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November 26, 2004

Good Thing They Ban Guns, Huh?

A school massacre in China claims eight lives.

The killer used a knife.

A man armed with a knife killed eight people Friday at a high school in central China (search) and wounded four others, a government news agency reported.

Police were searching for the attacker following the killings in Ruzhou, a city in Henan province, the Xinhua News Agency said. It didn't give any other details.

That's not even the scary part.

It's part of a trend in Red China:

China has suffered a series of knife attacks in schools and day-care centers in recent months, prompting orders by the central government for schools to hire guards and tighten security.

The earlier assaults left one child dead and injured a total of 42 people.

A man who slashed 25 children with a kitchen knife at a grade school in eastern China was executed Wednesday. Though no one was killed in that attack, a court ruled that the penalty was justified because the violence was "especially cruel."

In August, an employee with a history of schizophrenia killed one student and slashed 14 children and three teachers at a Beijing kindergarten.

Scarier still? I'm trying to think what would make US schools, with their moronic "Zero Tolerance" laws for even mentioning weapons in the school building, any safer. American schools, like Chinese ones, are statutorily disarmed; nutbars and criminals know that they have at least a few minutes to wreak havoc before anyone can bring any lethal force against them.

Posted by Mitch at November 26, 2004 01:58 PM | TrackBack
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Does this lend credence to the idea that it's the person, not the weapon who is bad? Couldn't be.

Posted by: Jarhead at November 26, 2004 03:55 PM

There actually was a similar attack here in the States this past week:

8 Students Injured in Ind. Knife Attack

This came shortly after those hunters in Wisconsin were shot. No outcry against knives as there was against guns, though. Go figure...

Posted by: Jinx McHue at November 28, 2004 09:03 PM

Hey, the link didn't go through. Here it is:

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=514&e=5&u=/ap/20041124/ap_on_re_us/school_stabbing

Posted by: Jinx McHue at November 28, 2004 09:10 PM
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