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Background story, Ex white supremacist leader and army veteran shot up a Sikh temple, 6 dead.

His community under attack, Sikh Temple of Wisconsin president Satwant Singh Kaleka fought back with all his strength and a simple butter knife, trying to stab a murderous gunman before taking two fatal gunshots to the leg.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/story/2012 ... eroes.html

Not sure how useful it would have been, but a real knife would work a lot better than a butter knife.

probably gonna go with the user here, i could do some damage with a butter knife in the life or death situation. jmo, though.

No, another gun could have saved a few lives.

Very sad indeed...

Dench wrote:No, another gun could have saved a few lives.

We don't have a "like" button. So . . . +1 on that.

I'm confused, which is not all that unusual before my first cup of coffee, but aren't all Sihk males required by their religion to carry a specific type of knife called a Kirpan pretty much all the time?

That's right Paul, but it seems to be more ceremonial nowadays than a weapon.
In this case it prooved better than nothing though.

The Deacon wrote:I'm confused, which is not all that unusual before my first cup of coffee, but aren't all Sihk males required by their religion to carry a specific type of knife called a Kirpan pretty much all the time?

Yes, but a kirpan tattoo (done with a high iron content ink) is done a lot more frequently these days

Monocrom wrote:We don't have a "like" button. So . . . +1 on that.

Make it +2.

Monocrom wrote:We don't have a "like" button. So . . . +1 on that.

Make it +2.

The Deacon wrote:I'm confused, which is not all that unusual before my first cup of coffee, but aren't all Sihk males required by their religion to carry a specific type of knife called a Kirpan pretty much all the time?

Many are either permanently fixed into the sheath or not sharpened to comply with local laws, and not all Sikhs carry kirpans.

Dench wrote:No, another gun could have saved a few lives.

So you are saying stabbing the gun man with a sharp knife instead of a butter knife would have no effect?

Maybe he means, Never bring a knife to a gun fight...

RIP to the victims.

jzmtl wrote:
So you are saying stabbing the gun man with a sharp knife instead of a butter knife would have no effect?

Like all these incidents, the "shoulda, coulda, woulda" type second guessing does absolutely no good and, in some cases insults the memory of those who died.