schlaBAM Posted December 14, 2012 Share Posted December 14, 2012 On top of the shooting, this also happened today in China. Disgusting. What is wrong with the world? http://www.theglobea...552/?cmpid=rss1 A man stabbed 22 primary school students in a knife attack in China on Friday, officials said, the latest in a series of assaults. The attacker “has been detained”, said a spokesman for the Guangshan county government in the central province of Henan, where the stabbing happened. “Twenty-two elementary school students were stabbed, so was an adult villager” but none of the victims died, the official, who declined to give his name, told AFP. The state-run China News Service said a man attacked the students with a knife outside an elementary school, resulting in injuries which were “not life threatening”. It did not give the exact ages of the children. China has seen several violent attacks against children over the past two years, including a spate of five incidents in 2010 which killed 15 children and two adults and wounded more than 80. The assaults have forced authorities to increase security around schools and led to calls for more research into their root causes. Violent crime has been on the rise in China in recent decades as the nation’s economy has boomed and the gap between rich and poor has expanded rapidly. Studies have also described a rise in the prevalence of mental disorders, some of them linked to stress as the pace of life becomes faster and socialist support systems wither. But authorities say that murder, which carries the death penalty, remains far less common than in most Western countries. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Special Ed Posted December 14, 2012 Share Posted December 14, 2012 Crazy people all over the world I guess. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TOMapleLaughs Posted December 14, 2012 Share Posted December 14, 2012 What is this? Some kinda f'd up Cold War going on now? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RUPERTKBD Posted December 14, 2012 Share Posted December 14, 2012 Another sad story, but I think it would be good for gun advocates to read this. None of the victims died. Would the same be true if the assailant had a semi-automatic weapon? But it's not easy to get those in China.... So for those who say "nutjobs will just find another way", I say, "that's correct". With much less success. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wetcoaster Posted December 14, 2012 Share Posted December 14, 2012 Even with stringent gun control incidents do happen as there are mentally ill in all countries. However if one has to resort to a weapon other than an automatic firearm, then the carnage is likely to be significantly reduced as occurred in this attack on 22 elementary students. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Electro Rock Posted December 14, 2012 Share Posted December 14, 2012 Only a strong police state, where weapons are tightly controlled, can prevent such tragedies, oh wait... Serious child murderers, pick on somebody your own size. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Master Mind Posted December 14, 2012 Share Posted December 14, 2012 Wow, another disgusting event. What a sickening world we live in. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Apricot Posted December 14, 2012 Share Posted December 14, 2012 I was going to post this in the other thread, didn't want to make a new topic. But this is sickening. Such a messed up and twisted world we live in. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stefan Posted December 14, 2012 Share Posted December 14, 2012 Only a strong police state, where weapons are tightly controlled, can prevent such tragedies, oh wait... Serious child murderers, pick on somebody your own size. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
etsen3 Posted December 14, 2012 Share Posted December 14, 2012 WTF. On the same day as the shooting? So f'ed up. Obviously going on a stabbing spree is terrible, but doing it at an elementary school is so much worse. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Electro Rock Posted December 14, 2012 Share Posted December 14, 2012 Yeah! Go on a stabbing spree in an office building! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Columbo Posted December 14, 2012 Share Posted December 14, 2012 This story has a great lesson. As gun advocates rightly claim, there are crazy people all over the world who will commit crimes no matter what. But today a guy with a knife in China stabs 22 people and kills no one; a guy with a gun in America shoots over 100 rounds and leaves 27 dead. Still don't think guns are the problem? F*ck you America. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stefan Posted December 14, 2012 Share Posted December 14, 2012 How about a biker bar or the like? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Buddhas Hand Posted December 14, 2012 Share Posted December 14, 2012 Another sad story, but I think it would be good for gun advocates to read this. None of the victims died. Would the same be true if the assailant had a semi-automatic weapon? But it's not easy to get those in China.... So for those who say "nutjobs will just find another way", I say, "that's correct". With much less success. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scott Hartnell's Mane Posted December 14, 2012 Share Posted December 14, 2012 Oh man...Stop the Madness......this is just unconscionable...I was already nearly physically ill reading about the CT incident...this is just too much for one day.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pears Posted December 14, 2012 Share Posted December 14, 2012 Wtf is going on??? First the shooting now a stabbing spree? Sickening Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jägermeister Posted December 14, 2012 Share Posted December 14, 2012 Another sad story, but I think it would be good for gun advocates to read this. None of the victims died. Would the same be true if the assailant had a semi-automatic weapon? But it's not easy to get those in China.... So for those who say "nutjobs will just find another way", I say, "that's correct". With much less success. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr.DirtyDangles Posted December 14, 2012 Share Posted December 14, 2012 Even with stringent gun control incidents do happen as there are mentally ill in all countries. However if one has to resort to a weapon other than an automatic firearm, then the carnage is likely to be significantly reduced as occurred in this attack on 22 elementary students. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. Ambien Posted December 14, 2012 Share Posted December 14, 2012 There needs to be knife-control laws passed, clearly knives are the problem here. And Twitter. And Facebook. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jägermeister Posted December 14, 2012 Share Posted December 14, 2012 There needs to be knife-control laws passed, clearly knives are the problem here. And Twitter. And Facebook. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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