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jlf1961 -> RE: From the other side of the world (12/14/2012 4:34:20 PM)
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ORIGINAL: meatcleaver
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ORIGINAL: jlf1961
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Man slashes 22 children near China school
BEIJING -- 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.
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Not as bad as the massacre at the school in CT today, but still this is unnerving. But according to the story, this is not the first such incident.
It seems that children are the preferred target for the disillusioned and troubled. This in and of itself says a lot for human civilization, IMO.
This doesn't seem a sensible post on a day were 20 children are guned down in an American school.
Gee are you saying that since 20 kids in the US were killed that the 22 children slashed and stabbed do not warrant some consideration?
The point I was trying to make, that seems to elude you, is that children are being targeted in other places around the world. I made it clear that since no child in this incident died, it was not as bad as the killing of 20 children.
I would like to point out that in the civil war in Syria that over 1400 children have been killed, an untold number have been killed in the violence in Africa, and in 2010 1500 children died in the US from child abuse and neglect, the latest data currently available.
Yes, 20 children killed by a single gunman is tragic and terrible. But the number of children that die world wide due to violence and neglect is staggering.
Human society is turning on its children, a point that is clear when you look at the numbers.
I just cited another example.
By the way, over 3000 children are killed by gun related violence in the US each year.
And I am a gun ownership proponent.
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