Next time there's a guy with a knife on a streetcar call a teacher, and keep it secret from the cops.
Did the teacher have body armour, pepper spray and a baton? Never mind an armed partner, and three other armed back-up teams.
Female student arrested after 8 stabbed at Dunbarton High School in Pickering
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Did the teacher have body armour, pepper spray and a baton? Never mind an armed partner, and three other armed back-up teams.
In hockey there's also a penalty for diving.
Further, if you respond to a an insult, or even minor contact like a "face wash", with a punch or slash, it's you who will be going to the penalty box (or if you both go, you'll be getting the extra penalty).
There's been no evidence that Sammy Yatim wanted anything but to get home to his family. He hurt no one and was no real threat to anyone. What's the basis for your callous snap-judgement about that poor girl?
He's buying into the defence's argument. Which of course they manufactured for the trial. Because until the trial nobody had even presented this argument because there were no facts to substantiate it.
her blog has her saying it for days she was going to do it. she even says her mom told her not to. man, her mom is going to get burned for not turning her into police.
Here's the thing. People are saying it is great that Nate (the mall cop) and the teachers were able to apprehend the culprit without the use of firearm (because the didn't have firearms) but I fear one day a mall cop or a teacher will get seriously hurt or killed trying to stop an armed attacker.
Yeah, she said she wanted suicide by cop and I suspect Sammy Yatim also wanted suicide by cop.
Read my above posts. Gun laws don't help. They did absolutely nothing to prevent the last shooting in La Loche, Sk.
If a person wants to shoot someone with a firearm, a law is not going to stop them.
The issue in the vast majority of cases stems from Mental Health issues. It's like blaming a car for killing a pedestrian when in fact it was the drunk driver behind the wheel.
That's what the courts try and do on a case by case basis, not a ban, like they are trying to do with firearms.
Vehicles kill more people than firearms in Canada and the U.S.
In what century do you come from? That used to be what was happening in those upper class English public schools in the 19th century, where newcomers were sytematically bullied in order that they could develop this English 'stiff upper lip'... so that they could face the enemy standing at attention in battle order without flinching and showing emotion in front of the troops. What they produced instead were psychopaths and generations of sexual deviants, obsessed with being caned by mistress. Bullying also teaches people that the law doesn't apply to them and they can do it in adult life.
Bullying often leads to physical interaction. Just touching someone without their permission is criminal assault, but is hardly seen like that in schools. People have a right to carry out their activities without being assaulted and harrassed. That includes school too. People get picked upon because of their differences, and they get picked upon by people who gang up together. There were probably warning signs and teachers should have spotted them. But too often, bullying gets written off as 'kids will be kids' and notions that kids cannot be evil. Psychopathic behaviour starts in school and will carry out in adult life. The mother, if she had any inkling, is also responsible for not bringing it up with school authorities. Some resort to suicide because they feel they have nothing to lose and have no avenue because the system tells them to simply buck up. In this case, she had probably decided that she had nothing to lose, but was going to give payback first.
Bullying is visible in a school environment, and teaching staff have some responsibility when they look the other way.
Until the trial, there are no arguments either way, just fat-chewing. Same after the trial, a for instance would be Sky's speculation about suicide by cop, unsupported by any evidence.
At the trial, no one presented any evidence that Yatim wanted to do anything but get home. Chew away. You might even address the case at hand; that would be more interesting.
If you read her blog, supply the URL. If you only know what someone told you the blog said, who was that? Why should we belive you quoted them accurately, or that they had any accueate knowledge
Enough with the groundless gossip and broken telephone hearsay, "I heard from someone who heard from someone, who heard…" You guys read like a bunch of 14 year-olds whipping up a FaceBook frenzy.
And we know how factual and reliable 14 year-olds are.
Since you're determined to be off topic: No one* has seriously proposed a ban on firearms. Not even in Canada, let alone the US where bearing arms is a Right. Much like roadside breath tests, many authorities have proposed serious mandatory background checks to try to weed out the dangerous individuals. And that would be case by case.
Shall we get back to the topic at hand? Or discuss guns intelligently, more than a sentence at a time?
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*Just as general as 'they', on the other side.
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