#BREAKING: All victims expected to survive school stabbing

[kpete]

NOT GUNS.

Patients were sent to Forbes Regional Hospital, Allegheny General Hospital and University of Pittsburgh Medical Center Presbyterian. Four of the victims were airlifted to area hospitals, Seven patients are suffering from life-threatening injuries, although they are expected to survive their injuries.


http://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/local/Multiple-People-Injured-in-High-School-Stabbing-254519961.html?_osource=SocialFlowTwt_PHBrand

[Jim__]

1. That's great news!

[oneofthe99]

2. The mental injuries these kids suffer will be long lasting

I hope the school and state has the proper counseling in place to address this.

Great news though that no lives were lost during the attack.

[BrotherIvan]

3. No guns = no death

Who ever could have known?

[dickthegrouch]

9. That is not at all a given

The preferred method of murder in the UK is stabbing since guns are so hard to obtain.

There is no correlation between lethality or lack thereof between guns and knives. The only thing going for the victim when a knife is used is that assailant is in closer proximity and risks getting hurt themselves.

I would make it my goal to get assailant blood on me for the authorities to perform every test known to identify said miscreant if I were attacked. Even if it takes 30 years for my attacker to resurface, that's 30 years they've had to be looking over their shoulder and waiting for the inevitable.

[backscatter712]

10. Firepower matters.

Yes I know, Thank You Captain Obvious, but it's easier to kill someone with a gun than it is with a knife.

So far (could change later), it's zero fatalities.

If the psycho had a gun, chances are good there would be over a dozen fatalities.

[Lizzie Poppet]

14. Probably not that many...but very likely SOME.

About one in five victims of deliberately-inflicted gunshot wounds dies (excluding suicides, for obvious reasons). That would make for 4 or 5 deaths, depending on what the number of people stabbed turns out to be (and assuming all else stayed the same, which is unlikely). Definitely a lot smaller chance of fatal wounds with a knife, since the kid is unlikely to have been trained with knives* and he had to get within arm's reach.

It's a lot harder to kill with a knife than with a gun, not because guns are necessarily more inherently lethal, but because you have to get close and you have to know what you're doing. Guns require skill, too...but are far, far easier to become at least marginally competent with.

[AtheistCrusader]

11. Except of course, that is not true.

There have been mass stabbings/slashing that resulted in multiple fatalities. We are fortunate that is not the case today.

Guns are a force multiplier, no doubt about that. But try not to dance too much in the blood of these victims over a political point, that is not an absolute as you offered it.

[Go Vols]

17. +1

[KittyWampus]

19. how do you know that no guns might not = bombs?

For instance?

[BrotherIvan]

20. So by your logic

We should do nothing about the rampant gun violence in this country because someone might use a bomb instead?

OMG BOMBZ!!!!!!!!!!!

[AtheistCrusader]

24. It's actually not funny.

Highest body count from a school attack in the US was via a bomb, not guns.

That said, I agree insofar as it is not a reason to not regulate guns. There are LOTS of good reasons to regulate guns. Just like there are reasons to regulate dynamite, which, one might fairly assume to have a correlation to the lack of use of dynamite in school bombings since that aforementioned attack.

[MoonRiver]

4. Good news!

[eppur_se_muova]

5. Someone brought a knife to a mass shooting ?

That's not doing it right. Damn those restrictive gun laws !

[Nye Bevan]

6. Sure beats having 20 kids laid out in a morgue

which would probably be the case had a gun been used.

This was an absolutely horrible thing, but it shows just how much worse these crimes are when a gun is involved.

[treestar]

7. Yes. There is no argument guns can cause a lot more death a lot faster.

[Lizzie Poppet]

15. Absolutely.

Guns aren't necessarily more innately lethal than knives, at least in terms of the wounds they can make. But guns have range, and guns are much easier to learn to use effectively. So glad this kid had only a knife (and I assume no training on how to fight with one).

[barbtries]

8. how can it be

that the NRA and their flock continue to ignore reality, and they run the country?
it makes me sad.

[Heidi]

13. Their guns are more important than our kids.

That's how it can be.

[barbtries]

16. yeah.

i don't get that but it does appear to be the case.

[Paladin]

18. +1. They'll deny it, but it's the truth. (nt)

[beevul]

22. Nobody is stopping anyone from non-gun control measures to stop gun violence.

Nobody is stopping anyone from non-gun control measures to stop gun violence.

You guys just aren't interested in them.

The only people that think that "guns are more important than our kids" are the people that see only one versus the other.

And that isn't the pro-gun folks, its the "more gun control" folks.

It is an irrefutable truth.

[perdita9]

12. If a gun had been involved, things would have been worse...

...For one thing, the NRA would be fundraising off the tragedy

[Sissyk]

21. That's great news!

[etherealtruth]

23. A bit of good news to accompany the tragedy n/t