(GRAPHIC): Multiple people reported stabbed, fatalities in vicinity of a Black Lives Matter protest in Reading, UK
Video is still up on twitter

The idea of multiple people being stabbed so quickly is tragic. I cannot help but muse on how many more people could have been killed in the same amount of time if the person had access to a gun, to say nothing of a semi-automatic weapon of war.

Anti-gun control types will point to this incident as an example of their adage, "Guns don't kill people. People kill people." The second part of that saying is plain truth. The first part is willful stupidity disguised as clever word play.

Obviously, a gun is an inanimate object when left untouched. But its design is for killing and it does so more effectively than most other hand-held objects. We gun-control "nuts" know that people killing people won't stop because there are few guns available. We consider any downward trend in murder rates to be a good thing. Stupid us, huh?

The gun-loving folks both here is Oz and the USA spent a lot of time creating fake news of murder and crime rates when the strict regulations were applied here in the 90s.

Police have declared a knife rampage that killed three in Reading as a terror incident.

The man arrested at the scene yesterday is Khairi Saadallah, a 25-year-old refugee from Libya, The Telegraph can reveal.

Mr Saadallah was detained by police in Forbury Gardens on Saturday evening.

Witnesses claimed he approached a group of middle aged men who had been sat drinking in the park and suddenly began stabbing at them.

Three men died in the attack and one other remains in hospital in a stable condition. Another has been discharged.

It is understood Mr Saadallah came to Bri'un several years ago as a refugee following the civil war in Libya.

Mental health is being considered a major factor in the incident, security source said.

Armed counter terrorism police raided his flat in nearby Basingstoke Road late on Saturday night and removed a number of items including a large circular saw.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2020/06/21/reading-stabbings-park-three-dead-killed-knife-attack/

Source: BBC

Two of the three Reading attack victims have been named as Joe Ritchie-Bennett and James Furlong – both were members of the LGBT+ community.

In the early evening of Saturday (June 20), a lone man began sporadically stabbing people, wounding several, in Forbury Gardens, Reading, according to the Thames Valley Police.

James Furlong and Joe Ritchie-Bennett were among countless people sat in the park, enjoying the sunny weather as an earlier Black Lives Matter protest petered out, when the assailant began his attack, The Mirror reported.

Reading attack victim James Furlong was a ‘proud gay man who wanted equality for all’.

Furlong, 36, was a teacher from the Reading area, his family said in a statement issued via the local police agency.

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