I guess this answers the age-old question, “If guns are outlawed, can we use swords?” — this time in Sweden:
An 18-year-old man armed with a sword unleashed his violent rampage at the Brinell School in Fagersta, northwest of Stockholm on Friday, just days after the school had resumed from its summer break.
‘The person killed in this incident is a young 17-year-old female. Her family has been informed,’ police said on their website without giving any other identity details.
Minnea, a Brinell student who went to the school to honour the victims on Saturday, told the SVT broadcaster: ‘It’s terrible to think that someone you sat at the same table with, someone you talked to, is suddenly dead.’
Two boys, a 12-year-old and a 17-year-old, were seriously injured, with one requiring emergency surgery.
A third person was also wounded, but police did not give any details on them.
Police said the suspect had been arrested after being shot at by officers, and that the case was being investigated as murder and attempted murder.
The alleged perpetrator was not injured during his arrest.
…which means that the Swedish fuzz need to spend a little more time at the range. methinks.
Here was an earlier such event, only in Britishland, so of course the cops there weren’t carrying guns — probably because all the ARMED POLICE! in the area were busy taking down people who had been posting Bad Things on Teh Intarwebz.
What’s also disturbing is the apparent random nature of all these things — I mean, as opposed to Muslim assholes going crazy on the infidels they encounter in their “adopted” countries. It seems as though these psycho swordsmen could pop up just about anywhere for a little gladiatorial practice.
So it’s one more reminder for us here in Murka to carry our guns every time we walk out the front door. (But I’m preaching to the choir here, aren’t I?)
Let’s ban knives, screwdrivers, chisels, forks, sticks, stones, pens (after all, the pen is mightier than the sword! And pens have been used as murder weapons in the past, though the records are muddled on it).
And oh, ban baseball bats (which are after all sticks), hockey sticks, golf sticks, hammers, scissors. All those have also been used in crimes…
https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balpenaffaire (In Dutch, student arrested for murdering his mother with a ballpoint pen. In appeal the conviction was later overturned as an accident could not be excluded as an option for the pen ending up in the woman’s brain through an eye).
Its time to talk about drugs. Not the street variety but the prescription variety. How many of everyone anymore is on some form of ssri or Adderall, or whatever the hell, and have been for decades now.
My Ruger LCR is such an easy & comfortable carry that I’m always strapped. Even at home.
whenever I hear about someone getting antisocial with a sword, I’m reminded of the scene in “Raiders of the Lost Ark” where Indiana Jones just shoots the dude with the sword. Perhaps that’s the origins of the Tueller Drill.