Shocking Sword attack in Sweden

ST4 said:
There is that, but it shows that people kill people even without guns.

I wonder what the motive was?
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There's no doubt that people can kill with literally almost anything if they really want to - stones, cushions and even frying pans :D. Guns just make it so much easier to kill things, lots of things, quickly.

I haven't heard a motive yet but I expect it won't be much different to all the other cowboy nutjobs.
 
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Four patients are currently being treated in hospital, one teacher and two students (I would assume the fourth is the attacker?). They're all said to be in a serious condition, hopefully there are no more deaths to come.

Towards the bottom of the page the BBC say that this is the first school attack in Sweden since 1961, so thankfully they are very rare.
 
ZoneV said:
There's no doubt that people can kill with literally almost anything if they really want to - stones, cushions and even frying pans :D. Guns just make it so much easier to kill things, lots of things, quickly.

I haven't heard a motive yet but I expect it won't be much different to all the other cowboy nutjobs.
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I am hoping that when I am killed it is suffocation by Taylor swifts thighs!!!
 
neil_g said:
and so would the police units deployed to such an incident in the UK.

:thinking:
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Regular unarmed police units would get sent too, but would keep back if possible until firearms arrived, unless people were at risk. More likely a dog handler or tazer officer would arrive before firearms though, especially in more remote forces
 
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The last school attack in Sweden was in 1961 so hardly competes with the USA.
 
If suicide is a crime they're near the top of the league I think.
 
 
A picture has emerged of the chap before the attack, apparently posing in the school with pupils. Complete with black garb, black helmet and some kind of black face covering (paintballing mask or bandana?).

Looks like another run-of-the-mill nutjob.

#looneytunes
 
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Byker28i said:
Or scotland
http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/scotland-c...an-attacks-policeman-claymore-rampage-1513849

Or Liverpool
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/merseyside/3034983.stm

We had sword attacks in Cheltenham
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/ukn...-after-assailant-tries-to-move-in-nearby.html

and recently in Gloucester
http://www.gloucestercitizen.co.uk/...ack-lone-man/story-25826078-detail/story.html

And those are the ones I can instantly think of.
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In the last case, it seems that the weapon was intended to intimidate rather than be used, so it would make little difference if it were a sword or gun.
In the other incidents, it appears the wielder was intending to hurt people - and the assailants managed one hand cut-off, two hands cut and one murder. Whilst obviously very serious. I think the results would have been far more severe had the assailants had firearms.
 
ST4 said:
I like shocking as a word...I am still shocked of such savage and lunatic behaviours. I am looking forward to learning more about the perps, but its such a sad event. I am shocked. Shock may swing to outrage later....
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I like asinine as a word.
 
Rapscallion said:
FTFY !
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In Internet slang, a troll (/ˈtroʊl/, /ˈtrɒl/) is a person who sows discord on the Internet by starting arguments or upsetting people, by posting inflammatory,[1]extraneous, or off-topic messages in an online community (such as a newsgroup, forum, chat room, or blog) with the deliberate intent of provoking readers into an emotional response[2] or of otherwise disrupting normal on-topic discussion,[3] often for their own amusement.


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_troll

You are trolling...
 
Apparently the Police have found "interesting" things at his address.

My money's on swastikas etc and he's a young loner into his far-right, anti immigration stuff.
 
Here we go :rolleyes:
 
Don't take this off topic of the OP otherwise people will be getting time out
 
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