Our kids get lined up for potential target practice every day they go to school.
Posted on 04/09/2014 12:36:48 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Armed with two knives, a 16-year-old student at Franklin Regional High School in Murraysville, Pennsylvania attacked his classmates this morning. Four students are in critical condition, while the suspect is in custody — after having been tackled by an assistant principal to end the attack:
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Multiple people were stabbed at a high school in the suburbs east of Pittsburgh, officials said.
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.
The FBI also responded to the scene, but are emphasizing that they are in a support role only. This will be a local investigation.
The number of potential victims might have been higher, but a quick-thinking student hit the fire alarm. Another saved one of the severely-wounded victims by staying with her and keeping pressure on the injury to keep her from bleeding out:
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Alyssa Finch, who said she is a student at Franklin Regional High School, told ABC News a fellow student pulled the fire alarm during the stabbing “because he knew what was happening … and he wanted the people to get out.”
KTLA in Los Angeles picked up on the story of the assistant principal’s action:
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At Least 20 Students Injured in Pennsylvania High School Stabbing
WTAE has raw video of the suspect:
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ABC continued its coverage with updates on medical treatment for the victims. All eight of the seriously wounded will need surgery, and three of them needed it immediately:
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Pray for the victims. If readers want to help, one way would be to contact your local Red Cross for blood donations, or contributions.
“dreamy” as in that wide-eyed, stunned, deer-in-the-headlights look that most teens have?
When one pulls a fire alarm, doesn’t ones hand resemble a gun shape?
Once again another nut going hunting in the liberal created fish in a barrel because he knows nobody is going to shoot at him. That’s why they do this, they flip out on a power trip. Let’s see them do it though with armed guards and teachers walking around. Our low life scum sucking liberal politicians get taxpayer supported 24 hour armed guards but not our kids. Our kids get lined up for potential target practice every day they go to school.
Hope a few of those injured were hurt fighting their way to the front of the line to kick the crap out of this punk.
No... what you do is what should have been done for years in these type situations i.e., Columbine, Aurora Theater shooting, etc. They were caught on camera or in the act.. No Trial, No waste of millions on a court trial, years of bullshit delays, housing and feeding the scum and everything else that’s wasted on these type POS.
Review the video or if you caught them in the act you kill him right there on the spot. I don’t give a damn why he did it, don’t care about his family life, his upbringing, any reasons or excuses the left can come with or anything else, just kill him and it’s over.
KNIFE CONTROL..!!! So a whack job goes on a stabbing rampage that lasted what..20+ minutes, would have been nice if someone at the school had a gun to take out the bad guy but I forgot, its a gun free zone, apparently its also a knife free zone too
schools are already a gun free zone.
now if this putz kid would have pointed his finger at someone they’d have suspended or expelled him.
our public indoctrination centers (”schools”) are frigging insane asylums. they teach the kids they’re animals. they teach good and bad are just relative subjective preferences. they teach there’s no God. they teach them sex techniques. they encourage homosexuality. they do everything but teach them facts and skills to be successful as adults. many do learn a lot despite the teachers and administrators.
what do we expect? we ought to be surprised this isn’t a daily occurrence at most of the public schools.
The only way to ban crime is to ban people.
KDKA has confirmed that 16-year-old Alex Hribal is the suspect arrested for the stabbings. He is a sophomore at the high school.
photo at link:
Ban knives, pens, pencils, protractors, toothpicks, nail clippers.
Maybe plastic bubbles ought to be mandatory by law.
Twitter #KDKA
God help us if they ever ban ‘nice racks’!
Two knives eh? Somehow a scene from the movie DEAD ALIVE (BRAINDEAD) popped into my mind.
Oh, isn’t the school a knife free zone? took 20 to get knifed before someone stepped up to the plate! SMH
It’s on the videos at the link. He’s a white boy.
What? No wall-to-wall coverage?
No calls in Congress to pass knife control laws?
Harry Reid not blaming the NKA (National Knife Association)?
Michelle Obama not calling for finger foods only in all school cafeterias?
Not being flippant as I know 2 are in critical condition It had to be a traumatic situation for the students.
It does prove a major point. These situations are not about weapons.
Has the type of knife been released? I ask because I did hear Rod What’s-his-name say now the authorities will want to know how the student was able to get the weapon on to school property.
I see this as an important lesson to gun users. Knives are a superb complement to having a gun, especially in a close quarters situation, in the defense or the offense.
In the trench warfare of World War I, soldiers quickly realized that the ideal weapons for fighting in trenches are a pistol in one hand, and a trench knife in the other. If the enemy is at a stand off distance, use the gun. If they are in your face, the knife is better.
And being indoors is little different from a trench with a ceiling.
Importantly, movement outdoors in a riot, mob, or “wilding” is much the same. Instead of walls, you are surrounded with bodies. Some are the enemy and some are indifferent.
But if the mob turns on you, you have very effective stand off distance with them, and might even change the flow of the mob away from you, with a pistol and a knife.
Goin' to Black Mountain with my saber and my gun;
Cut you if you stand, shoot you if you run.
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