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		Stabbings reported at Lone Star College in Texas. A suspect is still on the loose and in possession of at least one fully automatic assault knife (usnews.nbcnews.com)		533
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sammyk		2013-04-09 02:52:05 PM

Gyrfalcon: But they told me if everyone had gunz this could never happen!

It's Texas. They have very very strict gun laws.

stonicus		2013-04-09 02:52:16 PM

Smeggy Smurf: The fully automatic Glock AK-15 assault knife is the scariest black knife around.

/scary because it's black
//black is scary
///racists are scared of black

It's very insensitive of you to mock my racism!

Ego edo infantia cattus		2013-04-09 02:52:18 PM

This Looks Fun: I predict rational conversation in this thread.

newnation.sg

I predict troll derp.

Rapmaster2000		2013-04-09 02:52:20 PM

If Americans weren't so hostile to knifery then this wouldn't have happened. I personally have spent hours perfecting my skills at the dagger range. I personally carry at all times a butterfly knife and a concealed cleaver at all times. I'd rather have a dagger and not need it then need a dagger and not have it.

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Lately, I've been carrying this beauty so I can see what I'm stabbing in the dark. I bet the KNIFE KNABBERS are terrified to see such a SCARY knife.

lilplatinum		2013-04-09 02:52:33 PM

kaimaru: This is a college. How is it possible that many people were stabbed? Was he a sprinter or something? HOW ABOUT RUNNING AWAY IDIOTS?

Its a community college..

hugram		2013-04-09 02:52:49 PM

kaimaru: This is a college. How is it possible that many people were stabbed? Was he a sprinter or something? HOW ABOUT RUNNING AWAY IDIOTS?

One of the college victims that did not run away fast enough...
cdn.ebaumsworld.com

WTFDYW		2013-04-09 02:53:06 PM

Waiting for a response from the National Cutlery Association.

tricycleracer		2013-04-09 02:53:21 PM

Rapmaster2000: concealed cleaver

I farking lost it here. Bravo.

FatherChaos		2013-04-09 02:53:22 PM

Brought a knife to a massacre. Results: 14 people hurt.

Captain Darling		2013-04-09 02:53:25 PM

In January, three people were shot at a separate campus of the same college. A federal official said that those shootings appeared to be gang-related. A 22-year-old man was charged with aggravated assault.

Well obviously this proves guns are less dangerous, since only 3 people were wounded then vs 14 now.

Or maybe anecdotal comparative body counts are not very informative.

man metaphysical		2013-04-09 02:54:37 PM

This is why i carry a cheap ass pocket knife with me

tnpir		2013-04-09 02:54:38 PM

The Lone Star system of colleagues has 90,000 students in all.

DAMN YOU ~~AUTOCORRECT SPELL CHECK~~ DAMMIT...

Wellon Dowd		2013-04-09 02:54:50 PM

BigBooper: Gyrfalcon: But they told me if everyone had gunz this could never happen!

I'm sure that the college was a gun free zone. I'm sure glad that no one had a way to defend themselves, or the assailant could have gotten hurt!

Think of what a target-rich environment it would have been if everyone was armed. Like shooting fish in a barrel!

busy chillin'		2013-04-09 02:54:58 PM

hugram: kaimaru: This is a college. How is it possible that many people were stabbed? Was he a sprinter or something? HOW ABOUT RUNNING AWAY IDIOTS?

One of the college victims that did not run away fast enough...
[cdn.ebaumsworld.com image 497x575]

That guy's not the sharpest knife in the gauged nose.

bmr68		2013-04-09 02:55:10 PM

This is the same college that had the shoot-out in January of this year.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/01/22/lone-star-college-shooting_n _ 2527806.html

vudutek		2013-04-09 02:55:15 PM

BigBooper: vudutek: The NKA has issued a statement, "If everybody was armed with a knife, this wouldn't be a problem. The right to bear arms is not limited to guns".

You know, you don't hear much from the National Knife Association. Do they protect your rights to own a sword as well? Or do they limit there protections to smaller blades? Is there a NSA?

I have questions, QUESTIONS THAT NEED ANSWERS!

/and gas, but that's from a bad choice I made at lunch

If you want to use a guillotine to chop your broccoli, the NKA has got your back. The gas, you're on your own.

IamSoSmart_S_M_R_T		2013-04-09 02:55:35 PM

Gosling: And how many deaths are reported due to this knife attack? So far, it appears nobody. Everyone's still alive.

Which would not be the case if the suspect had a gun.

No deaths, so far: "...four people taken by helicopter in critical condition ..."

No deaths were reported in the shooting at another Houston community college earlier this year.

J. Frank Parnell		2013-04-09 02:55:48 PM

kaimaru: How is it possible that many people were stabbed? Was he a sprinter or something? HOW ABOUT RUNNING AWAY IDIOTS?

This is the fundamental difference between knives and guns. You can sit in a lawn chair and kill or harm anyone in a 100 meter radius, but with bladed weapons you actually have to work to hurt people.

stonicus		2013-04-09 02:56:14 PM

Rapmaster2000: If Americans weren't so hostile to knifery then this wouldn't have happened. I personally have spent hours perfecting my skills at the dagger range. I personally carry at all times a butterfly knife and a concealed cleaver at all times. I'd rather have a dagger and not need it then need a dagger and not have it.

[encrypted-tbn2.gstatic.com image 284x178]
Lately, I've been carrying this beauty so I can see what I'm stabbing in the dark. I bet the KNIFE KNABBERS are terrified to see such a SCARY knife.

Which one, Wally or the Beaver?

philotech		2013-04-09 02:56:33 PM

Satanic_Hamster: This would never have happened in a more gun friendly state.

That's funny because the campus has a weapons ban...

Wittenberg Dropout		2013-04-09 02:56:37 PM

In before...ah shiat.

Englebert Slaptyback		2013-04-09 02:56:44 PM

echomike23

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*winnebago fistbump*

IamSoSmart_S_M_R_T		2013-04-09 02:56:45 PM

bmr68: This is the same college that had the shoot-out in January of this year.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/01/22/lone-star-college-shooting_n _ 2527806.html

No, that was the North Harris campus, this is the Cypress campus.

hammettman		2013-04-09 02:57:31 PM

I'm sure a lot of Farkers are saying "whar Texas Tag, whar?" and I have advocated for one in the past, but if I may suggest, whar "ASSAULT" tab, whar? Rather than geographic, entire tab would include the school shooting du jour, stabbings, "smokin' hot teacher on student coitus....

Civil_War2_Time		2013-04-09 02:57:31 PM

kaimaru: This is a college. How is it possible that many people were stabbed? Was he a sprinter or something? HOW ABOUT RUNNING AWAY IDIOTS?

He was actually a basketball guard...making quick cuts, and slicing up the defenseless.

mbillips		2013-04-09 02:57:37 PM

philotech: Apparently we need to ban Assault Knives too...

When will Obama go on TV to comment on this?

If this campus didn't have a weapons ban, this guy would have brought a knife to a gunfight, just saying...

They have armed police; I don't think that qualifies as a weapons ban. Also, we'll likely learn soon what effect having a few armed students/faculty would have (because even in Texas most people are sensible enough not to think they need to carry a pistol all the time).

Cyberluddite		2013-04-09 02:58:25 PM

PC LOAD LETTER: How did so many get stabbed? Were they sleeping or something? Were all the chairs and tables bolted down? Knife vs table. Table generally wins.

It's Texas. They aren't the brightest. I'm sure their first reaction was "Huh, sum guy's got hisself some braght shiny thang and he's a-pokin at folks widdit fur sum reezun. Ah wunder wha? And whut should ah doo bout it?"

tricycleracer		2013-04-09 02:58:31 PM

Photo of suspect:

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CarnySaur		2013-04-09 02:58:31 PM

And here's an actual update from FOX News:
Update, 2:25p ET: A local FOX Houston reporter spoke to a student who was in the building at the time of the stabbing. Students huddled into a classroom in order to flee the scene. The student said, "We wish we could have protected ourselves with guns and stuff. We wish that the law would let us carry guns because we're legal adults, and carry guns on campus to protect ourselves. But so far what we have to rely on is God. We'd love to have God and the law on our side."

Bravo Two		2013-04-09 02:59:25 PM

*reads thread*

Hmmm, I think some people fail to grasp how traumatic wounds and bullets actually work...

TimonC346		2013-04-09 02:59:27 PM

Fissile: I'm guessing subby is being ironic, unfortunately, this is exactly the the kind of "logic" employed by the NRA and Tea-Party types. To wit, "People will kill each other with knives, hammers, chainsaws or beanbag chairs, so there's no reason to ban guns."

I know. This drives me nuts--if you ramp up the weapon just a little bit--say, to a tank--and ask, should we allow people who are clinically insane operate tanks?

The level of damage the object can inflict is important in these issues. I'm less worried about a psychopath with a wad of newspaper than I am of one with an assault rife. Stop playing the "it's only the psychopath" card. That argument is horrible.

BigBooper		2013-04-09 03:00:00 PM

PC LOAD LETTER: How did so many get stabbed? Were they sleeping or something? Were all the chairs and tables bolted down? Knife vs table. Table generally wins.

IKR! If I was there, I would have given him a round house kick straight to the head! I'm a tenth level black belt in an obscure martial art that you've probably never heard about. I'm only one level away from being able to kill with a look. But still, I'm able to kill with most objects, and of course my bare hands and fists. How do you kill with a straw you ask? It's easy, believe me. There are ways. You don't wanna know about it, believe me.

Gunny Walker		2013-04-09 03:00:12 PM

Hey, you know, f### you, man. Any moron with a semi-automatic can cause a mass murder. Mass stabbing is like an endurance trial, man. It's the most exhausting activity one can engage in, next to soccer.

Treygreen13		2013-04-09 03:00:22 PM

BinderWoman		2013-04-09 03:00:40 PM

Marine1: mbillips: Weird, nobody was killed? I thought it was just as easy to go on a murderous rampage with a knife or baseball bat as with a semi-automatic .223 rifle.

FWIW, the article has a picture of someone being carted out of a helicopter. That usually doesn't happen unless it's bad and they need to get someone in surgery right farking now.

Reports are that 4 people were life-flighted to Memorial Hermann (the severe trauma center in the Houston Med Center, approx. 30 miles from the campus) & 2 people were taken to Hermann by ambulance. The rest were taken to the hospital closest to campus. Several injured had stab wounds to the neck.

mbillips		2013-04-09 03:01:03 PM

philotech: Satanic_Hamster: This would never have happened in a more gun friendly state.

That's funny because the campus has a weapons ban...

Well it's not a very effective ban; this dude brought a knife onto campus.

MassAsster		2013-04-09 03:01:51 PM

mbillips: Weird, nobody was killed? I thought it was just as easy to go on a murderous rampage with a knife or baseball bat as with a semi-automatic .223 rifle.

harder to really get to the organs with an X-Acto but...
amazingly 14 people and not one of them could defend themselves against this attack...

/Never bring a knife to a gun fight...

stonicus		2013-04-09 03:01:52 PM

CarnySaur: And here's an actual update from FOX News:
Update, 2:25p ET: A local FOX Houston reporter spoke to a student who was in the building at the time of the stabbing. Students huddled into a classroom in order to flee the scene. The student said, "We wish we could have protected ourselves with guns and stuff. We wish that the law would let us carry guns because we're legal adults, and carry guns on campus to protect ourselves. But so far what we have to rely on is God. We'd love to have God and the law on our side."

God is very powerful and all, but c'mon, the dude had a knife.

Civil_War2_Time		2013-04-09 03:02:08 PM

Cyberluddite: PC LOAD LETTER: How did so many get stabbed? Were they sleeping or something? Were all the chairs and tables bolted down? Knife vs table. Table generally wins.

It's Texas. They aren't the brightest. I'm sure their first reaction was "Huh, sum guy's got hisself some braght shiny thang and he's a-pokin at folks widdit fur sum reezun. Ah wunder wha? And whut should ah doo bout it?"

Needs more Ebonics speak. That area ain't white or brown.

Ego edo infantia cattus		2013-04-09 03:02:23 PM

It has begun.

_{/in London.}

Mikey1969		2013-04-09 03:02:44 PM

mbillips: Weird, nobody was killed? I thought it was just as easy to go on a murderous rampage with a knife or baseball bat as with a semi-automatic .223 rifle.

More killed by knives than all rifles, smei-auto, "assault", etc. Included...

Rifles: 323
Edged weapons: 1,694

http://www.fbi.gov/about-us/cjis/ucr/crime-in-the-u.s/2011/crime-in- th e-u.s.-2011/tables/expanded-homicide-data-table-8

But hey, believe what you want, I guess. You've obviously been on 'selective filter' mode, anyway.

IamSoSmart_S_M_R_T		2013-04-09 03:02:49 PM

BigBooper:

IKR! If I was there, I would have given him a round house kick straight to the head! I'm a tenth level black belt in an obscure martial art that you've probably never heard about. I'm only one level away from being able to kill with a look. But still, I'm able to kill with most objects, and of course my bare hands and fists. How do you kill with a straw you ask? It's easy, believe me. There are ways. You don't wanna know about it, believe me.

i45.tinypic.com

Bravo Two		2013-04-09 03:03:06 PM

TimonC346: Fissile: I'm guessing subby is being ironic, unfortunately, this is exactly the the kind of "logic" employed by the NRA and Tea-Party types. To wit, "People will kill each other with knives, hammers, chainsaws or beanbag chairs, so there's no reason to ban guns."

I know. This drives me nuts--if you ramp up the weapon just a little bit--say, to a tank--and ask, should we allow people who are clinically insane operate tanks?

The level of damage the object can inflict is important in these issues. I'm less worried about a psychopath with a wad of newspaper than I am of one with an assault rife. Stop playing the "it's only the psychopath" card. That argument is horrible.

A recognized class of mental illness drives individuals to be violent, with whatever means they can get ahold of.
People who wish to commit crimes will use whatever means are expedient to their ends.

Why is it so hard to understand that while you may reduce the body count by restricting the objects USED, you'll reduce the actual incidents of crime by seeking to stop the individual, and thus effort made to resolve the issues of people are of greater import than attempts to pass laws that do little to affect the types of changes you're arguing we need them for?

stonicus		2013-04-09 03:03:13 PM

MassAsster: mbillips: Weird, nobody was killed? I thought it was just as easy to go on a murderous rampage with a knife or baseball bat as with a semi-automatic .223 rifle.

harder to really get to the organs with an X-Acto but...
amazingly 14 people and not one of them could defend themselves against this attack...

/Never bring a knife to a gun fight...

Well, it doesn't say how many he tried to attack, just how many he actually hurt. He may have tried to stab 400 people and only succeeded 14 times for all we know.

EqualOpportunityEnslaver		2013-04-09 03:03:46 PM

Clap clap clap clap "Deep in the heart of Texas!"

Bravo Two		2013-04-09 03:03:52 PM

Mikey1969: mbillips: Weird, nobody was killed? I thought it was just as easy to go on a murderous rampage with a knife or baseball bat as with a semi-automatic .223 rifle.

More killed by knives than all rifles, smei-auto, "assault", etc. Included...

Rifles: 323
Edged weapons: 1,694

http://www.fbi.gov/about-us/cjis/ucr/crime-in-the-u.s/2011/crime-in- th e-u.s.-2011/tables/expanded-homicide-data-table-8

But hey, believe what you want, I guess. You've obviously been on 'selective filter' mode, anyway.

This.

Stig2112		2013-04-09 03:04:07 PM

A friend of mine works at that college. I sent her a txt but haven't heard back from her yet.

lostcat		2013-04-09 03:04:14 PM

How many were killed again?

WTF Indeed		2013-04-09 03:04:45 PM

It's a good thing gun control advocates have been pushing a massive mental health overhaul instead of banning weapons rarely used in gun crimes.

lostcat		2013-04-09 03:05:21 PM

Treygreen13: [i291.photobucket.com image 283x574]

Yes, let's close Fark down. No point having a forum for discussion about anything.

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