22 children slashed near chinese school

• Kenny? wrote on 2012-12-14 21:53
  http://www.latimes.com/news/world/worldnow/la-man-slashes-22-children-near-china-school-20121214,0,6383015.story
  
  

  A man with a knife slashed 22 children and one adult outside an elementary school in Henan province Friday morning, China's worst such incident in more than a year.
  The attack was reminiscent of a spate of knife attacks on schoolchildren that took place across China in 2010. In most cases, the attackers were unemployed middle-aged men, leading to speculation that the assaults stemmed from economic and social discontent.
  
  Friday's attack occurred at about 7:40 a.m. as children were arriving outside the gate of Chenpeng Village’s Wanquan Elementary School. The suspect, Min Yingjun, 36, allegedly slashed an elderly woman as well as the children. Local propaganda officials said later that Min had a psychological illness.
  
  Pictures uploaded to the Internet by bystanders show family members carrying young children with bandages on their heads. The local reports state that four seriously wounded children were transferred to other hospitals for intensive care.
  
  The scene of the attack lies within the limits of Xinyang City, a mountainous and poor municipality 600 miles south of Beijing. The region is renowned for maojian, a bitter and aromatic green tea grown in the mountains. Xinyang is also known as one of the areas hardest hit by the famine that accompanied Communist Party agricultural policies in the 1950s and 1960s. More recent government policy has encouraged the adult population in rural Henan to migrate to cities to look for employment.
  
  In another incident, a 25-year-old man was arrested Thursday night in Beijing after a series of incidents in which young women were slashed on the subway with a box cutter. The New China News Agency said the young man had recently been jilted by a girlfriend and wanted "revenge on society."
  
  In 2010, nearly 20 children were killed and 50 wounded in a string of copycat incidents around central China. China has strict gun control laws, so knives are the weapon of choice in violent crimes.

• Mentosftw wrote on 2012-12-14 21:57
  Revenge on society because his girlfriend dumped him? That's just pathetic.
• Marimaster wrote on 2012-12-14 22:14
  Mm that girlfriend is in for it now if she is the cause of this.
• Cho wrote on 2012-12-14 22:53

  Quote from Marimaster;998317:

  Mm that girlfriend is in for it now if she is the cause of this.

  
  
  It never said her side of the story, so can't blame her for something that she didn't do...
  
  It's unfortunate that people resort to these kinds of things to quench the aggravation of their own problems. How hard is it to handle a break-up in a calm manner?
• Cynic wrote on 2012-12-14 23:38

  Quote from Marimaster;998317:

  Mm that girlfriend is in for it now if she is the cause of this.

  
  
  Regardless of whether or not she triggered such a reaction from him, he and only he was responsible for carrying it out.
• BobYoMeowMeow wrote on 2012-12-15 01:10
  Condolences to the parents of those children
• Kenny? wrote on 2012-12-15 14:30

  Quote from Marimaster;998317:

  Mm that girlfriend is in for it now if she is the cause of this.

  
  
  If you're going to say something like that- Get off my thread.
• RealityBreak wrote on 2012-12-16 04:14
  Killing children seems to be all the rage nowadays...
• Kitkat wrote on 2012-12-18 10:12
  I could think of better ways to release my anger on my girlfriend for dumping me than killing 22 kids.
• Spartaaaaa wrote on 2012-12-23 21:18
  Time for "knife-control" legislation?
• Yoorah wrote on 2012-12-24 03:36
  The (rather obvious, I must say) point here was that had he had access to a gun, those kids would be dead. And he didn't do it because the girl dumped him, he just happened to be crazy.
• EndlessDreams wrote on 2012-12-24 04:26
  Good thing there are highly strict gun control laws there. No need to have citizens having semi-automatic guns...