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.
I can’t wait for the gun advocates to come in here and say, “see? SEE?!?”
Except their gun laws are pretty permissive and from reading the article it seems like there were plenty of opportunities for that “good guy with a gun” to have stopped it before the police caught up with him.
They even could have excused it with the Castle Doctrine since he was breaking into homes.
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.
I considered it, but have decided to go with “I didn’t know Reefer Madness was real.”
They ignore that with a gun, the kill count would have been 10x higher
This is why I stay home
Statistically, you are more likely to die at home than anywhere else.
Well yeah, cause that’s where most people spend the majority of their time lol.
That’s what I thought at first, but that number is actually global. For developed countries, it’s only like 21%, and the most common location is the hospital. Conclusion: developed countries have better access to medical services so you go to the hospital for critical care, while in less developed countries you just go home and die.
What causes the death, and where that happens, is another question.
It’s (probably) still true that you’re most likely to get in a car accident near your home, but that is because that’s where you do most of your driving.
This guy broke into homes to stab people.
Justification for ownership of all the swords in my home.
That’s my story, and I’m sticking to it.
I read your username as “dual spork” and thought this person knows how to defend their home.
But trust me, I am the champion at knifey-spoony.
