On Wednesday morning, chaos overtook Franklin Regional Senior High School in Murrysville, Pennsylvania when a student brought two kitchen knives to school and proceeded to go on a stabbing rampage. Alex Hribal, the suspected stabber, was seemingly just going around stabbing "whoever was in his way". Twenty students and one security officer at the school were stabbed, four of them in critical condition. Hribal is currently being held in jail without bond and is being charged as an adult, though his lawyer is apparently working to get him psychologically evaluated to possibly change his court standing to juvenile rather than adult.
I think it is a really good thing that he is being held without bond for his actions. In the article, quotes from the attacker's lawyer seem to victimize him rather than those who were actually stabbed or injured. They make him sound like an innocent little boy who made a mistake, but as we all know, saying "sorry" doesn't fix the world. I think it is absolutely ridiculous to try to push the sympathy to the stabber. I also don't think that his young age should get him a shorter jail system. It seems that all too often, young people are given too much of a break for their actions, using young age as a justification for wrongdoing.
http://us.cnn.com/2014/04/09/justice/pennsylvania-school-stabbing/index.html
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