Another major school shooting today ... Newtown, Conn

So a knife Firefly would not work for some reason only a gun?

Nonsense as the US had always been a heavily armed society even before the US came into being.

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No, it doesn't turn every gun owner into a criminal. It only turns those that refuse to comply with the law into a criminal.

The comment was banning all guns and any US government that try that is an illegal government on it face however any lesser action can likely wait for the courts and the voters to deal with.

Good job Bill... You didn't have to go back 20 years to find a knife attack. Of course we don't have any knife attacks that killed 20 people in the last 20 years

http://www.edmontonjournal.com/news/edmonton/Police+fatal+attack+unprovoked+sided/7758709/story.html

In February 2011, police shot and killed a teenager after a series of violent robberies at the Coliseum LRT station. In that case, a woman passenger had a knife held to her throat by one of a group of robbers, and a man was slashed with knives and beaten when he refused to give the teens money. One of the teen robbers, Cyrus Green, was shot and killed by police after he lunged at an officer with a bat and a knife

http://www.hamhigh.co.uk/news/court-crime/man_convicted_over_paddington_tube_station_knife_slash_attack_at_rush_hour_1_1665046

Monday, October 22, 2012
5:08 PM


A knifeman who slashed a stranger across the face on a rush-hour Tube train for accidentally brushing against him is facing jail.

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Ahmed Bero, 23, launched himself at teenager Kurrim Buchanan in front of dozens of terrified commuters on the Bakerloo line between Paddington and Marylebone stations.

Bero drew a craft knife from his pocket and sliced through Mr Buchanan’s clothes before cutting him across the cheek as the minor scuffle turned bloody at about 8.25am on October 18 last year, Blackfriars Crown Court heard.

Mr Buchanan suffered a three-inch cut to his face, while his friend Boyd Maynard was also injured in the fracas, which spilled out onto a platform at Paddington packed with commuters.

Jurors were shown CCTV from the platform, where Mr Buchanan and Mr Maynard made their escape, barging past rush-hour commuters and finding safety in the arms of a police officer.

Glen Carasco, prosecuting, had told the court: “Mr Buchanan and his friend Boyd Maynard got on together at around 8ish and managed to get seats.

“They sat down opposite each other, one of them sitting next to the defendant Mr Bero.

“The Tube carried on heading southbound and as you would expect gets busier and more cramped. During the journey it seems that Mr Bero and Mr Buchanan come into some sort of contact accidentally whilst they are sitting next to each other.”

Witnesses saw the trio arguing before Bero unleashed his attack, pulling out a yellow craft knife as the train pulled in to Paddington.

Mr Maynard told the court he had tried to calm Mr Buchanan because he had blood gushing from his face, adding: “When I saw him on the platform I saw that his injury was 100 times worse than mine. He was saying, ‘My face is f*****’. I was trying to calm him down.”

Bero, who stayed on the train through Edgware Road until police stopped it at Marylebone, claimed self-defence after the two men tried to rob him, saying Mr Buchanan had pulled out the knife.

But Bero, of St Mary’s Street, Gillingham, Kent, was unanimously convicted of wounding with intent to cause GBH, and possessing a knife in public.

Judge Daniel Worsley bailed Bero on Monday, but warned him he faces “potentially a long sentence” when he returns on December 3.

He added: “For somebody who takes a knife unlawfully and uses it, custody is very much almost inevitable.”

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You are aware that we live in a country of laws, aren't you. We don't "overthrow" our government, we vote them in and out of office. It's not 1776, it's 2013. And sensible gun control measures, such as the President's proposals, do not threaten Second Amendment rights.

That's completely irrelevant to the issue of gun violence, and how to curb it.

The Constitution was framed by rich men to protect themselves and their property from what Peggy Hutchinson called the "dirty mob". It was anti-freedom to its core.

because he can't acknowledge the current problem of gun violence in our country

irearms make assaults easier, more immediate, more prone to rage and loss of control, and generally more lethal than many other forms of assault. Your position seems to be that we shouldn't try to reduce murders or assaults because they'll just happen anyway. That's dumb.

My position is there is nothing at all special about having a firearm with you over any other type of weapons that cause people to assault others.

firearms make assaults easier, more immediate, more prone to rage and loss of control, and generally more lethal than many other forms of assault.

Who is "get your Man card back" addressed to if not the emasculated?

That alone should bring up red flags, and sound all kinds of bells and whistles...That that thinking is not normal, or rational...

By the way the dirty mob is going to remain armed in the US.