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Old 05-08-2007, 01:09 AM  
montel
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:stop Australian University Stabbing - USA thoughts wanted

Today there was a stabbing at an Australian university. It is said that the stabber was trying to repeat the Virginia Tech killings... with a knife.

"A female science student was wearing a home-made balaclava and leather gloves when she attacked another female student with a steak knife at La Trobe University in Melbourne's north this morning."
http://www.theage.com.au/news/nation...390275877.html

Here are my questions:
1. This girl openly said she wanted to kill a lot of people like in the Vigiia Tech killing. Guns are hard to get ahold of in Australia due to gun control laws. What kind of weapon would she have likely used if she was in the USA? Would this have increased the number of people injured or killed?

2. It is presently illegal to carry a concealed knife in Australia. Is this stabbing evidence that knives should abe allowed everywhere to prevent this kind of thing from happening again? (cos if ALL the students had knives this could have been stopped quicker and nobody would have been hurt!)
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