Female student arrested after 8 stabbed at Dunbarton High School in Pickering

[canada-man]

A female student was arrested after eight people were stabbed at Dunbarton High School in Pickering this morning.
Durham Regional Police spokesman Dave Selby said the stabbings were reported around 8:32 a.m. Six minutes later, police had arrested a suspect inside the school.
“We got there pretty fast and were able to arrest her pretty quickly,” he said.
Sgt. Bill Calder told reporters at the scene that eight people had been stabbed, six of them students.
Police earlier said one person was taken to hospital with what were believed to be serious but not life-threatening injuries.
However, Calder said at the scene that four victims had been taken to hospital, and that none of the injuries proved to be serious.
Police have not released the age of the suspect, but Calder told reporters she is in “the younger grades.”

http://www.thestar.com/news/crime/2016/02/23/students-stabbed-at-pickering-high-school.html

 

[AK-47]

No one seriously injured except for one kid (who will live).

She sucks at stabbing people

 

[nondescriptive]

Victim of bullying perhaps?

 

[oldjones]

Suspect was taken down and disarmed by unarmed folks at the school, not shot and killed by TPS.

 

[nottyboi]

unlikely she intended to do more then hurt them. I wonder if we will find out what happened considering it involved minors.

 

[GPIDEAL]

Victim of bullying perhaps?

I thought the same thing at first.

 

[GPIDEAL]

Best advertisement I can think of for gun control. If she had a gun, no doubt it would have turned out worse.

That was discussed around the coffee machine too.

 

[Butler1000]

Suspect was taken down and disarmed by unarmed folks at the school, not shot and killed by TPS.

Well considering it was In Pickering I would think they decided to let the local cops handle it.

I would add there is a world of difference between a young man and a 14 girl. Probably about say 75 lbs of of muscle.

 

[nondescriptive]

Victim of bullying perhaps?

I thought the same thing at first.

In high school (mid 70's), one classmate was constantly bullying another, victim one day had enough, we were in chemistry class at the time. Victim of bullying picked up the stool (those things weighed a ton)he was sitting on by the legs and slammed the wooden seat hard into the back of his tormentor ( he wasn't seriously hurt, but was in pain for a couple of weeks.

I hate to think what would have happened if it happened present day, would victim have brought a gun to school?

 

[glamphotographer]

Suspect was taken down and disarmed by unarmed folks at the school, not shot and killed by TPS.

Ok, I'll take stab at this (too soon? My bad.). TPS still trying to figure it out. Wasting our tax dollars on courses to learn how to de-escalate the situation.

 

[twizz]

Ok, I'll take stab at this (too soon? My bad.). TPS still trying to figure it out. Wasting our tax dollars on courses to learn how to de-escalate the situation.

Dunbarton is in Pickering

 

[poorboy]

Best advertisement I can think of for gun control. If she had a gun, no doubt it would have turned out worse.

Statistics are about the same from 2010 to 2014, with stabbings starting to outnumbering shootings in the latter years. The definition of homicide is not murder either. They include suicides.

http://www.statcan.gc.ca/tables-tableaux/sum-som/l01/cst01/legal01-eng.htm

People have to get it through their head. Gun control has very little to do with the homicide rate, which has been dropping in both Canada and the U.S. Only thing that has happened is people like you have been brainwashed into thinking things are worse than yesteryear.

 

[poorboy]

Thank you for making me laugh tonight. I also enjoyed your revised definition of homicide...feel free to quote your source for this little tidbit.

Well since you asked, here it is.

"Coroner Vincent Stancato, in his summary to the jury, suggested the jury "give serious consideration" to a finding of homicide, a neutral term that indicates the person was killed by someone else."

http://www.canada.com/story.html?id=3e7715c3-0354-40ba-9547-44dc3271b17e

There you have it. Homicide is not murder, but murders are homicides. You ask someone to shoot to kill you because you don't want to live, it's homicide, not murder. You shoot someone and they die in the lawful execution of your duties, it's homicide, not murder. You kill someone defending yourself who is trying to kill you, it's homicide, not murder. Get the picture?

But wait! It's not just the Coroner's Office that says homicide is not murder, the Criminal Code does too! First and second degree murder are homicides, but Manslaughter is homicide is too.

What I find funny is how facts provided by Statistics Canada and the definition provided by the Coronor's Office and the Criminal Code makes you laugh.

Your ignorance of gun control, the facts surrounding it and unfounded beliefs makes ME laugh.

There are more guns in Canada now than there has ever been in the history of Canada, yet the homicide rates associated with guns has been on the decline since the 70's. The removal of lead in gasoline has a more direct correlation to lower homicide rates than gun control. Obama has been the greatest gun salesman in the history of the United States, and this trend has overflowed to Canada.

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2015/12/10/us/gun-sales-terrorism-obama-restrictions.html?_r=0

 

[SkyRider]

Shades of Sammy Yatim. The 14 year old girl wanted to be killed by police.

 

[TESLAMotors]

No one seriously injured except for one kid (who will live).

She sucks at stabbing people

Or she was really out of shape, a larger girl maybe?

 

[twizz]

Shades of Sammy Yatim. The 14 year old girl wanted to be killed by police.

Sounds more like she wanted to accomplish what Dylan Klebold and Eric Harris did.

 

[twizz]

Reminds me of my high school days not too long ago. We had our fair share of violence and there were times that I thought I would leave the school in handcuffs or on a stretcher on particular days.

 

[Bud Plug]

Too many people move too quickly from a fact - a girl stabbed 8 people with a knife - to looking for a theory which might mitigate or even justify these actions. Ironically, if the crime is rape, we're told its wrong to "blame the victim", but it seems that some are pretty quick to "exonerate the perpetrator" in crimes involving teenagers (which is really just a variant, especially in this case, of blaming the victim).

The flaw in the approach that social engineers are taking in relation to bullying is that they are completely focussed on one side of the equation. The "problem" is attributed 100% to the person who is teasing, harassing, insulting, or doing anything else that is currently defined as "bullying". There needs to be some focus on why some kids are not able to cope with even a normal amount of teasing from their friends and peers. Some of these kids are ticking time bombs. Even if they manage to get through school in a bubble of protection, nothing will insulate them from criticism, teasing and insults that they WILL encounter in the real world. People need the skills to cope with this inevitable aspect of life.

However, responding to teasing and harassment with physical violence is never an acceptable way of coping. You cannot respond to verbal harassment by escalating matters to a physical confrontation. That might have been what our fathers taught us back in the day, but today that leads to criminal charges and civil lawsuits. We've got to stop looking for excuses for violence. It's sending the wrong message to kids.

 

[AK-47]

Maybe schools need to create some type of penalty box for bullies like they have in hockey......LOL

 

[LickingGravity]

My first thought was how I was glad we have gun laws and she had knife not an assault rifle. My second thought how I was glad that that someone like Forcillo wasn't involved. Both knee-jerk reactions to be sure but such are the times we live in.