At least 10 people injured in stabbings on Tokyo train

[TheProle]

Source: CNN

Ten people were stabbed on a train in Tokyo by a man with a knife Friday night, according to the Tokyo Fire Department.

The department responded to a call at 8:38 p.m. and found victims with blood stains when they arrived at the scene. All victims were conscious and one person walked away on their own, the department said. No deaths have been reported.

According to state media NHK, the suspect walked to a nearby convenience store and turned himself in, saying to the clerk, "I am the suspect of the crime that's playing in the news right now. I'm tired of running."

Read more: https://www.cnn.com/2021/08/06/asia/tokyo-train-stabbing-intl/index.html

[TygrBright]

1. Trying to imagine the body count if the knife had been an automatic gun w/ expanded magazine. n/t

[Ferrets are Cool]

2. America: Hey, hold my Miller Lite.

On a kinder note, there are no reported deaths.

[Marcuse]

3. Next comes the ammosexual sarcasm about banning knives.

[Dial H For Hero]

6. At the risk of subverting expectations, I will make no such remark.

For that matter, I will freely grant that (all things being equal) an unskilled individual bent upon mass murder will
be able to inflict greater casualties with virtually any modern firearm than they would with a knife.

This having been said, it should be noted that Japanese civilians have never owned firearms in significant numbers, whereas here in the US it has been quite the opposite.

With as many as half a billion guns in general circulation, the majority of which having at this point no paper (or electronic) trail, and in excess of a hundred million more being imported and/or manufactured every decade…to say the genie is out of the bottle is an understatement of the highest order.

In the USA guns are here to stay, with all the consequences, be they for good or ill, associated with them.

[Cerridwen]

4. "just wanted to kill any women who looked happy, anyone,"

"Tokyo Metropolitan Police say the man admitted the charge and confessed he "just wanted to kill any women who looked happy, anyone," NHK reported."

[Sapient Donkey]

5. What causes people to get like that

Is there even a solution to that? I mean, obviously mental health treatment, but what if they don’t seek it out even if readily available?

[Archae]

7. In this case, looks like an "incel."

Frustrated sexually.

[bucolic_frolic]

8. Stabbers have got to be among the most twisted of them all

All that blood. All over. Any studies tying them together psychologically? I mean what are they, frustrated meat packer workers?

Ewww. Just twisted, sick, psychotic people.