# Stabbings at Pittsburgh high school - 20 injured **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [April 9, 2014, 1:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stabbings-at-pittsburgh-high-school-20-injured/685708 "2014-04-09T13:12:59Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Ellen\_Cherry](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellen_cherry/32/3600_2.png) [@Ellen\_Cherry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ellen_Cherry)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2014, 1:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stabbings-at-pittsburgh-high-school-20-injured/685708/1 "2014-04-09T13:12:59Z")
> **[Four school stabbing victims in critical condition; teen suspect charged as...](https://www.cnn.com/2014/04/09/justice/pennsylvania-school-stabbing/index.html)** > > A teen arrested in Wednesday’s school stabbings in Pennsylvania has been charged as an adult, a source close to the investigation told CNN. This is unreal to me. Twenty students injured, apparently by another student. ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2014, 2:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stabbings-at-pittsburgh-high-school-20-injured/685708/2 "2014-04-09T14:06:46Z")
Wow. Nice area. ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2014, 3:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stabbings-at-pittsburgh-high-school-20-injured/685708/3 "2014-04-09T15:39:41Z")
Anybody can shoot a place up. This kid is a goddamn over-achiever! What The Fuck? ---
**Author:** ![ZipperJJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zipperjj/32/211_2.png) [@ZipperJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZipperJJ)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2014, 3:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stabbings-at-pittsburgh-high-school-20-injured/685708/4 "2014-04-09T15:42:54Z")
What a shame ☹ You really gotta be an upset kid, running around like a whirling dirvish to get 20 victims before being stopped. From the pics I saw he didn’t look that big (he was sitting in a cop car, tho). ---
**Author:** ![Balance](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ccd318/32.png) [@Balance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Balance)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2014, 3:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stabbings-at-pittsburgh-high-school-20-injured/685708/5 "2014-04-09T15:58:14Z")
> [@ZipperJJ](#): > > What a shame ☹ You really gotta be an upset kid, running around like a whirling dirvish to get 20 victims before being stopped. From the pics I saw he didn’t look that big (he was sitting in a cop car, tho). It’s more difficult than you would think to take a knife away from someone. More difficult than a gun, in some ways. ---
**Author:** ![drachillix](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/48db29/32.png) [@drachillix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drachillix)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2014, 3:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stabbings-at-pittsburgh-high-school-20-injured/685708/6 "2014-04-09T15:59:57Z")
Fortunately it wasnt an assault knife…or there might have been dozens more. ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2014, 4:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stabbings-at-pittsburgh-high-school-20-injured/685708/7 "2014-04-09T16:24:29Z")
I remember taking a knife to school in 4th grade so that we could play mumbley-peg at lunch time. Nobody ever got hurt. Now there is zero tolerance for weapons, and kids get stabbed. ---
**Author:** ![Patty\_O\_Furniture](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/96bed5/32.png) [@Patty\_O\_Furniture](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Patty_O_Furniture)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2014, 4:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stabbings-at-pittsburgh-high-school-20-injured/685708/8 "2014-04-09T16:48:34Z")
> [@drachillix](#): > > Fortunately it wasnt an assault knife…or there might have been dozens more. The National Knife Association would like to have a word with you. ---
**Author:** ![Dallas\_Jones](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dallas_jones/32/3277_2.png) [@Dallas\_Jones](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dallas_Jones)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2014, 5:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stabbings-at-pittsburgh-high-school-20-injured/685708/9 "2014-04-09T17:36:24Z")
> [@drachillix](#): > > Fortunately it wasnt an assault knife…or there might have been dozens more. Well, with the number of students injured it appears to be a high capacity, semi-automatic knife. No knife should be able to stab more than 7 times. ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2014, 7:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stabbings-at-pittsburgh-high-school-20-injured/685708/10 "2014-04-09T19:50:20Z")
The kid was smart. He brought a second knife so nobody could stop him while he was reloading. ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2014, 8:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stabbings-at-pittsburgh-high-school-20-injured/685708/11 "2014-04-09T20:38:27Z")
> [@Boyo\_Jim](#): > > The kid was smart. Kid was pissed. ---
**Author:** ![Ostrya](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/35a633/32.png) [@Ostrya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ostrya)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2014, 8:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stabbings-at-pittsburgh-high-school-20-injured/685708/12 "2014-04-09T20:56:59Z")
This is what happens when you make rules against knives in school - you only take away knives from the kids who follow the rules so it’s like cutting fish in a barrel. ---
**Author:** ![Telemark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/telemark/32/372_2.png) [@Telemark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Telemark)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2014, 9:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stabbings-at-pittsburgh-high-school-20-injured/685708/13 "2014-04-09T21:09:56Z")
> [@kayaker](#): > > I remember taking a knife to school in 4th grade so that we could play mumbley-peg at lunch time. Nobody ever got hurt. Now there is zero tolerance for weapons, and kids get stabbed. Plenty of kids got stabbed back then. ---
**Author:** ![Rick\_Kitchen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rick_kitchen/32/522_2.png) [@Rick\_Kitchen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rick_Kitchen)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2014, 9:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stabbings-at-pittsburgh-high-school-20-injured/685708/14 "2014-04-09T21:51:55Z")
I got stabbed with a pencil when I was in eighth grade, they should have outlawed pencils. (Followup on the story the other day of a 7th grader who was suspended from school and ordered to undergo psychological interviews, blood tests and urine tests because he was twirling his pencil in class). ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2014, 9:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stabbings-at-pittsburgh-high-school-20-injured/685708/15 "2014-04-09T21:57:45Z")
I can’t even tell who thinks they’re scoring points for what side of the gun control debate. ---
**Author:** ![buddha\_david](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ee7513/32.png) [@buddha\_david](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/buddha_david)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2014, 12:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stabbings-at-pittsburgh-high-school-20-injured/685708/16 "2014-04-10T00:08:24Z")
> [@Marley23](#): > > I can’t even tell who thinks they’re scoring points for what side of the gun control debate. It’s a slippery slope. Next thing you know, they won’t even let us carry nail clippers onto planes anymore. Oh…wait. ---
**Author:** ![FoieGrasIsEvil](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foiegrasisevil/32/16638_2.png) [@FoieGrasIsEvil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FoieGrasIsEvil)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2014, 12:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stabbings-at-pittsburgh-high-school-20-injured/685708/17 "2014-04-10T00:40:03Z")
What is it with some of you guys and these tragic stabbings/shootings? Have you become so inured to attacks like this that your only reflex is gun control jokes? This is a horrible, horrible tragedy. I understand black humor. I understand joking in the face of grim reality when it’s happening to YOU. I don’t get the armchair internet expressions of mock outrage over something like this, particularly with the liberal sprinkling of gun jokes. Why? ---
**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2014, 1:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stabbings-at-pittsburgh-high-school-20-injured/685708/18 "2014-04-10T01:55:20Z")
> [@FoieGrasIsEvil](#): > > What is it with some of you guys and these tragic stabbings/shootings? You weren’t around to hear the jokes after the Shuttle Challenger blew up, were you? And that was pre-Internet, when people had to be face-to-face to tell sick jokes. ---
**Author:** ![FoieGrasIsEvil](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foiegrasisevil/32/16638_2.png) [@FoieGrasIsEvil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FoieGrasIsEvil)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2014, 2:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stabbings-at-pittsburgh-high-school-20-injured/685708/19 "2014-04-10T02:27:18Z")
> [@kunilou](#): > > You weren’t around to hear the jokes after the Shuttle Challenger blew up, were you? > > And that was pre-Internet, when people had to be face-to-face to tell sick jokes. I was, but…I don’t know, I guess the occupational hazards of riding on top of a gigantic roman candle seem to fall in line with that kind of humor, as tragic as it was at the time. Kids dying like this…just so senseless. Maybe it’s because I have sons of my own and I can’t possibly imagine the heartbreak of something happening like this to them, at least before they even have a shot at adulthood. ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2014, 2:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stabbings-at-pittsburgh-high-school-20-injured/685708/20 "2014-04-10T02:55:40Z")
> [@FoieGrasIsEvil](#): > > I was, but…I don’t know, I guess the occupational hazards of riding on top of a gigantic roman candle seem to fall in line with that kind of humor, as tragic as it was at the time. Kids dying like this…just so senseless. Maybe it’s because I have sons of my own and I can’t possibly imagine the heartbreak of something happening like this to them, at least before they even have a shot at adulthood. There is just something … funny … about it being a stabbing rather than a shooting. I must admit that I myself reacted strangely to it. It’s hard to put my finger on exactly why. And, nobody died! [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stabbings-at-pittsburgh-high-school-20-injured/685708.md?page=2)