Posted on 12/10/2013 8:48:09 AM PST by Morgana
MARSHALL (AP) - Three people have been hurt in a hatchet attack at a Wal-Mart in East Texas and police arrested a transient on assault charges.
Marshall police Detective Sonya Johnson said Monday that Christopher Hamilton of Crawford, Ark., allegedly had the hatchet with him when entering the store. Two female workers and a male shopper were attacked early Sunday.
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Almost a sword ping?
Hatchet Control, Now!
Congress must IMMEDIATELY move to ban Walmarts./s
Hmmm...bad stuff, getting attacked by a hatchet. Ask my brother, he knows! ‘Course, we were only 5 and 7 at the time...and I didn’t really hit him all that hard...
Playing “Cowboys and Indians” as children?
Hey, Walmart: Maybe you shouldn’t be ejecting Open Carry customers, hmmmmMMMMMMMMMM???
Sounds like the transient guy was just axing for help.
Poor customer service. They ignore him when he said, “Let me ax you sumpin’.....”
I made my once a year trip to the local Wally World yesterday, I was packing.
You sound like someone I knew years ago.
His older brother put his finger on a log and dared him to cut it off with a hatchet.
Older brother lost that dare.
I would say based on what Ive read that this is probably another example of the broken mental health system. A local woman here just won a $300,000 settlement after being attacked and hurt in front of her 6 y/o. The assailant in this case had a long history, including self-medication with meth. Even his own father had warned the authorities. (Sound familiar? Families of mental patients are at a disadvantage. They can’t do much.) In Seattle over the past 10 or 15 years, they’ve had scenarios like this with every conceivable kind of weapon. Sometimes the body count is fairly high, as in the Cafe Racer case, other times victims are merely injured. A woman was stabbed to death on New Year’s Eve 2007 a block from my apt. in Seattle. He openly admitted that it was random, that she was “in the wrong place at the wrong time.” It could have been any unarmed person in that neighborhood and everybody knows it. I know that a certain number of bad things will happen and can’t be prevented, but I really think that there are improvements that need to be made in mental health laws. I know that civil libertarians are afraid of abuses in involuntary commitment and I know that’s a serious concern but there has to be a better way than what were doing now. The book that opened my eyes on the history of this is called Madness in the Streets. I forget the author.
I used to shop at this Wal-Mart when we lived in Marshall. It was one of the cleanest and better managed Wal-Marts I have shopped at.
Rael Jean Isaac is the author of Madness in The Streets. I don’t agree with her on everything. She’s actually an apologist for lobotomies and electroshock therapy. I don’t agree with that, but she makes some other good points, and explains some of the cultural influences, such as popular books and movies that helped get us to this point. She believes its basically part if the legacy of the 60s.
When hatchets are outlawed, only outlaws will have hatchets.
Well, the victim in the hatchet attack in the Capitol Hill neighborhood of Seattle a few years ago died. The ironic thing in this one is that both guys were mental patients. But the victim was taking his meds, minding his business and behaving himself and the other guy wasn’t. Most hatchets I know of are the kind of thing people take camping and stuff and you could do some damage, especially if its sharp, but even if it isn’t. They’re fairly heavy, for one thing.
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