The 9/11 hijackers used them and now there has been a stabbing in Texas using box cutters or X-Acto knives. We doubt that we will hear the gun grabbers start to include these weapons in their confiscation. It does not meet their "agenda" which is to remove guns from Americans. Those who die or hurt by other items just don't make the sensational news.
This story should be about idiots who kill or try to kill others and not the weapon they might use. It will provoke some to minimize the story as no one died. Facts be damned, it is the end goal that counts. However, those whose goals are different from ours, will ignore the facts and the story.
Conservative Tom
By Dylan Stableford, Yahoo! News | The Lookout – Tue, Apr 9, 2013
A stabbing victim is loaded into a helicopter on the Lone Star College CyFair campus. (Reuters)
This story should be about idiots who kill or try to kill others and not the weapon they might use. It will provoke some to minimize the story as no one died. Facts be damned, it is the end goal that counts. However, those whose goals are different from ours, will ignore the facts and the story.
Conservative Tom
Lone Star College stabbing: At least 14 wounded, suspect in custody
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A stabbing victim is loaded into a helicopter on the Lone Star College CyFair campus. (Reuters)
At least 14 people were wounded in an apparent mass stabbing at Lone Star College's CyFair campus in Cypress, Texas, on Tuesday morning.
The suspect, a white male armed with what one witness described as an X-Acto knife, was detained, police said. The suspect, believed to be 21, was enrolled at the school.
Harris County Sheriff Adrian Garcia said police received a 911 call at 11:12 a.m. local time reporting a white male "on the loose stabbing people."
The school was placed on lockdown.
"Seek shelter now," Lone Star College's Twitter feed warned Tuesday afternoon. "If away, stay away."
The incident occurred near and around the school's Health Science Center and remains an active crime scene, Garcia said.
"Buildings are still being searched," he added.
Four victims were transported by helicopter with serious injuries "consistent with laceration," a spokesman for the Harris County Sheriff's Office said. Two others were taken by ambulance to a local trauma center.
Two of those victims are in critical condition, he said. Four are in fair condition. Others victims were treated for minor injuries, and two refused treatment, Garcia said.
One witness told CNN that the stabber was hearing impaired.
An announcement was made over loudspeakers warning students to seek shelter. "This is an emergency," the announcement said, according to KHOU-TV. "Everybody stay inside of your rooms. Do not leave your rooms."
An alert issued on the school's website indicated that "another suspect may possibly be at large." But Garcia said surveillance video reviewed by police indicated there was one "and only one" suspect.
An Instagram user who said he helped apprehend the stabber posted a photo of a man face down on the ground with a backpack. He said the man had stabbed five people, including two girls in the cheek. "Everyone ran the other way ... ," he said. "Me and this kid got em." #copsaretooslow
Police would not confirm the exact weapon used, but said no firearms were found at the scene.
The campus was evacuated, Vice Chancellor Randy Key told reporters, and the college will remain closed for the remainder of the day.
In January, three people were wounded in a shooting at Lone Star College's North Harris campus near Houston. More than 90,000 students attend classes across the Lone Star College system's six campuses.
"Facts be damned, it is the end goal that counts."
ReplyDeleteWell, not to the victims. They'd rather come out alive than dead. If this guy had that bump-fire rifle instead of a box cutter, there would have been 14 dead bodies in the parking lot.
I like to see the mass murderer fail in his goal, and the weapon used has a lot to do with his success rate. That is one of your facts "be damned".
--David