Four people were found dead and seven others were injured in a stabbing rampage across multiple areas in Rockford, Illinois, on Wednesday afternoon, police say, and a suspect is in custody.
A 15-year-old girl, a 63-year-old woman, a 49-year-old man, and a 22-year-old man were killed in the incident and five others who were injured were transported to local hospitals with “serious injuries,” the Rockford Police Department said in a news release Wednesday evening.
Five people were injured in the city of Rockford and two people were injured in the jurisdiction of Winnebago County, Rockford police spokesperson Michelle Marcomb told CNN.
Remind them that the same day as Sandy Hook there was a mass stabbing attack in a Chinese school. No one died. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chenpeng_Village_Primary_School_stabbing
Knives are less deadly than guns. These are all tragedies but they are not comparable in outcome.
Anecdotes aren’t science, though. So rely on the science that says guns are dangerous and don’t make us safer. https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/hicrc/
Browse around gun owners, you won’t be happy.
Nah, my go-to is the 2019 Dayton OH shooting.
Guy opens fire in a busy shopping district in front of police officers and still kills nine people and injures 17 others. From the first shot he fired until the police fatally shot him was 32 seconds.. Twenty-six casualties in the best-possible scenario for police response.
GUNS. ARE. THE. FUCKING. PROBLEM.
Well, in a mass event, knives are overall less deadly because of the proximity requirement. But I’ll disagree that the knife is less deadly, when it can be employed correctly, because it can do much more damage to a single target.
This is a very large part of the idea.
Yes… which it why I was pretty specific
This isn’t a point. Like think back on what you just said - it’s literally “well if you’re very close to someone a knife is pretty deadly”
Yeah well I guess that’s why guns are deadlier because you don’t have to be close and can stab lots of people with your high velocity mini-knives.
Every time some tactical pedant will come out of their bunker to educate us on how ackshuyally navy seals prefer knives to guns because they like the smell of blood and every time it’s worthless
I think you think I’m someone else. Maybe calm down and just take a comment for a comment
This guy survived 35 stab wounds. I’ve never heard of someone surviving 35 gunshot wounds.
I can shoot you 35 times in the foot and you’ll live.
Except by 35 shots, there would only be a stump and I would bleed out and die.
I’ll use a 22 caliber.
I’m not sure why you think that would preserve a foot and not have someone bleed out after 35 shots in the same place.
There are rappers who have been shot hundreds of times
Hundreds? By one person at one specific point?
I doubt both of those.
Yeah, so do I.
Son, you ever see an exit wound?
Bullets cause massively more damage than knives, internally.
Agreed, but that correct employment takes a lot of practice and training. I wonder if there’s been studies on the level of “damage” vs the perpetrators training/experience in these mass casualty events.
I don’t think that a person who got to the point where they wanted to murder a room full of people would have the planning skills and patience to do it with a knife.
I wouldn’t put it past a human to get to that point… Especially in the society we’ve built. And it’s possible they had it as a hobby, or are able to suffer through the training, practice, and planning without getting discovered. But likely they’d go with an easier option if available, like a gun, or an ied.
Guns also require less physical strength, coordination, and gives the user a sense of god-like power that a knife can’t.