[marktwain]

Good information for the "gun control" debate.

[shhrubbery!]

A man wielding "a two-foot ornamental blade" on the Staten Island Ferry hacked 2 persons to death, and wounded 9, back in 1986.

Here is the NYT's story. It must have killed them to have to report that a retired policeman --who happened to be on board and was carrying a gun-- stopped the murderer from killing many more...

MAN WITH SWORD KILLS 2 AND WOUNDS 9 ON S.I. FERRY
By ROBERT D. McFADDEN Published: July 8, 1986

A homeless Cuban refugee, chanting and apparently deranged, went on a rampage with a sword aboard a Staten Island ferryboat yesterday and killed two people and wounded nine others before being subdued by a retired police officer at gunpoint.

Wielding a two-foot ornamental blade apparently purchased in Times Square, the assailant pursued, hacked and stabbed victims on two decks of the rumbling, 310-foot ferry, the Samuel I. Newhouse, at about 8:45 A.M. as the boat passed the Statue of Liberty, bound from Manhattan to Staten Island.

As passengers shrieked and fled in pandemonium that went on for nearly five minutes, the assailant was stabbing another victim on the top deck when the 55-year-old retired officer, Edward del Pino, who lives on Staten Island and carries a gun for a part-time job as a security guard in Manhattan, abruptly confronted him.

''Drop it!'' Mr. del Pino shouted, and fired a warning shot. He then ordered the disarmed man to lie on a bench, pointed his chrome-plated .38-caliber revolver directly at the assailant's face and warned: ''You move and you're dead!''

The suspect - who was seized by the police as the boat drew into St. George Terminal and ambulances rushed victims to two Staten Island hospitals -was identified as Juan J. Gonzalez, 43 years old, a homeless man who came to the United States in the 1977 boatlift of refugees from Mariel*, Cuba, and has sometimes stayed at shelters in New York City... [*emphasis and asterisk mine - the "Mariel boatlift" refers to Jimmah Carter's "humanitarian" acceptance of a boatload of criminal immigrants into the USA - shhrub]

- rest of the article here

[Jeff Chandler]

In late 2005 the city of San Francisco enacted a total ban on the manufacture, sale, transfer or distribution of firearms or ammunition in San Francisco, as well as a ban on the possession of handguns within the city by San Francisco residents. The law was later struck down in court. Can any Freeper guess the name of the law? (Remember: this is San Francisco, LOL!)

[dznutz]

Another Holmes in the 1890's, H.H. Holmes, dispatched many in his murder castle on the south side of Chicago in the Englewood neighborhood. weird&hauntedchicago The book DEPRAVED, written by Harold Schechter calls Holmes Americas first serial killer. DEPRAVED

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This was on Slate?

There must be something in my water.

[WorkingClassFilth]

Wasn’t there a killer in the 20’s or 30’s who killed, like, 50 with dynamite? Seems to me he attacked a school or something similar.

[tet68]

Let us not forget that in the end of Homer’s epic poem
when Odysseus finally returns home after ten years, he
finds his house filled with suitors for his wife’s hand
who have been eating and drinking the fruits of his
estate, he proceeds to draw and string his bow,
shoot through many axeheads then to slaughter them
all with the help of his son.

Poetic definitely.

[yldstrk]

I don’t think Ivan the terrible or Vlad the Impaler had any trouble.

[Cyber Liberty]

Jack the Ripper probably never saw a gun. Explosives were also pretty common.

Actually, a pistol or rifle or even a shotgun would be poor weapons of choice to someone out to kill a lot of people. We’ve seen what can be done with the clever application of box-cutters.