In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king. In the land of the disarmed, a hobo with a pair of scissors is a VERY dangerous thing.
NEW YORK – A homeless man armed with scissors attacked and wounded five people, including a one-year-old boy, in a New York City park busy with morning joggers and commuters, police said on Tuesday.
The victims, all of whom are expected to recover, were targeted at random, police said. A 36-year-old woman who was stabbed in the back is a “little more touch and go” than the others and was listed in critical condition, a New York Police Department spokesman said.
The attacks occurred around 8 a.m. EDT (1200 GMT) in Manhattan’s Riverside Park, which stretches for 4 miles (6.4 km) along the Hudson River.
A 32-year-old woman was slashed in the neck, a 35-year-old man was stabbed in the stomach and a 35-year-old father pushing his 18-month-old son in a stroller was slashed in the chest. The child also had a slash wound to his left arm, authorities said.
A witness helped subdue the suspect until police arrived. The victims, whose names have not been released, were being treated at a local hospital.
Now think of this story with the “Gun Death” rhetoric. SCISSORS, are common tools that every school hands out to their children, every teacher has a nice sharp pair or two at their desk, and these are given to damn near every warm body in an office of any kind.
Yet here in New York we have a violent, scary, and potentially deadly rampage by a crazed homeless man. Can you think of how this might look if just ONE of these bloodied victims had a gun?
Can you say the results would have been WORSE?
