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Lethal school . . . stabbing? slashing? fencing? . . . in Sweden
Nutbar attacks people with a sword. Kills one, injures four, gets shot multiple times but was taken alive. I guess guns are just that hard to come by in Sweden? No word on what type of sword in the news story. Mostly I'm curious to see how the Swedish media will handle this.
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Nutbar attacks people with a sword. Kills one, injures four, gets shot multiple times but was taken alive. I guess guns are just that hard to come by in Sweden? No word on what type of sword in the news story. Mostly I'm curious to see how the Swedish media will handle this. -
Perhaps he had seen Highlander one or two times too often
Several years ago we had a similar case, where someone ran amok with a Katana
although IIRC he only injured some people and killed noone, before he was stoppedTamsin (Lost Girl): "I am the Harbinger of Death. I arrive on winds of blessed air. Air that you no longer deserve."
Tamsin (Lost Girl): "He has fallen in battle and I must take him to the Einherjar in Valhalla" -
Now it's two dead. Beeb says the attacker was in his twenties, dressed in black, possibly wearing a Star Wars mask. And it was a "long sword." It sounds like perhaps he wanted to be a Sith Lord? Also, I was wrong, he only got shot once.Comment
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...so he was killing younglings.Click here if you're having trouble sleeping.
"We confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no large ones." - François de La RochefoucauldComment
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There can only be one.
(To soon?)Try http://wordforge.net/index.php for discussion and debate.Comment
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Guns run out of bullets, but swords never run out of stabs. On the other hand, the victim killing/maiming rate of a sword is far lower than that for a gun for the vast majority of attackers.“It is no use trying to 'see through' first principles. If you see through everything, then everything is transparent. But a wholly transparent world is an invisible world. To 'see through' all things is the same as not to see.”
― C.S. Lewis, The Abolition of ManComment
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Aye ... if I am direct witness of an Amok run, I would choose one with the sword a thousand time over one with a gun.Originally posted by pchang View Post
Especially if I can run faster than the attacker and have a better endurance than him.Tamsin (Lost Girl): "I am the Harbinger of Death. I arrive on winds of blessed air. Air that you no longer deserve."
Tamsin (Lost Girl): "He has fallen in battle and I must take him to the Einherjar in Valhalla"Comment
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Two people... that might be half the population of Sweden
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If one has a sword you take a chair and bang him on the head with it. good luck if he has a gunComment
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If you are lucky, the chair is made of steel and will deflect any bullets.“It is no use trying to 'see through' first principles. If you see through everything, then everything is transparent. But a wholly transparent world is an invisible world. To 'see through' all things is the same as not to see.”
― C.S. Lewis, The Abolition of ManComment
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It now appears the suspect (who has died) might have been some sort of neo-Nazi type. Hard to say. But he posed for photos before going on a rampage: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-34602621
Perhaps he watched the first Hellboy movie too many times, then? I really can't think of many Nazi-swordfight images in media we can blame this on for a pat answer.Comment
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Hellboy?
What does Hellboy have to do with swordfighting?
It would make more sense to assume he watched a little too often Ragnar Lothbrok ... reminiscing about the good ol´ times when Norsemen still went on a Viking, plundering fortunes and killing innocents
Tamsin (Lost Girl): "I am the Harbinger of Death. I arrive on winds of blessed air. Air that you no longer deserve."
Tamsin (Lost Girl): "He has fallen in battle and I must take him to the Einherjar in Valhalla"Comment
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He wanted to kill Trolls in Trollhattan...There's nothing wrong with the dream, my friend, the problem lies with the dreamer.Comment
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According to PBS, the last school killing in Sweden took place in 1961...There's nothing wrong with the dream, my friend, the problem lies with the dreamer.Comment
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Not swords precisely, but the first movie had an undead Nazi underling who did acrobatic murder-stunts with bladed tonfa. I can't think of any actual Nazi swordsmen.Originally posted by Proteus_MST View PostComment
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