Multiple students attacked with a knife in Pennsylvania school

[Webfoot Hero]

I'd imagine he got them either in a hallway or maybe a lunchroom, where an incident like this causes a crowd to become panicked and just unable to protect themselves in the chaos and confusion that ensues.

 

[NickNitro]

what was he doing? running down the halls both knives out clipping kids left and right?

 

[Superwoman Prime]

It's believable that he could knife twenty people before anyone could really react. Element of surprise. Works in combat situations where the enemies ARE somewhat already on guard.

Never mind a complete civilian setting.

 

[Teelie]

It's not that hard to stab or slash people in close quarters like that. Probably easier than firing a gun.

 

[Superwoman Prime]

The "guns vs anti-guns" discussion is preferable to "blame teachers for being inept".

For the love of crap, please just don't.

Don't even imply.

 

[The Question]

The "guns vs anti-guns" discussion is preferable to "blame teachers for being inept".

For the love of crap, please just don't.

Don't even imply.

Yeah. Turns out, teachers generally don't have any greater ability to stop a knife wielding maniac than the average student.

 

[NickNitro]

Do schools have Police Officer's there monitoring the halls? My High School had at least 1 there every day just hanging around.

 

[The Question]

Do schools have Police Officer's there monitoring the halls? My High School had at least 1 there every day just hanging around.

It depends on the school. Schools in high crime areas usually do, schools in low crime areas usually don't.

 

[Hobgoblin]

My high school had at least one guard on duty, and I live in the boondocks.

 

[Hal_Jordan]

My high school had at least one guard on duty, and I live in the boondocks.

I've seen reports that have said this school had 2 armed guards(which could just mean pepper spray), and that one of them might have been stabbed too.

 

[redhawk23]

We need to ban knives from society. It's the only logical course of action.

Obviously this couldn't have happened if the adults were carrying katanas.

 

[redhawk23]

He's making a jab at the gun control advocates who want to ban guns.



I wonder if this student was bullied. I guess that's always the first thought.

Even though that narrative is almost never at all part of the reality of the situation.

 

[Siby]

As someone else said stabbing 20 kids must be tiring and damn he must have been on a rampage to get so many. Some he stabbed multiple times.

I'm also glad it wasn't in my area of PA. I feel for the families. Even the stabber's family, if they are the average responsible parent trying to raise their kids properly.

 

[redhawk23]

From CNN

A doctor who treated six of the victims, primarily teens, said most initially did not know what happened.
"They just felt pain and noticed they were bleeding," Dr. Timothy VanFleet, chief of emergency medicine at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, told CNN.
"Almost all of them said they didn't see anyone coming at them. It apparently was a crowded hallway and they were going about their business, and then just felt pain and started bleeding."

http://www.cnn.com/2014/04/09/justice/pennsylvania-school-stabbing/index.html?hpt=hp_t1

 

[regwec]

Just relieved no-one was killed. Good thing there were no guns involved.

 

[terry78]

So he was just casually stabbing and then walking off? That's honestly creepier than if he actually did haev a gun.

 

[Teelie]

Knives don't have a loud bang, they don't have ammuntion and they are easier to conceal and as the doctor said, it doesn't immediately become noticable every time. You might feel a jab or some pain but anyone who's been cut before knows it isn't instantly a fountain of blood when you are cut. All of that combined with the narrow space of a hallway or a crowded classroom makes it easier to attack people and not be caught as fast.

 

[regwec]

And yet, no fatalities. What a relief.

 

[The Endless]

As someone who has been stabbed before, what that article says is kinda true. You don't realise you actually been stabbed til you see the blood. When it happened to me i thought i'd been punched. It was my friend who noticed blood on my shirt.

This is terrible though but like others have said, at least it wasn't 20 people being shot, then there would be fatalities for sure.

 

[I'm Old Greg]

I want to know if all these attackers were taking medication.

There are links to medications causing people to do unethical and violent behavior.

 

[Feenix]

I want to know if all these attackers were taking medication.

There are links to medications causing people to do unethical and violent behavior.

There are also links of people not taking medications that cause them to commit violent acts.

I think it's more likely that someone who commits a crime like this wasn't taking their meds. There was a story up here in Canada where a man cut off the head of another man who was sleeping on a bus and ate parts of the man. Turns out the killer was mentally ill and was not taking his medication at the time of the attack.

Once he was put back on it, he became calm and rational.

 

[terry78]

In those instances the person is still liable because they chose not to take the meds for whatever reason though.

 

[Teelie]

This kid might not have been taking any medication at all. Undiagnosed and unsuspected of any kind of illness. There's a lot of presumption he was on or off medication when even getting a diagnosis is sometimes the last thing that happens.

Most of the time people cause an incident before they are treated. Obviously most incidents aren't nearly this bad (usually something minor or even trivial but it's still something that calls out for attention) but people who end up having a problem don't know it until something happens.

 

[terry78]

That train left the station, pal.

 

[Teelie]

Besides, people club baby seals, they don't stab them. We should ban clubs, bats, maces and anything else that might be used in a blunt-weapon form.

We should also ban stupidly off-topic attempts to justify gun-control and gun-freedom because they have no damned business being in a thread about knives being used.