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Chance
08-08-2019, 12:18 PM
From BBC News (https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-49284329):


A man is in custody after a stabbing and robbery spree that left four people dead and two injured across several crime scenes in Southern California.

Police told US media the violence appeared to be random, with the only known motives for the two-hour rampage as "robbery, hate, homicide".

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The stabbing spree took place across more than six locations over approximately two hours in Garden Grove and neighbouring Santa Ana, about 35 miles (56km) southeast of Los Angeles.

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The attacks began at around 16:00 PST (00:00 BST), when local police received a call from two people who reported their apartment robbed, US media report.

Another call came in shortly after, reporting a burglary at a bakery in Garden Grove.

From the bakery, police said, the suspect returned to his apartment complex nearby, where he fatally stabbed two people after an alleged altercation.

Around 18:00 PST, the suspect allegedly drove to a gas station where he attacked a man pumping gas, nearly severing the victim's nose off his face.

Detectives tracked the suspect's car to the parking lot of a 7-Eleven convenience store in Santa Ana. The man came out of the store shortly after, carrying a large knife and a gun he had taken from the 7-Eleven security guard.

Upon his arrest, police were informed the man allegedly had also killed a male employee of a nearby Subway restaurant.

He also allegedly robbed an insurance business, where an employee was stabbed several times, as well as a check-cashing business.

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Police said the crimes have "nothing to do" with race, noting that the suspect and most of the victims are Hispanic.

Totem Polar
08-08-2019, 12:48 PM
Man, there are a lot of recurring lessons to unpack in just the excerpt you posted. It’s almost a game: "how many past P-F threads can you find?"

Random acts, knife v gun, SA/MUC, OC/deterrent (security guard)... the hits just don’t stop with that one, and I’m completely ignoring the policy/political angle.

OlongJohnson
08-08-2019, 01:40 PM
The Santa Barbara dipshit used a knife for several of his victims, as well.

Stephanie B
08-08-2019, 02:00 PM
Don't worry, they'll get around to restricting ownership of those slashy/stabby things, soon enough.

Kukuforguns
08-08-2019, 03:28 PM
Don't worry, they'll get around to restricting ownership of those slashy/stabby things, soon enough.

Not until they have succeeded in restricting the ownership of guns into oblivion. Until then, the gun/knife grabbers will loudly exclaim, "We don't want to take your knives! That's just insane paranoia."

OlongJohnson
08-08-2019, 05:01 PM
England has had active knife "amnesty" programs and advocacy for the banning of pointy knives since at least 2005.

Kukuforguns
08-08-2019, 06:22 PM
Don't worry, they'll get around to restricting ownership of those slashy/stabby things, soon enough.


Not until they have succeeded in restricting the ownership of guns into oblivion. Until then, the gun/knife grabbers will loudly exclaim, "We don't want to take your knives! That's just insane paranoia."

Wow, I've proved myself overly optimistic and wrong in less than a day. https://www.thetruthaboutguns.com/new-york-governor-cuomo-signs-law-banning-ghost-knives/

My apologies Stephanie.

Mark D
08-08-2019, 08:12 PM
The Santa Barbara dipshit used a knife for several of his victims, as well.

A knife and hammer to kill his roommates. When he went mobile, he weaponized his BMW too, if memory serves.

As a resident of California, today's knife rampage popped up in my local news feed, but I noticed it was very poorly covered in the national media.

There was no guns and no racial component, so apparently it's not worthy of much attention. More's the pity.

Stephanie B
08-08-2019, 09:17 PM
A knife and hammer to kill his roommates. When he went mobile, he weaponized his BMW too, if memory serves.

As a resident of California, today's knife rampage popped up in my local news feed, but I noticed it was very poorly covered in the national media.

There was no guns and no racial component, so apparently it's not worthy of much attention. More's the pity.
I think that it and the Pittsburgh stabbings was the lead story in the east coast edition of ABC News.

Chance
08-09-2019, 09:19 AM
I think that it and the Pittsburgh stabbings was the lead story in the east coast edition of ABC News.

It was on the front page at BBC News, which is technically a world news site, but seems to have a taste for American calamities. The ICE raids in Mississippi were the headliner for a while, because... reasons.

Old Man Winter
08-09-2019, 09:19 AM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MK2FfLFCjNQ