wide?

It's not all bad: this is now, at long last, the top story on Crash News Network: The Flight 370 Website.

At least for a day or so.

 easysauce wrote:
this is very sad, we had a stabbing in toronto today as well.

So sad that there are such angry/sad/disgruntled people in this world who would rather take out their emotions on the innocent then find a constructive outlet or help or something, anything else.

I think more its sad that there are people unable to get help for whatever reason, or no one able or willing to help them. Rarely are these crimes out of the blue.

 Easy E wrote:
It is interesting that there was also a mass stabbing in China recently. I don;t think they are related, but are mass stabbings on the rise world wide?

That is very hard to determine because they are fairly uncommon and the variability is therefore much greater.

There have been two mass stabbings in China recently, which were both "terrorist" attacks by organised groups. That puts them in a different category to the single attacker type.

There was a mass stabbing in Japan a few years ago. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akihabara_massacre
Also several other attacks in China in the past.

Some single attackers are clinically mentally ill, while others just seem to be severely pissed off and want to take it out on someone else.

22 victims in 30 minutes or so, none fatal.

If the teenage was looking to murder, his first and fewer subsequent victims would of been enough. It looks like several slashes or stabs per person and then off to inflict as much damage as possible.

Until more information comes out we will not know immediately. Of note though:

His laywer describes the kid as run of the mill but has no idea caused this to happen.

Police are said to of heard the kid say he wanted to die.

Several students quote the suspect as being quiet/nice kid. Contrast with the crazed look he had while stabbing.

A security guard was stabbed and lots of local news outlets questioning why metal detectors were not installed for a 3,000+ student body along with cameras (that were installed last year). Security guard did his job in helping to subdue the suspect.

Every news outlet with a comments section just teems with pinning the blame on Obama, guns, decay of society, ect..

 WarOne wrote:

lots of local news outlets questioning why metal detectors were not installed for a 3,000+ student body along with cameras (that were installed last year).

Sigh.

Captain Hindsight Appears.

I've only seen metal detectors inside inner city schools. When I went o high school lots of people had knives, including me. It wasn't a big deal.

In my school, every male had a lockblade and carried it openly in their pocket.

Yeah, even 10 years ago when I was in high school I'd say at least 50% of all male students had a knife or blade of some sort on them. The other 50% probably had lighters lol

chaos0xomega wrote:
Yeah, even 10 years ago when I was in high school I'd say at least 50% of all male students had a knife or blade of some sort on them. The other 50% probably had lighters lol

Then there were us who had both.

20+ years ago when I was in High School..we kept shotguns and chain in the trunk of our vehicles....but fists were the way to deal damage.

 Frazzled wrote:
Captain Hindsight Appears.

I've only seen metal detectors inside inner city schools. When I went o high school lots of people had knives, including me. It wasn't a big deal.

Because, In inner citie schools, you are more likely to have those problems.

I am so glad to grow up in the arse end of no where in England. The worst we had to deal with at school was the donkey cave who thought he was much better than everyone else. After a quick scrap all is over and everyone moves on.

Glad that no deaths were involved, dont want to start a gun debate but do you guys across the pond think this sort of thing will only go up if firearms are banned. Not sure how knives are policed over there.

 Steve steveson wrote:

 easysauce wrote:
this is very sad, we had a stabbing in toronto today as well.

So sad that there are such angry/sad/disgruntled people in this world who would rather take out their emotions on the innocent then find a constructive outlet or help or something, anything else.

I think more its sad that there are people unable to get help for whatever reason, or no one able or willing to help them. Rarely are these crimes out of the blue.

actually, since most of the time we find out that these people are on psychoactive meds, it means that not only did they seek out help, but that we gave it to them, and it wasnt the right kind of "help". at best it didnt make them better, at worst it made them worse.

That is whats sad, the fact that most mass killers have reported they were depressed/ect and seen a doctor, been prescribed meds, and then they still snap.

Treat the symptoms and not the problem

One of the main symptoms of depression is lassitude.

https://blog.oup.com/2012/09/seven-myths-of-mass-murder/

chaos0xomega wrote:
Yeah, even 10 years ago when I was in high school I'd say at least 50% of all male students had a knife or blade of some sort on them. The other 50% probably had lighters lol

And 99% of them wouldn't consider using it on another student, and the other 1% wouldn't because everyone had a knife.

chaos0xomega wrote:
Yeah, even 10 years ago when I was in high school I'd say at least 50% of all male students had a knife or blade of some sort on them. The other 50% probably had lighters lol

That's how it was at my school as well. I'm pretty sure it hasn't changed much, but it's not a school in a high crime area either.