Man With Hatchet Attacks Group of NY Cops

[SifuPhil]

A bystander was struck by a bullet but I wouldn't be holding the police culpable for that happening. She could just as easily have been hacked if the police hadn't brought him down.

It's my understanding that she was quite far away from the perp - there IS such a thing as "knowing your background" when you use a firearm.

In spite of his conversion to Islam I wouldn't class this as terrorism. Terrifying, certainly, but terrorism is more organised than this. I'd class him as a deranged and deluded person who may very well have had voices in his head.

Yes, he had voices in his head - Allah's.

I've read where one possible new strategy that these terrorists are considering / using is to do "hit and runs" such as this instead of large attacks. They would serve to keep us off-balance, to confuse and intimidate us until "the big one" can be pulled off.

 

[chic]

Sadly true.

I enjoy 24/7 news sometimes because it keeps me informed about things I may need to know and I can make decisions for myself and my family accordingly.

Blaming the news for causing panic is just false. It's all up to the individual. You can shut the tv off. Which I often do if it becomes overhwhelming or repetitive. Sure the world is violent. It always has been. But forewarned is forarmed.

 

[Warrigal]

A second student at Marysville has died, a girl unrelated to the shooter.
She was 14 years old and her name is Gia Soriano.
The other two boys, his cousins, are still in a critical condition.

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2014/10/27/washington-school-shooting/17987021/

 

[WhatInThe]

New Black Panther party condones ax attack.

http://nypost.com/2014/10/27/new-black-panther-group-hails-ax-attacker/

Doesn't condone violence but understands his frustration. So is this a civil rights crusader or an Islamic revolutionary. Please, some make up their mind.

 

[rt3]

gun free zone

currently something like 20 states have adapted, funded, and implemented armed guards in the schools (teachers, part time staff) who would be first on the scene, and trained to handle these.

When the statistics start coming in showing the low incidence in shootings at these states, will the anti gun freaks change their rant?

Most private schools have armed guards and that is one of the reasons people send their kids there. When more states adapt voucher (home schooling, public fund participation by private schools) the public schools will still be at the mercy of socialist thinkers, in every aspect. Security, history,sciences etc.

 

[rt3]

amount of violence hasn't changed or increased, its the awareness. Has CNN found that airplane yet?

 

[SifuPhil]

amount of violence hasn't changed or increased, its the awareness ...

Not to hear all the official stats on crime tell it ... I know that media coverage is often to blame, but I find it hard to believe that these same things happened in the same quantity 100 years ago. We didn't have the drugs, we didn't have the liberal masses and owning a gun for self-defense was a non-issue.