[BeerBurner]

The 12-year-old boy had finished his homework and was playing a video game when he heard his mother cry out. Rushing to her aid, he found her on the kitchen floor, straddled by a fellow resident of their Prince George's County boarding house, the man's hands wrapped tightly around her neck, the boy said yesterday.

"I kept saying, 'Stop! Stop! Stop!' " the boy said, describing the events of Monday night. "But he just ignored me. He didn't stop. He just kept hurting her."
The boy said he grabbed a knife and swung, slashing 64-year-old Salomon Noubissie across the neck and opening an artery. Noubissie was fatally wounded.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...l?nav=hcmodule

Assuming the story, as presented, is accurate, I can say "Rock on, little guy!" (although at 5'6" and 175 pounds, I'd hardly call him "little"!) It has me wondering what the crime rate would be like if more people actually fought back.

BB.

[}{arlequin]

i'm fairly sure some one out there is trying to make an argument that the video game made this kid turn violent...

[hoophead]

...or that we need to ban knives.

[Jazzbass]

Originally Posted by hoophead

...or that we need to ban knives.

Well, that is the only logical solution to ending knife violence.

[good hands]

Originally Posted by hoophead

...or that we need to ban knives.

We only need to ban switch blades as they are " semi-automatic " weapons.

[}{arlequin]

sporks ftw!!

[Trak Ratt]

Originally Posted by Jazzbass

Well, that is the only logical solution to ending knife violence.

I sent my application in for a "knife carry" permit I've seen thiis sort of thing before and how soon it can go bad.

[BeerBurner]

You can have my butter knife when you pry it from my cold, dead, buttery hands!

BB.

[edevinney]

We laugh but those thought leaders in the UK police and press have been banging the drum about Knife Culture for a couple of years now.

That said, I'm with BB. When asparagus knives are outlawed, only outlaws will have asparagus knives: