Man...... http://www.ryot.org/22-children-stabbed-at-chinese-elementary-school/35114 By Staff, Associated Press A knife-wielding man injured 22 children and one adult outside a primary school in central China as students were arriving for classes Friday, police said, the latest in a series of periodic rampage attacks at Chinese schools and kindergartens. The attack in the Henan province village of Chengping happened shortly before 8 a.m., said a police officer from Guangshan county, where the village is located. The attacker, 36-year-old villager Min Yingjun, is now in police custody, said the officer, who declined to give her name, as is customary among Chinese civil servants. A Guangshan county hospital administrator said the man first attacked an elderly woman, then students, before being subdued by security guards who have been posted across China following a spate of school attacks in recent years. He said there were no deaths among the nine students admitted, although two badly injured children had been transferred to better-equipped hospitals outside the county. A doctor at Guangshan’s hospital of traditional Chinese medicine said that seven students had been admitted, but that none were seriously injured. Neither the hospital administrator nor the doctor would give his name. Children likely between 6-11 years old It was not clear how old the injured children were, but Chinese primary school pupils are generally 6-11 years old. A notice posted on the Guangshan county government’s website confirmed the number of injured and said an emergency response team had been set up to investigate the attacks. No motive was given for the stabbings, which echo a string of similar assaults against schoolchildren in 2010 that killed nearly 20 and wounded more than 50. The most recent such attack took place in August, when a knife-wielding man broke into a middle school in the southern city of Nanchang and stabbed two students before fleeing. Most of the attackers have been mentally disturbed men involved in personal disputes or unable to adjust to the rapid pace of social change in China, underscoring grave weaknesses in the antiquated Chinese medical system’s ability to diagnose and treat psychiatric illness. In one of the worst incidents, a man decribed as an unemployed, middle-aged doctor killed eight children with a knife in March 2010 to vent his anger over a thwarted romantic relationship. ~ RYOT
f***ed up world we live in. Shot and killed 20 students between ages 5-10 years old in CT, USA; and now in China. Guns control .. but use knife.
That's what my bro and I said this morning, we live in a fcked up world... It seem like there are more people with mental illnesses.
I read something on one of those Chinese web sites which essentially claimed that the Sandy Hook shooting was getting tremendous repeated coverage on all of Chinese media, while this particular stabbing spree was barely mentioned and then disappeared off the news network. That's so typical of the PRC.
That's what I was trying to show. The fact that in America, something horrible happens, gets all the attention, whereas its happening all over the world. And having gun bans doesnt necessarily avoid anything.
I beg to differ; in China, none of the kids died. One can therefore say that had the same gun ban existed in the US, a nut may still have stabbed those kids, but likely would not have killed any of them. That alone is a VERY BIG DIFFERENCE in avoiding all those deaths. See the following video: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/12/19/china-school-attack-video_n_2329511.html
