# 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:** 2
**Author:** ![JKilez](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e5b9ba/32.png) [@JKilez](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JKilez)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2013, 10:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/14-stabbed-at-a-texas-college/655248/21 "2013-04-09T22:31:34Z")
> [@Crafter\_Man](#): > > An X-Acto knife?! We use those all the time here at work. They are _ **small** _… Replace the term “X-Acto knife” with its effective twin, “scalpel” and it may be clearer what kind of damage it can do. They may be small for knives, but are extremely sharp. ---
**Author:** ![Balance](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ccd318/32.png) [@Balance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Balance)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2013, 10:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/14-stabbed-at-a-texas-college/655248/22 "2013-04-09T22:35:54Z")
> [@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. Knives are complicated to take away from someone–more difficult than a gun, in many ways. They’re also more viscerally frightening to a lot of people: everybody knows a gun can kill them, but most have never felt what it’s like to get shot. It’s scary, but sort of abstract. Getting cut, on the other hand, is familiar enough for most people to extrapolate. ---
**Author:** ![msmith537](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d9b06d/32.png) [@msmith537](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/msmith537)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2013, 11:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/14-stabbed-at-a-texas-college/655248/23 "2013-04-09T23:19:27Z")
> [@aceplace57](#): > > Seriously, how does one lunatic manage to stab 14 people? Couldn’t someone grab a chair and bash him? It’s Texas. Where were all the guns at? ---
**Author:** ![the\_diego](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7bcc69/32.png) [@the\_diego](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/the_diego)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2013, 11:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/14-stabbed-at-a-texas-college/655248/24 "2013-04-09T23:47:04Z")
This is bad of me but as a knife collector and illegal carrier, I would have “fared” much better than that maniac. He obviously was not schooled in the use of a knife. Or, he simply meant to terrorize and maim. An accomplished knife wielder can kill a lot of unarmed people in a confined space. ---
**Author:** ![garygnu](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/garygnu/32/2924_2.png) [@garygnu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/garygnu)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2013, 11:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/14-stabbed-at-a-texas-college/655248/25 "2013-04-09T23:47:23Z")
> [@JKilez](#): > > Replace the term “X-Acto knife” with its effective twin, “scalpel” and it may be clearer what kind of damage it can do. They may be small for knives, but are extremely sharp. If you loosen the clamp on the blade, I can imagine the little No. 11 blade staying in the body. :eek: ---
**Author:** ![the\_diego](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7bcc69/32.png) [@the\_diego](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/the_diego)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2013, 12:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/14-stabbed-at-a-texas-college/655248/26 "2013-04-10T00:17:21Z")
I’ll settle for that as long as it doesn’t hit a vital organ or the jugular. ---
**Author:** ![Duke\_of\_Rat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ad7895/32.png) [@Duke\_of\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duke_of_Rat)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2013, 1:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/14-stabbed-at-a-texas-college/655248/27 "2013-04-10T01:04:53Z")
> [@lieu](#): > > Keerap, that’s literally right down the road from me on Barker Cypress. Crazy. Hey, I used to hang out around the Fry/Freeman area (Settler’s Village), probably not far from you depending on what part of Barker Cypress you are on. So we’ve almost crossed paths in the Panhandle and Houston area. The report I just read was 2 critical, but certainly nothing like a gun could have done. Or even a bigger knife. ---
**Author:** ![msmith537](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d9b06d/32.png) [@msmith537](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/msmith537)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2013, 1:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/14-stabbed-at-a-texas-college/655248/28 "2013-04-10T01:31:58Z")
> [@the\_diego](#): > > This is bad of me but as a knife collector and illegal carrier, I would have “fared” much better than that maniac. He obviously was not schooled in the use of a knife. Or, he simply meant to terrorize and maim. > > An accomplished knife wielder can kill a lot of unarmed people in a confined space. Thanks Bill “the Butcher” Cutting. ---
**Author:** ![the\_diego](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7bcc69/32.png) [@the\_diego](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/the_diego)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2013, 2:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/14-stabbed-at-a-texas-college/655248/29 "2013-04-10T02:20:44Z")
^ One of my favorite villains. I don’t carry that many knives. Just two or three. ---
**Author:** ![Lamar\_Mundane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/85f322/32.png) [@Lamar\_Mundane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lamar_Mundane)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2013, 3:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/14-stabbed-at-a-texas-college/655248/30 "2013-04-10T03:55:14Z")
“A knife? A fucking knife? Anyone who knows what they are talking about knows that’s an X ACTO X3602! Those morons in the media don’t have a clue what they’re talking about. They can’t tell a X3602 from a fucking knife. They should just keep their mouths shut and get some education. It’s because they’re afraid of knives, I tell you. Fucking knife-nabbers.” ---
**Author:** ![Max\_the\_Immortal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/6de8d8/32.png) [@Max\_the\_Immortal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Max_the_Immortal)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2013, 4:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/14-stabbed-at-a-texas-college/655248/31 "2013-04-10T04:41:56Z")
> [@msmith537](#): > > It’s Texas. Where were all the guns at? Yeah. Whatever happened to “an armed society is a polite society”? ---
**Author:** ![PurpleClogs](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f04885/32.png) [@PurpleClogs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PurpleClogs)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2013, 4:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/14-stabbed-at-a-texas-college/655248/32 "2013-04-10T04:58:26Z")
Local news reported he was going for throats and many of the wounds were to the face and neck. ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2013, 6:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/14-stabbed-at-a-texas-college/655248/33 "2013-04-10T06:15:32Z")
> [@JKilez](#): > > Replace the term “X-Acto knife” with its effective twin, “scalpel” and it may be clearer what kind of damage it can do. They may be small for knives, but are extremely sharp. Yep. We used those all the time in art class in high school and those things can cut like a motherfucker. ---
**Author:** ![B.Serum](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/b.serum/32/14266_2.png) [@B.Serum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/B.Serum)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2013, 7:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/14-stabbed-at-a-texas-college/655248/34 "2013-04-10T07:32:13Z")
As a graphic designer, I know exactly the kind of damage they can do. Its too bad that there weren’t more art majors on the scene because the only way to stop a bad guy with a penknife is a good guy with a penknife. ---
**Author:** ![Eonwe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eonwe/32/240_2.png) [@Eonwe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eonwe)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2013, 9:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/14-stabbed-at-a-texas-college/655248/35 "2013-04-10T09:10:44Z")
Heh, Obama is stupid, that’s for sure. Lolz! ---
**Author:** ![Lightnin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lightnin/32/180_2.png) [@Lightnin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lightnin)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2013, 11:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/14-stabbed-at-a-texas-college/655248/36 "2013-04-10T11:30:25Z")
Sure was a good thing he didn’t have a gun, wasn’t it? ---
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2013, 11:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/14-stabbed-at-a-texas-college/655248/37 "2013-04-10T11:52:11Z")
> [@Max\_the\_Immortal](#): > > Yeah. Whatever happened to “an armed society is a polite society”? Unless it changed in the last couple of days, it is illegal to carry a concealed handgun in Texas while on a college campus. Even if you have a CCW. A quick look showed that a bill to change that was still in committee a couple of weeks ago. ---
**Author:** ![Doctor\_Jackson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doctor_jackson/32/32_2.png) [@Doctor\_Jackson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doctor_Jackson)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2013, 3:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/14-stabbed-at-a-texas-college/655248/38 "2013-04-10T15:13:45Z")
> [@BobLibDem](#): > > 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. Right, so let’s look at this logically. According to the CDC, in 2010 there were 2.4 million deaths in the US (NOTE: all numbers rounded). Homicide accounted for 16,000, homicide by gun 11,000, homicide by assualt weapon 600. On the other hand, suicide accounted for 38,000 deaths. Vehicle accidents accounted for 35,000. Diabetes took 69,000. Homicides in general and gun homicides in particular get the bullk of the attention. Mass killings get the most press of any, in spite of the fact that in every year since 1980 homicides with 3 or more victims account for less than 1% of murders. If we really want to make an impact we should concentrate on suicides and preventable diseases like diabetes. Either one of those would have a much greater impact on the actual death toll. Not nearly as controversial, though. ---
**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2013, 3:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/14-stabbed-at-a-texas-college/655248/39 "2013-04-10T15:19:09Z")
Someone running with a smallish knife in his hand just looks like someone running - an Xacto isn’t exactly easy to spot. Most people wouldn’t see anything strange until he started going for their faces. I know a guy who got knifed in the thigh once during a bar fight; he’d thought it was a strange spot for the other guy to punch him in until someone else noticed the blood. ---
**Author:** ![madmonk28](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/madmonk28/32/20811_2.png) [@madmonk28](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madmonk28)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2013, 3:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/14-stabbed-at-a-texas-college/655248/40 "2013-04-10T15:28:56Z")
As soon as I saw this story, I knew that the gun fetishists were going to be estatic. Now, if only someone would stab a bunch of children they can go back to being the weird little creeps with their metal penises in peace. Of course, this is a) very rare and b) not terribly deadly, so if I have to choose between little weirdos with knives, or little weirdos with guns, I’ll take the knives. Don’t lose hope gun fetishists, if anything, kniver are more phallic than guns. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/14-stabbed-at-a-texas-college/655248.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/14-stabbed-at-a-texas-college/655248.md?page=3)