# It happens all over

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-happens-all-over/16186>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [April 20, 2000, 6:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-happens-all-over/16186 "2000-04-20T18:31:00Z")\
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**Author:** ![Missy2U](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/3bc359/32.png) [@Missy2U](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Missy2U)\
**Post date:** [April 20, 2000, 6:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-happens-all-over/16186/1 "2000-04-20T18:31:00Z")

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Not mundane and not pointless. Just unbelievable.

[Five Stabbed in Canada School](http://www.cnn.com/2000/WORLD/americas/04/20/canada.stabbing.reut/index.html)

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**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\
**Post date:** [April 20, 2000, 6:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-happens-all-over/16186/2 "2000-04-20T18:37:00Z")

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Aw, for Pete’s sake, this is really beginning to get tiresome (stabbing and shooting your friends and relations, I mean). I keep expecting to see a newspaper headline:

EVERYBODY KILLS EVERYBODY ELSE!

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**Author:** ![Suo\_Na](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/898d66/32.png) [@Suo\_Na](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Suo_Na)\
**Post date:** [April 20, 2000, 6:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-happens-all-over/16186/3 "2000-04-20T18:37:00Z")

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It does happen all over, even in clean, peaceful Canada. Just thank God we have gun control laws so the kid had to use a knife and no one was killed.

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