I really don’t understand why he was able to cause all the injuries. What have we done to our children that in their teen years they don’t know how to fight back and protect themselves?? My God, yes he had knives, but he was in a classroom, 20+ students, and no one thought to use a “CHAIR”??!!! Have we as individuals refused to fight in fear of law suits? America, wake up, we are headed down the sewer. Had this occurred in my time as a HS student, he would have ended up in traction with feeding tubes, and it would have been clipped in the bud, as they say.
I really don’t understand why he was able to cause all the injuries. What have we done to our children that in their teen years they don’t know how to fight back and protect themselves?? My God, yes he had knives, but he was in a classroom, 20+ students, and no one thought to use a “CHAIR”??!!! Have we as individuals refused to fight in fear of law suits? America, wake up, we are headed down the sewer. Had this occurred in my time as a HS student, he would have ended up in traction with feeding tubes, and it would have been clipped in the bud, as they say.
Do you remember your days in High School? This took place while all the students were heading to home room. Remember how chaotic it was as you were getting your books from the locker and heading to class?
This did not occur in a single classroom. The student ran down the hall in the science wing, stabbing in a rampage. The incident was over in minutes when a student, vice-principal and LEO took him down and subdued him.
Many students behaved heroically, including one who shielded a young girl with his arm and then pulled the fire alarm. Some students did not know they were even stabbed.
The entire incident was recorded on 911 and from the moment of stabbing to dust off by Life Flight was less than 30 minutes. Three students were in surgery in 45 minutes. This is why there were no deaths, however one student is still touch and go.
Our LEOs and First Responders are top notch and behaved like the professionals they are by securing the scene, triaging, stabilizing and transporting the injured to our trauma centers. This is a pretty good summary article:
IDENTIFIED: Student, 16, 'who left TWENTY injured, five critically, after stabbing spree with two knives' at Pennsylvania high school
There is no easy way to compartmentalize this. A young man with premeditation brought two kitchen knives into school with the intent on committing mass casualties. He came from a good family, a good neighborhood, had friends and was not a loner.