Is anybody paying attention to all of this madness in China? Today a man walked into a small elementary school in China with a huge knife and “hacked” to death 7 students and the teacher, before going home and killing himself. On April 30th a man went into a similar schooled armed with a hammer and beat 5 kids with it, just before dousing himeself in gasoline and setting himself on fire. These are just 2 examples in a recent string of violent attacks on very young students in Chinese schools. People can’t seem to figure out what is causing these attacks. The government is stating that due to an execution of a doctor charged with a similar school attack, we are seeing a string of copycat occurances. Apparently these are random guys that just snap due to whatever stressful circumstances they are under, and all are choosing to go into small elementary schools and attack the children. What would you think is contributing to this crisis? Mental instability? How much blame can be placed on the government’s shoulders?
Link : http://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/asiapcf/05/11/china.school.attack/index.html?hpt=T1
sick. poor kids, I just want to know why them?
Dang! If they had gun rights and guns they wouldn’t have to hack those poor kids to death. What a mess…
It is disturbing. I would think that they’re angry, bitter and jealous of people who are happy. Striking at children is striking at other’s happiness when you have none yourself. I would say it is born out of uncontrolled mental illness, too.
Not to point fingers or anything…but China has what 1.2 billion people in it? 4 times more than the US? How often do we have some nut bag going on one killing spree or another? Schools, McDonalds, Snipers you name it we got it.
“How much blame can be put on the governments shoulders”? Same as just about anywhere. That being said I think you’re giving governments WAY to much credit for actually having an effect on peoples lives regardless of the form it takes 
~Matt
Not to point fingers or anything…but China has what 1.2 billion people in it? 4 times more than the US? How often do we have some nut bag going on one killing spree or another? Schools, McDonalds, Snipers you name it we got it.
“How much blame can be put on the governments shoulders”? Same as just about anywhere. That being said I think you’re giving governments WAY to much credit for actually having an effect on peoples lives regardless of the form it takes
I would agree. What intrigues me the most I think it why these guys, being so outraged, are rushing to the local elementary school to kill kids. When that nut flew his plane into the IRS building I was thinking ok, he was furious with the government and his finances, so he lashed out at the major government agency in that field. I don’t understand how so many of these guys draw a connection between despair in their own lives and killing kids at school. As far as government responsibility, could be some , could be none. I was hoping someone might come up with a way of thinking about this that I haven’t yet.
I think it can be directly attributed to the prevalence of firearms in Chinese Society–and by extension if you take away their guns the level of violence will drop in a commensurate manner.
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Not to point fingers or anything…but China has what 1.2 billion people in it? 4 times more than the US? How often do we have some nut bag going on one killing spree or another? Schools, McDonalds, Snipers you name it we got it.
“How much blame can be put on the governments shoulders”? Same as just about anywhere. That being said I think you’re giving governments WAY to much credit for actually having an effect on peoples lives regardless of the form it takes
I would agree. What intrigues me the most I think it why these guys, being so outraged, are rushing to the local elementary school to kill kids. When that nut flew his plane into the IRS building I was thinking ok, he was furious with the government and his finances, so he lashed out at the major government agency in that field. I don’t understand how so many of these guys draw a connection between despair in their own lives and killing kids at school. As far as government responsibility, could be some , could be none. I was hoping someone might come up with a way of thinking about this that I haven’t yet.
I’m going to go with the fact that these people commiting these acts of violence seem to need to assert a certain level of power and kids won’t fight back as they are tiny and are easy targets to full grown men who have probably never had a say so in their lives. It’s sick, just sick.
China is going through massive cultural and economic changes, which has got to leave a lot of people feeling estranged and powerless. That in itself makes violence understandable (not excusable though). Add to that the fact that the one child policy in a culture that values boys over girls means that men out number women by a significant factor, so there are a lot of single, lonely men who don’t have families of their own. Maybe attacking children is their way of taking out their frustration on people who have what they want, i.e. a family and child?
Tha’s my $0.02 Dr. Phil analysis.