Texas student wishes for gun in stabbing incident
Fourteen students were injured by a crazed knife-wielding thug this morning at the Lone Star Community College in Houston. One student who was barricaded in a classroom with about 50 others told Fox News, according to the Washington Times;
“God protected us in our classroom,” he said. “We wish we could protect ourselves with guns and stuff. We wish that the law would let us carry guns because we’re legal adults, [to] carry guns on campus to protect ourselves. But so far all we have to rely on is God. But we would love to have God and the law on our side.”
The PJStar reports that the slasher was a student and he’s in custody;
The attack came three months after a different Lone Star campus was the site of a shooting in which two people were hurt. The suspected gunman in that incident is charged with aggravated assault.
A Texas sheriff says the suspect in a stabbing attack at a Houston-area college is a man believed to be about 21-years-old who is enrolled at the school.
Category: Crime
I’m sure the fascists are saying, “If he had had a gun, they would all be dead” and overlook the point in this post: If a victim had a gun, there would have been fewer or, perhaps, no victims. (No longer am I referring to the 2nd amenment repudiators as anything but what they are: fascists.)
Come on… pick up a knife, a bar, a chair or a freaking backpack to defend yourself. It’s not like he had a gun or a naginata or something. I doubt he was even trained in knife fighting. You don’t need to hide behind a gun or a copper when lives are threatened.
I bet the slasher wished for a gun too.
Brick, rock, stick, motherfucker…
I’m just glad they got the guy who shot that knife at those people. Musta been a semi-automatic assault style knife.
Seriously though, let’s see…today, 14 people wounded with a knife. Same school (different campus) not too long ago, 3 people wounded with a gun.
This!
http://weirdlywiredworld.files.wordpress.com/2012/06/why-you-dont-piss-me-off.jpg
Hmmmm . . . . 14 students injured. Close to meme.
But the attacker used a knife, not a gun.
Nope, you’ll hear little to none from the LSDM on this, it doesn’t fit their gun-grabbing agenda.
Crazed veteran story to surface in about 4…3…2…
I believe that the reason so many were wounded by a nutjob with a box-cutter is because we have taught our children that it is better to be a victim than stand up for yourself. I was in CC up until Jan, and I don’t think I would have just stood there and watched. bookbag/backpack,books pens-all can be utilized as weapons for either defense or offense.
FNC Shep Smith reports based on interviews of students, that the suspect had an eccentric personality…he carried around dolls and would talk to them. Allegedly he was mocked and ridiculed…basically an outcast on campus. Two of the stab victims are reportedly still in serious condition.
When you take the gun out of “gun violence” you still have violence. But nobody is comfortable admitting that violence in general is the real problem.
How the fuck does 1 guy stab 12 people?
Is it the juice box culture that the kids grow up in?
I mean everyone who posts here is trained to run toward gunfire, let’s not even talk about knives. Shit you’ve got at least a backpack full of books, pens.
After the first one or two instinct is to jump on this guy and beat him to death. It was in a building, so do kids just not have any SA at all?
signed,
Dumbfounded
Well, if it makes ya’ll feel better, I teach freshman phsyics and at least 5 of my kids carry (as do I). Say what you want about CO, but our campus’ remain armed.
No doubt our rock-climbing dipshit will be here any second to tell us how we should ban knives “fer the chirruns!”
@11
Eventually, a group of them took the guy down, apparently.
When less than 1% have served, I guess I’m not too surprised.
@11 the same way a wolf eats 3 sheep…they all just run and wait their turn to die….
however, when you throw in an armed victim like the buffalo in yellowstone, the wolf learns a new lesson…it sucks to be crippled and starving to death because the buffalo teamed up to gore your ass…
too many sheeple….not enough buffalo people…
@5: Congratulations, sir. You have won the internet today.
i’d bet the teachers hid behind the students.
I would have expected better from Texans, but I guess this generation of college kids are a bunch of pussies. Of course, I am not surprised seeing as how the school I currently attend (more off than on due to military commitments) lists in their emergency action plan what to do in the event of gunfire or campus violence. It all involves cowering in your classroom and hoping the angel of death passes you by. I’m sorry, the idea that it took over a dozen people getting stabbed before someone took the initiative to stop this guy is laughable. And don’t even get me started on the law enforcement response to this incident. I’ll tell you this, I would have taken this punk down with a quickness with my bare hands if necessary, but most likely with my OCS approved (3″ or less) Leatherman folding knife, which I am also not supposed to have on campus.
He wants a gun? OK, but he won’t like where I’ll stick it.
@18,,,and to think LT,,this is the same generation you get too lead into harms way! good God,,good luck sir
Pete,
Don’t remind me (just kidding)! The hardest part of attending Army Basic Training was dealing with these kids. I went through as an old man (38 years old), prior service Air Force NCO. Since Warrior Transition Course was eliminated, my old ass had to do Basic. However, most of the soldiers that went through Basic with me shaped up pretty well. It probably helped that we had 3 (myself included) prior service NCO’s in the Company. And, being the glutton for punishment that I am, I went through OCS at age 39. I am one of the oldest 2nd Lieutenants in this man’s Army, but it’s all good. My experience has been regarding this generational thing, is that Soldiers/Sailors/Airmen/Marines (and even the Coasties!) are not in the same category as their contemporaries and typically get the “juice box” mentality drilled out of them in Basic. However, I find that I have little to no patience with college kids who have not been in the military; between the generation gap and the self-absorbed, participation trophy mentality, it’s a bridge too far for me.
Mustang,
i hear ya bro,,when i joined the Army in the mid 70’s,,i, too was a at a crossroads with all the anti crap going on.
i celebrate our currant troops everyday because i can.
i will always have the faith with our kids. regardless
#21
My wife was a mustang (retired). Well done on the 39 years old OCS. It’s hard keepin’ up with them little whippersnappers.
#21 but… we’re sneakier. Wisdom tempers the hurt 😉
It really is a sad commentary on our mental health system that we have gotten to the point of having to defend ourselves from the mentally ill, because society refuses to deal with it. Students could benefit from some self defense classes until we stop letting politics distracts us and grow the cajones fix it.
Another thank you for our shitty society that has shamed and told others to simply accept crazy fucks being crazy publicly as though it should be celebrated. Every single fucking time people know exactly who these turds are. That school is criminally negligent by obvious disturbed shitbag on campus.
@25
defend ourselves from the mentally ill, because society refuses to deal with it.
Fair point. Who’s at fault? Is it the politicians for drastically cutting funding for treating (and let’s be honest here, holding) the mentally ill, or ours for demanding it and electing the people who cut them loose?
It would be kind of ironic if this event took place in this professor’s classroom.
http://www.campusreform.org/blog/?ID=4698
I’m sure Joe will avoid this thread like garlic to vampires.
As others have pointed out; we’re raising generations of pussies. Whether it be high school or college. In my day (not THAT long ago), if someone would have pulled a knife; a calm, measured beat down would have ensued by multiple people.
@24: As the old saying goes “youth and talent are no match for age and treachery”.
@26 – Without a doubt. A grown man carrying around dolls on campus and talking to them? That didn’t spark someone’s curiosity to bring him in and start asking some questions? (I’ll leave the whole ‘knife’ thing alone because I think enough has been said.)
That school has already had a shooting, and now the mass knifing? What kind of fuggin’ school are they running out there?
Mentally ill or not, he still deserved an ass whoopin’.
@27
In the 70’s Geraldo did an expose on the mental institutions and as a result there was an impetus to release the residents and shut them down. As Krauhammer says, ‘we wrapped them in their rights and abandoned them on the streets’
It’s time to have this conversation and personally, I’d like it to start with Geraldo and Krauthammer on O’Reilly.
News report at noon is that this ‘slasher’ has been dreaming about stabbing people to death since he was 8 years old.
I have no comment about this other than someone left the cage door open and the gator got out.
If you’ve ever been accosted by a mental case on the street, there’s one thing you notice at once. Anyone who sees/hears what’s going on heads the other way, in a hurry. You’re on your own, whatever happens.
And, on a more relevent note, many of the recent attacks were by students on college campuses. These are seriously disturbed young people. What are they doing enrolled in college?
@36, I’m glad I’m doing all my classes online.