Posted on 04/09/2014 8:35:52 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Twenty-one were stabbed in a Pennsylvania school rampage Wednesday, but all are expected to liveand one even took a selfie. Think how different the toll would have been with bullets.
The dead take no selfies.
So there might well never have been the remarkable selfie that 16-year-old Nate Scimio took after his heroism at Franklin Regional High School if he had faced a gun rather than two knives on Wednesday morning.
In all, Scimio and 19 other students, along with one staff member, were stabbed when a sophomore allegedly stormed through the school in Murrysville, Pennsylvania. Three students were critically injured.
One, a girl, was saved from bleeding to death when a classmate kept paper towels pressed against her wound. Another, a 17-year-old boy, was stabbed with such savagery that the wound in his abdomen was 2 inches wide and extended almost to his spine. The blade pierced his liver and diaphragm, missing his heart and aorta by a fraction of an inch. He was on life support after emergency surgery, but doctors remained hopeful he would survive.
And, as of the end of the day, none of the 21 victims had died.....
(Excerpt) Read more at thedailybeast.com ...
A better close in weapon is an old fashioned tomahawk preferably backed up by a Bowie knife or as a second choice would be a Roman Gladius. Its thrusting ability coupled with its width makes it extremely lethal.
Thanks.
Thank you. I knew “halyard” was not quite right but did not know the right word either.
Bon appétit!
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