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Mass stabbing at US school.

You say that as if the anti-gunners wouldn't be hoppin' around like a one legged cat trying to bury **** on a frozen pond, had this been a shooting.

Actually, It seems to me the rabid reactions have faded after seeing there was no possible way they would mange to make headway. Little organized anger has occurred since Newtown, regardless of the continued shootings.

The NRA has completely won this battle.
 
15 years of Ritalin?

:shrug: Who knows? I do know of kids who are put on that stuff in elementary school. Indeed one of my neighbors kids who isn't even in kindergarten yet is on some sort of drug. Don't know what it is specifically but still.... :2sick1: :screwy
 
Thanks...I am just catching up on the story.

Lots to see out there. It's a media frenzy.

Here's some more detail:

Emergency management spokesman Dan Stevens said four students were believed to be seriously injured when a student with a knife stabbed or slashed others, injuring as many as 20.

Stevens said not all of the 20 injured were cut by the knife, though most were. Some suffered scrapes and cuts in the mayhem that ensued at Franklin Regional High School on Wednesday morning. Stevens says it doesn't appear any students suffered life-threatening injuries.

While Stevens said all the injured are between 14 and 17 years old, hospital officials told CBS Pittsburgh the patients they were taking in from the incident range from 15 to 60 years old.

 
Actually, It seems to me the rabid reactions have faded after seeing there was no possible way they would mange to make headway. Little organized anger has occurred since Newtown, regardless of the continued shootings.

The NRA has completely won this battle.

No organized anger since Newtown? :lamo
 
Very interesting points here, and yes there does seem to be a connection, or at least some commonality.

I know next to nothing about mind altering meds. Can they bring about homicidal thoughts?

Yes, and suicidal thoughts.

 
Actually, It seems to me the rabid reactions have faded after seeing there was no possible way they would mange to make headway. Little organized anger has occurred since Newtown, regardless of the continued shootings.

The NRA has completely won this battle.

if that were true we wouldn't have gun free zone, or anti gun ninnies calling for more gun control or bragging that their guns are "registered" would we?
 
I'm not sure whether it is more common, or just more widely reported. Perhaps it is a bit of both. It could be that the wide reporting encourages other unstable people do copycat.

There could be a correlation with the over 40% of births outside of marriage, too. Raising kids alone was never easy, and the irresponsible are likely to do an even poorer job of it than are the divorced and widowed. Has anyone looked into the number of youthful killers who were raised in stable two parent families?

I often think there is a correlation to this as well.

Even Lanza, while having 2 seemingly successful parents, also had 2 parents who didn't live together.

I don't recall the back story to the Columbine killers' families. Were their homes broken do you remember?

It could have an impact, but I still think this stabber in PA was probably some sort of mentally ill.
 
I often think there is a correlation to this as well.

Even Lanza, while having 2 seemingly successful parents, also had 2 parents who didn't live together.

I don't recall the back story to the Columbine killers' families. Were their homes broken do you remember?

It could have an impact, but I still think this stabber in PA was probably some sort of mentally ill.

The worst part about Lanza is that everyone knew something was wrong with him, but nothing was done. No excuse for that.
 
The question we should be asking, is if the kid was on antidepressants?
This seems to be one of the common threads in these types of attacks.
We should also look at the time line, if this attack was done in 60 seconds, that's one thing,
but if this went on for several minuets, we should question what kind of sheep we are raising?
 
No organized anger since Newtown? :lamo

I would be interested in your data concerning any continuation of this being increased or continued.
 
Dr's are reporting that most of the stab wounds were to the right flank of the victims abdomens.

So the attacker apparently knew to go for the Liver, ( or he was left handed ) which is why many of the injuries were classified as life threatening.

Liver lacerations can cause acute and life threatening blood loss.
 
if that were true we wouldn't have gun free zone, or anti gun ninnies calling for more gun control or bragging that their guns are "registered" would we?

Am I to understand that legal guns, or opposition to illegal ones, and private entities utilizing their rights are to be taken as ANTI-GUN?


This seems a bit extreme.
 
Well that does it, time to ban people.

That is what the Obamacare contraception coverage is for. First they make it "free", then they make it mandatory.
 
I have zero knowledge of the accused...but these attempted mass killing's seem to be flourishing.

I put it down to crappy parenting as much as anything. Scratch a deeply disturbed criminal and more times then not you will find lousy parents.

Far, FAR too many lousy parents in this world that have no business having children is a gigantic problem that few seem to either be aware of or even care about.

Socially speaking, raising children should be considered a privilege...that few have the skills to properly undertake.

As it is, nobody seems to think twice when obviously troubled people have children. Like having a child will 'settle down' people.
What nonsense.
I truly believe that too many people look at children as diversions/goals/glorified pets instead of sentient human beings.
 
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"Mental health reform" has become the new cure-all mantra. All that will mean is more drugging kids.

The problem is lack of security at schools.
 
"Mental health reform" has become the new cure-all mantra. All that will mean is more drugging kids.

The problem is lack of security at schools.

That is most certainly part of the problem...yet far from the core. Todays youth have been coddled and released upon the world with no ethical education or moral compass, have grown up in a terribly violent world and told to fend for themselves.

How would any of react to this.....dog eat dog
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Sad but true.
 
At least there was no armed security at the school. That would be evil and would take money from salary raises for the school administrators.

Children's lives don't mean anything to school administrations. Their lives aren't worth $1 to protect. They are just a bothersome overpopulation herd to most of them.

This kid was obviously an amateur. Had he armed himself with a Bushmaster, like the kid in Connecticut, he could have had some real fun.
 
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