Up to 20 injured in Pennsylvania school stabbing

AP via NY Post ^ | April 9, 2014 | AP

[lbryce]

An official says four students were believed to be seriously injured at a high school near Pittsburgh, where a student with a knife stabbed or slashed others, injuring as many as 20.

Westmoreland County emergency management spokesman Dan Stevens says not all of the 20 injured were cut by the knife, though most were. Some suffered scrapes and cuts in the mayhem that ensued at Franklin Regional High School in Murrysville on Wednesday morning.-

[2harddrive]

When knives are outlawed, only outlaws will have knives.
When knives are outlawed.....I’ll be an outlaw!

[2harddrive]

As a result of this cruel attack in a neighboring state, New York Governor Cuomo “the Homo” has just proposed the Secure Assault Knifes Everywhere (SAKE) Act.

[Clump]

Actually this incident proves NOT that the gun free zone kept a less deadly weapon out, but rather that the GFZ prevented the adults from protecting 20 plus kids from stab wounds.
The key here is that the GFZ made everyone a sitting duck.
So much that one deranged person with a knife was able to do so much damage.
Don’t let the gun controllers spin this.
Their position doesn’t hold up to simple logic.

[optiguy]

You forgot military bases.

[blueplum]

Fox reporting this kid rampaged for almost an hour before a security guard tackled him. Had two knives. Had someone in authority had a gun, the rampage would have lasted about 8 seconds flat.

[demshateGod]

Did it have a pistol grip?

[PA Engineer]

Fox reporting this kid rampaged for almost an hour before a security guard tackled him. Had two knives. Had someone in authority had a gun, the rampage would have lasted about 8 seconds flat.

Not true. It took minutes before the student was taken down by a student, principal and LEO.

This was the beginning of school when the halls are chaotic. The young man brought two large kitchen knives from home and rampaged. The incident took place on the first floor in the science wing.

Writing from Murrysville.

[blueplum]

thanks PA.

[cycjec]

the score on the opposite (Constitutional) side of the
“gun control” debate is higher.

[Cruz_West_Paul2016]

does this mean the left will demand congress create new legislation requiring all white people need to show ID before buying a kitchen/chop knife or kitchen knife sets at Wal-Mart?

[Bringbackthedraft]

I really don’t understand why he was able to cause all the injuries. What have we done to our children that in their teen years they don’t know how to fight back and protect themselves?? My God, yes he had knives, but he was in a classroom, 20+ students, and no one thought to use a “CHAIR”??!!! Have we as individuals refused to fight in fear of law suits? America, wake up, we are headed down the sewer. Had this occurred in my time as a HS student, he would have ended up in traction with feeding tubes, and it would have been clipped in the bud, as they say.

[PA Engineer]

I really don’t understand why he was able to cause all the injuries. What have we done to our children that in their teen years they don’t know how to fight back and protect themselves?? My God, yes he had knives, but he was in a classroom, 20+ students, and no one thought to use a “CHAIR”??!!! Have we as individuals refused to fight in fear of law suits? America, wake up, we are headed down the sewer. Had this occurred in my time as a HS student, he would have ended up in traction with feeding tubes, and it would have been clipped in the bud, as they say.

Do you remember your days in High School? This took place while all the students were heading to home room. Remember how chaotic it was as you were getting your books from the locker and heading to class?

This did not occur in a single classroom. The student ran down the hall in the science wing, stabbing in a rampage. The incident was over in minutes when a student, vice-principal and LEO took him down and subdued him.

Many students behaved heroically, including one who shielded a young girl with his arm and then pulled the fire alarm. Some students did not know they were even stabbed.

The entire incident was recorded on 911 and from the moment of stabbing to dust off by Life Flight was less than 30 minutes. Three students were in surgery in 45 minutes. This is why there were no deaths, however one student is still touch and go.

Our LEOs and First Responders are top notch and behaved like the professionals they are by securing the scene, triaging, stabilizing and transporting the injured to our trauma centers. This is a pretty good summary article:

IDENTIFIED: Student, 16, 'who left TWENTY injured, five critically, after stabbing spree with two knives' at Pennsylvania high school

There is no easy way to compartmentalize this. A young man with premeditation brought two kitchen knives into school with the intent on committing mass casualties. He came from a good family, a good neighborhood, had friends and was not a loner.

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

Yeah...I can’t wait to hear all the rhetoric over that. I won’t hold my breath.

[starvosan]

“Fox reporting this kid rampaged for almost an hour before a security guard tackled him.”

Very curious. Now they are saying it was over in five minutes. Here’s another earlier account saying it went on far longer:

http://www.leaderpost.com/news/Student+dressed+black+stabs+half+hour+rampage+school/9720896/story.html
The 16-year-old suspect..., was said to have lashed out at passersby in a corridor and classrooms during a half-hour rampage....

Is this the real reason the casualty count was so high?