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Stabbing in Pittsburgh...

Where is the Ban Kitchen Knives lobby when you need it?
 
One Brow said:
How many people died?
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That's the tipping point on whether something should be banned? Only if there are deaths?

I found this paragraph in the article telling:

Twenty students and a security officer at Franklin Regional Senior High School were either stabbed or slashed in the attack, Westmoreland County District Attorney John Peck told reporters.
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I wonder if that "security officer" was armed. I'm guessing not.
 
VINYLONE said:
That's the tipping point on whether something should be banned? Only if there are deaths?

I found this paragraph in the article telling:



I wonder if that "security officer" was armed. I'm guessing not.
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Depends on whether you are for or against the item in question.
 
VINYLONE said:
That's the tipping point on whether something should be banned? Only if there are deaths?
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If you mean should there be no knives in school, I would agree that a knife has no use in a school outside of very specific places, and I don't see an issue banning them in other places.

In terms of banning kitchen knives, then yes, you have to weigh the benefits vs. the costs before deciding to ban something.
 
I would be willing to bet that knives in the possession of students are already banned at that school. They have been at every school my kids attended. A ban doesn't do much to prevent them from bringing the item anyway. How many high schools in america have banned weed? In what percentage of high schools in america do you think you could find some weed?
 
LogGrad98 said:
I would be willing to bet that knives in the possession of students are already banned at that school. They have been at every school my kids attended. A ban doesn't do much to prevent them from bringing the item anyway. How many high schools in america have banned weed? In what percentage of high schools in america do you think you could find some weed?
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Wonder how the kid got it through the metal detector then if the knife is in fact banned?
 
Hotttnickkk said:
Wonder how the kid got it through the metal detector then if the knife is in fact banned?
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A ban is administrative. There is nothing that says you have to install metal detectors to implement a ban on anything.
 
This is my first post, but I'm a long-time reader of the General Discussion forum. I knew that a thread started by Hotttnickkk, and one receiving the keen participation of One Brow, would have all the heart and reason a man could hope for. I'm happy to be sharing and participating. Hotttnickkk seems to always do his best to think with a soft and kind touch, and One Brow is admirably committed to a widely distributed justice.

Now, as for the issue at hand, I've always enjoyed carrying around a four-inch blade. It's extremely useful in my work and hobbying. It would be very inconvenient if I lived in a society that prohibited easy access to this tool. I no longer live in one of America's larger cities, and I understand how those folks can feel different anxieties, but I'd rather address the underlying issues of economic justice which propel voilence than ban knives.

Nice to meet you guys.
 
Willie said:
This is my first post, but I'm a long-time reader of the General Discussion forum. I knew that a thread started by Hotttnickkk, and one receiving the keen participation of One Brow, would have all the heart and reason a man could hope for. I'm happy to be sharing and participating. Hotttnickkk seems to always do his best to think with a soft and kind touch, and One Brow is admirably committed to a widely distributed justice.

Now, as for the issue at hand, I've always enjoyed carrying around a four-inch blade. It's extremely useful in my work and hobbying. It would be very inconvenient if I lived in a society that prohibited easy access to this tool. I no longer live in one of America's larger cities, and I understand how those folks can feel different anxieties, but I'd rather address the underlying issues of economic justice which propel voilence than ban knives.

Nice to meet you guys.
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LoL.. what an entrance!!! Here let me congratulate and welcome you to our family here at Jazzfanz with a pos rep.


Look forward to your contributions!!!
 
The Thriller said:
We need to give everyone guns.

If teachers had guns then nothing had would ever happen ever.

Murika
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Worst idea ever. You give "everyone" guns and you're putting firearms into the hands of people that want nothing to do with them and who have neither the familiarity or comfortability that would allow any sort of efficient defensive gun use.

As far as teachers go, the same rule applies. You allow those that want them to have them. You DO NOT force firearms on people.

Just the other day there was another stabbing spree. If these continue, should there be a knife ban?

https://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2014/04/15/calgary-stabbing-university_n_5152386.html

US News with their recent article seems to get it:

https://www.usnews.com/news/article...shows-school-vulnerability-safety-expert-says

In the last 12 months, there have been at least 10 reported stabbings at schools across the country. Most recently, on March 26, a 19-year-old student stabbed another at Cambridge Rindge and Latin School, a public high school in Cambridge, Mass. A day before that, in Ontario, Calif., a 16-year-old student stabbed another student at Valley View High School, resulting in three local schools being placed on lockdown.

And in other places of the world – such as China, where gun control laws are much stricter than the United States – mass stabbings appear to be a more common form of school attacks. On Dec. 14, 2012, just hours before gunman Adam Lanza opened fire in a Connecticut elementary school and killed 26 individuals, a 36-year-old man in the Chinese village of Chenpeng stabbed 22 elementary school children and one elderly woman.
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