Danno Posted 9 April 2014 Posted 9 April 2014 As many as 20 students have been injured in stabbing at a high school in the US state of Pennsylvania, authorities have said. One suspect believed to be a student is in custody at Franklin Regional High School in a suburb of Pittsburgh, a local affiliate of ABC News reports. The wounded, at least four with significant injuries, range in age from 14-17 and have been taken to hospital. The school was locked down as police searched the premises. 'Frantic' "A critical incident has occurred at the high school. All elementary schools are cancelled, the middle school and high school students are secure," school officials wrote in a bulletin following the incident on Wednesday morning. Four students are seriously injured, while other students were said to have suffered scrapes and cuts in the mayhem that ensued following the attack, emergency management spokesman Dan Stevens told the Associated Press news agency. Television images of the scene showed students standing in groups outside the school with ambulances nearby. A parent of a student told CBS television his "frantic" daughter called him to say a friend of hers had been stabbed at the school in Murrysville. "I would never expect this to happen," he said, adding that he had believed the community to be safe. The suspect, a male student, has been taken into custody for questioning. Couldn't anyone do anything to stop him?
Jon the Hat Posted 9 April 2014 Posted 9 April 2014 Sounds like 4 students stabbed, in which case obviously someone did stop him, unless he was only targetting 4.
Trav Le Bleu Posted 9 April 2014 Posted 9 April 2014 Sounds like 4 students stabbed, in which case obviously someone did stop him, unless he was only targetting 4. Yeah, I agree. You could stab 4 or even a few more, fairly quickly before anyone could react. I would guess maybe those with "scrapes and cuts" were the ones who took him down.
Merging Cultures Posted 9 April 2014 Posted 9 April 2014 Couldn't anyone do anything to stop him? I would have stopped him. At least it wasn't a gun and he didn't kill 20 people.
Danno Posted 9 April 2014 Author Posted 9 April 2014 Sorry, I read it as 20 being stabbed, I would imagine it would be a lot easier to stop a knife weilding lunatic than someone with a pistol.
Jon the Hat Posted 9 April 2014 Posted 9 April 2014 Which is why access to guns should be much much better controlled. No one is dea yet are they? With a shooting we normally have confirmed dead by now. Fingers crossed they are make it.
lgfualol Posted 9 April 2014 Posted 9 April 2014 Surely America's wonderful NSA should have stopped this from happening? Needs more funding if you ask me.
Captain... Posted 9 April 2014 Posted 9 April 2014 I think this shows why the call for mass gun control in America is a bit of fallacy, it has long been stated that there are more guns owned privately in Canada than in America and they don't have any high school shoot outs or mass killings. Don't get me wrong they should have greater control over guns, but really they should look at why so many of their school kids go homicidal, even if they don't have access to guns, there still seems to be a lot of kids that turn into nutters, it is just that without access to guns they do less damage.
Trav Le Bleu Posted 9 April 2014 Posted 9 April 2014 I think this shows why the call for mass gun control in America is a bit of fallacy, it has long been stated that there are more guns owned privately in Canada than in America and they don't have any high school shoot outs or mass killings. Don't get me wrong they should have greater control over guns, but really they should look at why so many of their school kids go homicidal, even if they don't have access to guns, there still seems to be a lot of kids that turn into nutters, it is just that without access to guns they do less damage. It's because they don't know where Ukraine is.
Merging Cultures Posted 9 April 2014 Posted 9 April 2014 I think this shows why the call for mass gun control in America is a bit of fallacy. many of their school kids go homicidal, even if they don't have access to guns it is just that without access to guns they do less damage. I think you answered why it isn't a fallacy. Reduce access to guns, less damage.
ADK Posted 9 April 2014 Posted 9 April 2014 Wonder why American kids are so prone to this sort of thing? Is it a lack of mental health provision? Then again there was fvck all mental health provision when I was at school and people didn't kill each other. Just seems bizarre really.
Merging Cultures Posted 9 April 2014 Posted 9 April 2014 Wonder why American kids are so prone to this sort of thing? Is it a lack of mental health provision? Then again there was fvck all mental health provision when I was at school and people didn't kill each other. Just seems bizarre really Easy access to weapons. Be it knives, guns whatever. I remember my Mum having a camping knife with the tent in the garage. I'd go play with it because it was unusual to handle a big folded knife. Things like that seem less unusual these days and kids are desensitised. Weapons are there, and killing is something that happens all the time in the US.
MooseBreath Posted 9 April 2014 Posted 9 April 2014 Probably because they're bombarded with victimisation culture, so when a kid gets the piss taken out of him, in his mind it is some great injustice and he must seek revenge. In the UK we used to bring up our kids to laugh it all off but the liberals are pushing us towards super sensitivity too, so won't be long before our own kids are ****ed up enough to do things like this.
sphericalfox Posted 9 April 2014 Posted 9 April 2014 Wonder why American kids are so prone to this sort of thing? Is it a lack of mental health provision? Then again there was fvck all mental health provision when I was at school and people didn't kill each other. Just seems bizarre really. Social pressures in the States start and increase dramatically from a very young age. There isn't a comparison to the UK. You put a young teenager through the meatgrinder with the bollox social expectations that underlay the US societal structure, mix the prospect of accessible weapons, precedent loners 'succeeding' in gaining attention for despicable actions, then the cycle will repeat itself but in a more gratuitous fashion each and every time.
ADK Posted 9 April 2014 Posted 9 April 2014 Social pressures in the States start and increase dramatically from a very young age. There isn't a comparison to the UK. You put a young teenager through the meatgrinder with the bollox social expectations that underlay the US societal structure, mix the prospect of accessible weapons, precedent loners 'succeeding' in gaining attention for despicable actions, then the cycle will repeat itself but in a more gratuitous fashion each and every time. That's probably the most correct answer yes.
Rincewind Posted 9 April 2014 Posted 9 April 2014 That's probably the most correct answer yes. Seems a fair analysis.
Guest MattP Posted 10 April 2014 Posted 10 April 2014 Americans are just quite nuts, I'm surprised these things don't happen more often. I don't think any country has ever done more to glamorised weapons, murder and psychos as the US has.
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