15-year-old dead, 16-year-old wounded in NYC school stabbing

[sarisataka]

15-year-old dead, 16-year-old wounded in NYC school stabbing

Police say an 18-year-old man attacked two fellow students inside a New York City school, fatally stabbing a 15-year-old boy and critically injuring a 16-year-old boy.

The attack happened Wednesday on the fifth floor of the Urban Assembly School for Wildlife Conservation, a middle and high school in the Bronx. It's located in a building that also houses a public elementary school.

Investigators say the 18-year-old has been taken into custody and they are investigating whether the teen had been bullied.

Police say a weapon was recovered.

http://www.wbng.com/story/36465871/1-teen-dead-1-injured-in-nyc-school-stabbing

[gilbert sullivan]

1. We must work for better knife control.

[Aristus]

2. ***DING-DING-DING!***

We have a winner!

I was wondering how long it was going to take before a "knife control" advocate would show up.

If ever there was false equivalence in public debate, this is it.

If the dude had had a gun, it would be "15 dead, 8 wounded in NYC school shooting".

But yeah, we'll pretend it's all the same...

[BainsBane]

4. If he'd used an AR-15

The death toll would have been far higher. But then you know that.

[gilbert sullivan]

7. And if he had used an atomic bomb...

etc etc etc

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

11. That's moronic, idotic, etc, etc, etc.... nt

[Squinch]

5. How sad that this is how you respond to such a terrible tragedy.

[Nevernose]

9. You're proposing we arm all 15 year olds

In public schools?

[gilbert sullivan]

10. I must be getting senile, I can't recall ever suggesting that.

Or did you just try to attribute idiocy to me with no evidence? What kind of 'gun control' do you think will keep alreaday existing guns out of the hands of thugs, terrorists and criminals? I will gladly sign on to your idea one hundred percent!

[Squinch]

12. No evidence? I wouldn't say that.

[WhiskeyGrinder]

3. Heartbreaking. Here's hoping everyone gets the help they need.