Tuesday, April 09, 2013

MASS STABBING AT LONE STAR COLLEGE CRIES OUT FOR BOXCUTTER CONTROLS

Today’s mass stabbing at the Cy-Fair campus of Lone Star College near Houston left 14 victims wounded, two of them critically. The suspect, Dylan Andrew Quick, 20, a student at the college, chose his victims at random, running down a hallway as he slashed away until he fled and was subdued by pursuing students and faculty before being placed into custody by cops. Witnesses described the stabbing instrument as a boxcutter.

I am waiting for President Obama, Vice President Biden, Senator Feinstein, N.Y. Governor Cuomo and other Democratic politicians to call for proposals to control boxcutters and other utility knives. I am waiting for Mayor Bloomberg to spend some of his billions on a national TV ad campaign calling for a ban on utility knives.

I am waiting for CBS News anchor Soctt Pelley and the news anchors of other TV networks to conduct endless interviews with the Lone Star College victims like they have been doing with the families of the Sandy Hook Elementary School victims in a massive effort to help push through new gun control legislation.

And I am waiting for President Obama to appear at the Houston Police Academy, and with more than 100 Houston area cops serving as props, deliver an emotional speech calling on Congress to enact utility knife controls.

I am waiting for someone to save us from getting stabbed by utility knives, but I am not holding my breath.

1 comment:

bob walsh said...

If the victims were black and the assailant non-black maybe you will get the Justice Brothers, Al and Jesse, to show up. Would that be good enough?