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Jefferton
I find it amusing to no end how many times guns have been mentioned in a stabbing thread.
Agendas are fun.
AnteBellum
I think psychologically it is easier for someone to go on a knife slashing rampage, then a gun shooting one.
Let me try to be very clear with this comment.
If someone is thinking about doing mass harm to others, just grabbing a knife seems like an easier out, then to get a gun and go through the motions of that. There is less thought involved. It's more spontaneous.
AnteBellum
I think psychologically it is easier for someone to go on a knife slashing rampage, then a gun shooting one.
Let me try to be very clear with this comment.
If someone is thinking about doing mass harm to others, just grabbing a knife seems like an easier out, then to get a gun and go through the motions of that. There is less thought involved. It's more spontaneous.
Jefferton
I find it amusing to no end how many times guns have been mentioned in a stabbing thread.
Agendas are fun.
Destinyone
Jefferton
I find it amusing to no end how many times guns have been mentioned in a stabbing thread.
Agendas are fun.
Watching CNN, when they aren't doing their continued coverage of the missing plane, they are inserting updates on this unfortunate stabbing incident at the school. The first 3 people they had on, during the time I watched, talked about guns. Yes, there are people with agendas in the MSM talking about guns too. I haven't a clue why they would be bringing up a weapon that was not used today...but they did.
Des
I would have to disagree with you. A stabbing or cutting is VERY personal as you are VERY close to the individual you are trying to harm. A gun you can use from a distance so there is a easier disconnect of emotion once already in that state of mind.
Four of the victims were taken to area hospitals via helicopter. Those injured were between 14 and 17 years old, Stevens said, adding that not all of them were stabbed or slashed with a knife.
FirePiston
Watching the news now.. The lead investigator guy is talking.... Why don't they call this kid the suspect? He called him the "actor".
Firepiston
luciddream
Availability and lethality.
Contrary to the belief, this story is actually anti-gun, this shows the difference between the damage caused by a nut with a gun and a nut with a knife.
Any moron can go to a store and get a gun in a heat of frustration and unleash hell. Where as a knife wielding nut can only do so much(this story is a prefect example).
You cant change the people that are retarded, you have to control the inanimate object(be it cars, guns, knifes) and their availability.
Heck, there is a good amount of people that are against any type of check, they want gun to be given to anyone, no questions asked.
Today you can be a loving gun owning father, tomorrow you are a divorced, frustrated, drunk who went on a rampage at your wife's workplace.
When these lunatics use Crossbow, knife, baseball bat, or a car to mow down civilians over a gun, we will talk about putting restriction on the availability on Crossbow, knife, baseball bat, or a car.
Agit8dChop
Knives, guns.. maybe whats in the hands isn't the problem, maybe its just Americans?
FirePiston
Watching the news now.. The lead investigator guy is talking.... Why don't they call this kid the suspect? He called him the "actor".
Firepiston
AnteBellum
I think psychologically it is easier for someone to go on a knife slashing rampage, then a gun shooting one.
Let me try to be very clear with this comment.
If someone is thinking about doing mass harm to others, just grabbing a knife seems like an easier out, then to get a gun and go through the motions of that. There is less thought involved. It's more spontaneous.
Destinyone
FirePiston
Watching the news now.. The lead investigator guy is talking.... Why don't they call this kid the suspect? He called him the "actor".
Firepiston
It appears to me. In today's politically correct environment. The bad guy is never called the bad guy anymore. They are called everything that dances around the issue of the fact they did something horrible in front of many witnesses. The alleged culprit. The detained person. The (fill in the blank with everything but the bad guy who did something horrible) person.
I think it helps to desensitize the general public, to how horrible their acts really were. It's like giving the bad guy a free pass in being held responsible for their actions, in the minds of people hearing the story. We immediately start looking for an outside source to blame instead of looking at the bad guy, and what he/she did.
Des
Destinyone
Jefferton
I find it amusing to no end how many times guns have been mentioned in a stabbing thread.
Agendas are fun.
Watching CNN, when they aren't doing their continued coverage of the missing plane, they are inserting updates on this unfortunate stabbing incident at the school. The first 3 people they had on, during the time I watched, talked about guns. Yes, there are people with agendas in the MSM talking about guns too. I haven't a clue why they would be bringing up a weapon that was not used today...but they did.
Des
whoistravis
FirePiston
Watching the news now.. The lead investigator guy is talking.... Why don't they call this kid the suspect? He called him the "actor".
Firepiston
Long time lurker first time poster.
I caught that too, I even recorded it on my phone. Just seems too weird for an investigator to use the word "actor" when he can easily have said suspect or aggressor. I have the video but no youtube account if people are interested.