# 14 Stabbed at a Texas college. **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [April 9, 2013, 6:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/14-stabbed-at-a-texas-college/655248 "2013-04-09T18:23:52Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2013, 6:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/14-stabbed-at-a-texas-college/655248/1 "2013-04-09T18:23:52Z")
Time for VP Biden to study the feasibility of banning knives. Obama wants that report on his desk in a month. Seriously, how does one lunatic manage to stab 14 people? Couldn’t someone grab a chair and bash him? > **[Sheriff: Student plotted TX college attack, fantasized about stabbings | CNN](https://www.cnn.com/2013/04/09/justice/texas-college-stabbing/index.html?hpt=hp_t1)** > > Dylan Quick, 20, has been charged with aggravated assault with a deadly weapon after a stabbing rampage Tuesday on a Texas college campus. > [@](#): > > Fourteen people were injured in a stabbing incident Tuesday at Lone Star College’s CyFair campus in Cypress, Texas, a Harris County sheriff’s spokesman said – an incident prompting officials to urge students to take shelter. > > Authorities have detained one suspect – so far the only suspect at this point, the sheriff’s spokesman told reporters Tuesday afternoon. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2013, 6:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/14-stabbed-at-a-texas-college/655248/2 "2013-04-09T18:28:28Z")
It isn’t exactly evidence that if guns weren’t available knives would be just as deadly, is it? ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2013, 6:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/14-stabbed-at-a-texas-college/655248/3 "2013-04-09T18:28:54Z")
Keerap, that’s literally right down the road from me on Barker Cypress. Crazy. ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2013, 6:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/14-stabbed-at-a-texas-college/655248/4 "2013-04-09T18:31:44Z")
Well, at least they aren’t reporting any casualties. Let’s hope it stays that way. ---
**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2013, 6:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/14-stabbed-at-a-texas-college/655248/5 "2013-04-09T18:32:55Z")
Could be. 😃 A homicidal maniac will find some way to kill every time. A gun can kill a lot of people but driving your car into a crowd can easily kill a couple dozen. Theres always a way to kill if a person wants to. > [@Czarcasm](#): > > It isn’t exactly evidence that if guns weren’t available knives would be just as deadly, is it? ---
**Author:** ![BobLibDem](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/boblibdem/32/3149_2.png) [@BobLibDem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobLibDem)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2013, 6:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/14-stabbed-at-a-texas-college/655248/6 "2013-04-09T18:34:26Z")
Yep, 14 injured and 0 deaths. Guess that proves knives are just as deadly as guns- if you’re not terribly logical about it. Of course, it’s sufficient to trigger the NRA Emergency Posting System, whereby as long as there exists one other way to commit murder, we cannot lift a finger to do anything about the easiest and most effective means. ---
**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2013, 6:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/14-stabbed-at-a-texas-college/655248/7 "2013-04-09T18:37:27Z")
I’m really curious how 14 people let themselves get stabbed. Didn’t anyone from behind jump this crazy bastard? Get him down and stomp him. ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2013, 6:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/14-stabbed-at-a-texas-college/655248/8 "2013-04-09T18:43:40Z")
> [@aceplace57](#): > > Time for VP Biden to study the feasibility of banning knives. Obama wants that report on his desk in a month. Guffaw, guffaw, hilarious. > [@](#): > > Seriously, how does one lunatic manage to stab 14 people? It’s not clear that all the people who got hurt were stabbed. Some of them maybe have been injured in the chaos after the stabbing began. > [@aceplace57](#): > > A homicidal maniac will find some way to kill every time. So far, nobody has died. > [@aceplace57](#): > > I’m really curious how 14 people let themselves get stabbed. Again: we don’t know if 14 people were stabbed. And this wording makes it sound like you blame the victims. We don’t know what happened or how they were hurt. > [@](#): > > Didn’t anyone from behind jump this crazy bastard? Maybe they tried and got stabbed. ---
**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2013, 6:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/14-stabbed-at-a-texas-college/655248/9 "2013-04-09T18:49:08Z")
NBC has more info. Definitely six actually stabbed. The story is still evolving. Hopefully there won’t be any fatalities. Those life flights make a big difference in getting people care quickly. > **[U.S. News: Latest Breaking Stories, Video, and Photos on American Politics,...](https://www.nbcnews.com/us-news?lite)** > > Get the latest news headlines and top stories from NBCNews.com. Find videos and news articles on the latest stories in the US. > [@](#): > > A spokeswoman for North Cypress Medical Center outside Houston said the hospital had taken six stabbing victims who were in stable condition. The Harris County Sheriff’s Office said at least four people who were taken to hospitals in helicopters. ---
**Author:** ![yanceylebeef](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yanceylebeef/32/12290_2.png) [@yanceylebeef](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yanceylebeef)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2013, 6:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/14-stabbed-at-a-texas-college/655248/10 "2013-04-09T18:51:14Z")
> [@aceplace57](#): > > Time for VP Biden to study the feasibility of banning knives. Obama wants that report on his desk in a month. > > Seriously, how does one lunatic manage to stab 14 people? Couldn’t someone grab a chair and bash him? > > [http://www.cnn.com/2013/04/09/justice/texas-college-stabbing/index.html?hpt=hp\_t1](http://www.cnn.com/2013/04/09/justice/texas-college-stabbing/index.html?hpt=hp_t1) Internet Tough Guy spotted! ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2013, 6:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/14-stabbed-at-a-texas-college/655248/11 "2013-04-09T18:53:01Z")
[Some more details here.](http://www.foxnews.com/us/2013/04/09/at-least-5-reportedly-stabbed-on-lone-star-college-campus/) It sounds like one guy ran from building to building and stabbed people at random, which might account for why he wasn’t stopped sooner. Eventually another student reportedly took the attacker down. ---
**Author:** ![Capt\_Kirk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/779978/32.png) [@Capt\_Kirk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Capt_Kirk)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2013, 7:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/14-stabbed-at-a-texas-college/655248/12 "2013-04-09T19:22:07Z")
Great, Another one, just up the road from me. I promise you all, we Texans are not collectively crazy, I swear. **Capt** ---
**Author:** ![Locrian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/locrian/32/14146_2.png) [@Locrian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Locrian)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2013, 7:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/14-stabbed-at-a-texas-college/655248/13 "2013-04-09T19:47:35Z")
Wow. This could be spun more times than cotton candy. “See?? If schools had guns, we could stop the stabbers!” Or, “See?? Ban guns and no murders at schools!” Or even, “Thats it! No more culinary classes!!” ---
**Author:** ![Crafter\_Man](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crafter_man/32/458_2.png) [@Crafter\_Man](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crafter_Man)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2013, 7:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/14-stabbed-at-a-texas-college/655248/14 "2013-04-09T19:51:18Z")
From [here](http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/lookout/lone-star-stabbing-184840929.html): > [@](#): > > The suspect, a white male armed with what one witness described as an X-Acto knife… An X-Acto knife?! We use those all the time here at work. They are _ **small** _… ---
**Author:** ![bup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/6bbea6/32.png) [@bup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bup)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2013, 7:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/14-stabbed-at-a-texas-college/655248/15 "2013-04-09T19:52:54Z")
> [@BobLibDem](#): > > it’s sufficient to trigger the NRA Emergency Posting System, whereby as long as there exists one other way to commit murder, we cannot lift a finger to do anything about the easiest and most effective means. Well said. ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2013, 7:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/14-stabbed-at-a-texas-college/655248/16 "2013-04-09T19:55:46Z")
> [@Crafter\_Man](#): > > An X-Acto knife?! We use those all the time here at work. They are _ **small** _… Yeah, more like _14 Whittled at a Texas college._ ---
**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2013, 8:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/14-stabbed-at-a-texas-college/655248/17 "2013-04-09T20:14:28Z")
Certainly some painful injuries but it would be really bad luck to die from An X-Acto knife. The scope of the crime was noteworthy. Going building to building slicing and dicing. Glad someone stepped up and jumped this nut. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Hamster\_King](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8edcca/32.png) [@The\_Hamster\_King](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Hamster_King)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2013, 8:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/14-stabbed-at-a-texas-college/655248/18 "2013-04-09T20:28:54Z")
> [@aceplace57](#): > > Certainly some painful injuries but it would be really bad luck to die from An X-Acto knife. Good thing he didn’t have a gun. He could have killed a lot of people. ---
**Author:** ![Ethilrist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ethilrist/32/4604_2.png) [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2013, 8:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/14-stabbed-at-a-texas-college/655248/19 "2013-04-09T20:48:29Z")
> [@aceplace57](#): > > I’m really curious how 14 people let themselves get stabbed. Didn’t anyone from behind jump this crazy bastard? Get him down and stomp him. Maybe they were waiting for him to replace the blade with a fresh one? ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2013, 9:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/14-stabbed-at-a-texas-college/655248/20 "2013-04-09T21:01:11Z")
Doctors report some success treating the wounds with model cement. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/14-stabbed-at-a-texas-college/655248.md?page=2)