For those who engage in debates with hot headed gun control folks today. (My Debate thread was closed by AL, but this is important information to have at hand in the coming days; mods feel free lock discussion if you'd like).
TODAY - halfway around the world:
http://www.aljazeera.com/news/asia-pacific/2012/12/2012121481220620325.html
Synopsis;
* This is not a problem unique to the United States.
* In countries where guns are TOTALLY outlawed, homicidal maniacs STILL find a way to commit mass murder in weapon free zones.
* The ONLY viable way to stop a mass murder in progress is to either wait for the attacker to choose to stop (via escape, surrender, or suicide), or to use force to stop them.
(I hope this doesn't earn me an infraction - this counter argument is relevant to debates on Right to Keep and Bear Arms. -- thank you)
TODAY - halfway around the world:
http://www.aljazeera.com/news/asia-pacific/2012/12/2012121481220620325.html
At least 22 children and one adult have been injured in a knife attack outside a primary school in central China, police say.
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China has witnessed a spate of school stabbings in recent years, leading to more security guards being deployed across the vast country.
In March 2010, eight children were murdered in Nanping, Fujian province, by 41-year-old knifeman Zheng Minsheng. The attacker was executed a month later, hours before 33-year-old Chen Kangbing injured 16 students and a teacher at Hongfu Primary School in Leizhou, Guangdong.
In April 29 2010, 28 school children - mostly four-year-olds - were stabbed alongside two teachers and a security guard in Taixing, Jiangsu. On April 30, Wang Yonglai committed suicide after using a hammer to attack preschool children in Weifang, Shandong.
Further attacks in the months and years following have left 11 children and four adults dead, and several more injured
Synopsis;
* This is not a problem unique to the United States.
* In countries where guns are TOTALLY outlawed, homicidal maniacs STILL find a way to commit mass murder in weapon free zones.
* The ONLY viable way to stop a mass murder in progress is to either wait for the attacker to choose to stop (via escape, surrender, or suicide), or to use force to stop them.
(I hope this doesn't earn me an infraction - this counter argument is relevant to debates on Right to Keep and Bear Arms. -- thank you)