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christx30

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18. These were injuries. Most not life threatening.

Reply to tularetom (Reply #3)

Fri Oct 9, 2015, 04:29 PM

Oct 2015

If a gun had been involved, there would be funeral arrangements to make instead of an ER visit.
You'll never stop homocidal idiots. They will outlast the sun. But you can limit the damage they can do.

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4 men stabbed, 1 woman hit at Jimmy's Famous Seafood in Southeast Baltimore [View all] Saviolo Oct 2015 OP

You know, maybe the world did end with the red moon, the sane world that is. LiberalArkie Oct 2015 #1

The world actually ended with hte proliferation of hydrocarbon-powered engines Scootaloo Oct 2015 #6

Thank god there wasn't a gun Lunabell Oct 2015 #2

My thought exactly. Would have been some dead people if a gun had been involved. nt Fla Dem Oct 2015 #9

Maybe, maybe not. EL34x4 Oct 2015 #21

That was my first thought reading this Saviolo Oct 2015 #11

Sounds like a good argument for our LEOs to model the Brit Bobbies - no sidearms. jonno99 Oct 2015 #15

Universal background checks for knife purchases! tularetom Oct 2015 #3

Laugh it up, but if a gun was involved instead of a knife you and I both know there would have . . . brush Oct 2015 #7

You don't know that, GGJohn Oct 2015 #24

Keep telling yourself that . . . brush Oct 2015 #25

I'm not the one telling you, the stats tell us that. eom. GGJohn Oct 2015 #26

Way to avoid the issue and ignore the dead bodies from the gun deaths mentioned. brush Oct 2015 #27

I'm not avoiding anything, GGJohn Oct 2015 #28

So what percentage of knifings result in fatalities? brush Oct 2015 #31

Or there may not have been any fatalities. GGJohn Oct 2015 #32

You're the one that quoted that 80% or shootings are non-fatal brush Oct 2015 #35

How utterly predictable. Paladin Oct 2015 #14

Yeah, that's all we live for. GGJohn Oct 2015 #29

These were injuries. Most not life threatening. christx30 Oct 2015 #18

Actually, this disproves the "good guy with a knife" theory. Spitfire of ATJ Oct 2015 #20

"for treatment of injuries considered to be non-life-threatening" KamaAina Oct 2015 #4

Yup. Shadowflash Oct 2015 #5

Exactly. tosh Oct 2015 #10

It's gratifying Saviolo Oct 2015 #13

+1 n/t FSogol Oct 2015 #19

Stop economic inequality! Turbineguy Oct 2015 #8

"non-life-threatening" eom Schema Thing Oct 2015 #12

4 Dead, 1 Injured At Jimmy's Seafood In Baltimore SoCalMusicLover Oct 2015 #16

Had guns been involved... Helen Borg Oct 2015 #17

Crazy Sliceo Oct 2015 #22

If and when the guns are gone, edgineered Oct 2015 #23

If and when the guns are gone, GGJohn Oct 2015 #30

we know that, edgineered Oct 2015 #33

Excellent analysis. GGJohn Oct 2015 #34