Breaking: stabbing at Lone Star College

[B2G]

1 arrest and 14 potential victims...hard to get firm data at the moment.

[B2G]

1. 14 victims and not one response

Amazing. If this were a shooting there would be 50 responses by now.

[mzmolly]

2. My thoughts are that a shooting would have rendered

far more victims. Got a link or something?

[TexasTowelie]

3. See LBN.

I posted links to a Houston TV station and the Houston Chronicle.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1014449094

[B2G]

6. With not one response n/t

[Electric Monk]

16. I bet Gabby Giffords (your choice of avatar) wishes Jared Loughner had only used a knife

I also suspect she would highly resent you using her for your avatar, considering this thread.

[mzmolly]

8. Where were all the Texans with guns, prepared to protect

the populace?

[B2G]

10. It's a college. It's a gun free zone.

I guess it's not the violence you care about, it's the method employed.

Got it.

[mzmolly]

13. Ahhhh. That may explain why the wacko in question didn't have a

gun?

Gun control regulation works, even in Texas.

[B2G]

4. Because 14 just isn't enough to get upset over

BTW, news outlets have upped the victim count from 8 to 14 since this article was posted.

http://abclocal.go.com/wtvd/story?section=news&id=9058387

[mzmolly]

5. Yes. That's what I said.

12-14 "injured" beats 50 dead, dontcha' think?

[B2G]

7. Stone. Cold.

[mzmolly]

9. Hard. Fact.

eom

Probably time to take Gabby Giffords out of the ol' avatar given your desire to compare knives with guns?

[B2G]

12. My avatar is none of your goddamn business

and oh by the way

http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2013/04/08/gabby-giffords-still-loves-gun-culture/?hpt=hp_c4

[mzmolly]

15. It's my business if I can see it.

I'm not 'fooled' by your photo of Ms. Giffords, personally.

[Electric Monk]

19. We can send alerts on inappropriate avatars, so I just did. You can too, if you like.

I think it's just sick for a gun nut to choose her for their avatar. Almost like they approved of her shooting.

[mzmolly]

20. I agree.

Thank you.

[B2G]

24. You are sick

I approved of her shooting? Consider yourself alerted right back.

[ScreamingMeemie]

29. You will lose your alert privileges for 24 hours over that...

I hope it was worth it.

[ScreamingMeemie]

27. That number (I live right around the corner from campus) keeps fluctuating.

The level of misinformation on this is staggering.

There is a high school on-campus at Lone Star. My son's ex-girlfriend goes there. Her mother is posting info via text as she receives it, and is stunned by how utterly stupid the news media is being.

[B2G]

32. They always are

News conference says 14 but not all transported to the hospital. 2 in critical condition.

[ScreamingMeemie]

34. 2 refused treatment. 11 were taken to area hospitals.

6 lifeflighted to Memorial Hermann in the Texas Med Center downtown. The "news" here goes from 11 to 15, and again to 14...with 4-6-7 lifeflighted.

[B2G]

39. I would imagine it's pretty chaotic

And you're probably getting better news that the rest of us being local.

[Erose999]

18. Less fatalities, anyway.

[mzmolly]

21. Indeed. Likely

both.

[liberal N proud]

33. Maybe background checks stopped the assailant from getting a gun

Oh, wait, that would be against civil rights.

[B2G]

35. Some gun owners are not against universal background checks

But do go on.

[liberal N proud]

37. I know that, there is a commercial here in Ohio with a gun owner calling for checks

But since I must go on, My point: the NRA is decrying them.

[B2G]

38. The problem is that DU paints gun owners with the same brush

We're all rabid NRA backers.

My family owns guns. We own them legally and are responsible. We do not belong to the NRA. Yet we're demonized here.

[mzmolly]

42. You painted a self portrait.

eom

[99Forever]

11. 14 victims and how many deaths?

Does not exactly make a great case for the gun culture, does it?

Gun culture is a mental illness.

[BainsBane]

14. there would also be more casualties

[Comrade_McKenzie]

17. If an assault rifle had been utilized, we'd be talking about a death toll...

Anyone that tries to deny that isn't worth the energy expended in arguing.

[sarisataka]

22. The question has been posed previously...

do people care about all violence or just gun violence? I will not draw a conclusion just yet.

I have seen at least one conspiracy theory comment so far.

Hopefully the four who have been airlifted will all survive and the other eleven will recover. Thankfully this person did not use a gun as it is possible there could already be deaths; but even better if such incidents do not happen with any weapon.

[mac56]

23. There's nothing inconsistent about grieving this violent act

and yet, being thankful that it wasn't MORE violent than it was.

It's not an either-or situation.

[sarisataka]

26. Agreed it would not be inconsistent

though the outpouring of grief and sympathy is muted compared to comments on a related issue...

[mac56]

28. Too vague.

To what related issue do you refer?

[sarisataka]

30. It seems there is greater concern

that this will negatively affect the gun control debate than that there are multiple stabbing victims. Details are contradictory but it sounds like some may be life threatening.

[mac56]

36. I understand your point

and, but for a few exceptions, I'm not seeing what you see.

Maybe we're reading different threads.

[Liberal_in_LA]

25. gun people will use this incident as an excuse to oppose gun laws

[ScreamingMeemie]

31. Picture of only (ONLY) suspect on ground at scene...

[MFM008]

40. i wonder

if he was rejected for gun ownership. I find this hard to believe in TX but still.

[ScreamingMeemie]

41. Update:

UPDATE: Latest details on Lone Star College campus stabbing from Harris Co. Sheriff Adrian Garcia: Suspect is a 21-year-old white male student; 2 of 14 victims in critical condition; video evidence indicates no additional suspects for now; rest of the student body is safe; and the entire campus is still being searched for evidence.

http://ow.ly/jTMCw