Stabbing in Pittsburgh...

[The Midnight]

A ban is administrative. There is nothing that says you have to install metal detectors to implement a ban on anything.

The ban won't have much "teeth" then will it if kids can still conceal it.

 

[LogGrad98]

The ban won't have much "teeth" then will it if kids can still conceal it.

Umm...that's kind of the point of the discussion.

 

[Willie]

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.

 

[The Midnight]

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.

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!!!

 

[VINYLONE]

We need to give everyone guns.

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

Murika

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.