JimBowie1958
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If the knife weilder has training in how to make lethal wounds that medics c ant close by simply applying pressure and the victims would likely bleed out before arriving at a hospital, then you have greater lethality of said knife attacks. That kind of training is not common in the US, but is over seas and will likely arrive here as well. In fact it already is here among older veterans who simply dont talk about it.
"It's difficult to quantify the exact number of knife-related casualties that occur in U.S. schools, since federal statistics on school-related injuries and fatalities do not break down the numbers by the type of weapon used.
Seven percent of public school students in grades 9-12 reported being threatened or injured with a weapon at school in the 2010-11 school year, according to the most recent data available from the U.S. Department of Education...
"Large-scale knife-related incidents at schools are still more common in countries where people have more limited access to guns than people do in the United States. Between 2010 and 2012, a spate of attacks with knives and hammers at Chinese schools left dozens dead and more than 100 injured."
School Stabbings Signal Need for Broad Safety Plans
US/Canada knife school attacks
With 20 high school students stabbed or cut by a 16-year old classmate at Franklin Regional Senior High School in Murraysville, Pennsylvania,...
School Stabbings Signal Need for Broad Safety Plans
An attack by a knife-wielding student on a college campus near Houston on Tuesday left 14 people wounded – two of them seriously – and rekindled fears of yet another brazen daytime assault on students.
Mass knife attacks, like at Texas college, are rare
Nine students critical after US school knife attack
Nine students critical after US school knife attack
5 University of Calgary students fatally stabbed in city's 'worst mass murder'
5 University of Calgary students fatally stabbed at end-of-year party - CNN.com
A 20-year-old student who investigators said reported having fantasies of killing people went on a stabbing rampage at a Texas community college campus Tuesday, wounding 14 people, two of them critically...
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2013/04/09/lone-star-college-stabbing/2067449/
In contrast, compare to Chinese knife attacks
Chinese authorities say two WOMEN were part of knife-wielding terror gang which left at least 33 dead and 143 wounded after attacking a train station in China
Chinese authorities say two WOMEN were part of knife-wielding terror gang which left at least 33 dead and 143 wounded after attacking a train station in China
China was racked by two knife attacks in schools in the span of two days that in turn followed a March 23 attack in which eight children were killed.
Knife Attacks Plague Schools in China
56-year-old suspect who killed four students
http://www.aljazeera.com/news/asia-...atally-stabbed-china-2014926143118889147.html
Stabbing Spree Reportedly Leaves 7 Dead
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/05/21/china-knife-attack_n_5362413.html
Knife attack at Chinese school wounds 22 children
http://www.cnn.com/2012/12/14/world/asia/china-knife-attack/index.html
Measures directed at keeping guns away from schools is idiocy for many reasons, but among them is the simple fact that a knife can be as effectively used if the killer has the know-how.
"It's difficult to quantify the exact number of knife-related casualties that occur in U.S. schools, since federal statistics on school-related injuries and fatalities do not break down the numbers by the type of weapon used.
Seven percent of public school students in grades 9-12 reported being threatened or injured with a weapon at school in the 2010-11 school year, according to the most recent data available from the U.S. Department of Education...
"Large-scale knife-related incidents at schools are still more common in countries where people have more limited access to guns than people do in the United States. Between 2010 and 2012, a spate of attacks with knives and hammers at Chinese schools left dozens dead and more than 100 injured."
School Stabbings Signal Need for Broad Safety Plans
US/Canada knife school attacks
With 20 high school students stabbed or cut by a 16-year old classmate at Franklin Regional Senior High School in Murraysville, Pennsylvania,...
School Stabbings Signal Need for Broad Safety Plans
An attack by a knife-wielding student on a college campus near Houston on Tuesday left 14 people wounded – two of them seriously – and rekindled fears of yet another brazen daytime assault on students.
Mass knife attacks, like at Texas college, are rare
Nine students critical after US school knife attack
Nine students critical after US school knife attack
5 University of Calgary students fatally stabbed in city's 'worst mass murder'
5 University of Calgary students fatally stabbed at end-of-year party - CNN.com
A 20-year-old student who investigators said reported having fantasies of killing people went on a stabbing rampage at a Texas community college campus Tuesday, wounding 14 people, two of them critically...
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2013/04/09/lone-star-college-stabbing/2067449/
In contrast, compare to Chinese knife attacks
Chinese authorities say two WOMEN were part of knife-wielding terror gang which left at least 33 dead and 143 wounded after attacking a train station in China
Chinese authorities say two WOMEN were part of knife-wielding terror gang which left at least 33 dead and 143 wounded after attacking a train station in China
China was racked by two knife attacks in schools in the span of two days that in turn followed a March 23 attack in which eight children were killed.
Knife Attacks Plague Schools in China
56-year-old suspect who killed four students
http://www.aljazeera.com/news/asia-...atally-stabbed-china-2014926143118889147.html
Stabbing Spree Reportedly Leaves 7 Dead
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/05/21/china-knife-attack_n_5362413.html
Knife attack at Chinese school wounds 22 children
http://www.cnn.com/2012/12/14/world/asia/china-knife-attack/index.html
Measures directed at keeping guns away from schools is idiocy for many reasons, but among them is the simple fact that a knife can be as effectively used if the killer has the know-how.