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In reply to the discussion: To the 2nd amendment extremists - you have the blood of children on your hands [View all]AtheistCrusader
(33,982 posts)8 dead. http://news.sky.com/story/778981/eight-killed-in-china-stabbing-rampage
28 wounded. http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/30/world/asia/30china.html?_r=0
8 dead, five injured http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/china/2012-08/02/c_131756787.htm (Previous link to 8 dead was a year and a half old)
1 dead, five injured http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/china/2012-04/27/c_131556735.htm
7 injured http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/china/2012-01/20/c_131371126.htm
There's lots more. Another that started out as a guy running his car up on the sidewalk into a crowd, and then jumped out and started stabbing people... It's bad. It's hard to catalog them all, there are so many and the search terms start running over each other.
Now, there are other countries with similar gun control laws to China, like the UK. Here's 7 dead there, BUT, this is highly unusual for them. Suggesting a cultural difference that the US and China could possibly learn from.
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english2010/world/2011-08/15/c_131048781.htm
I totally agree that guns are more likely to produce a lethal wound, and can more easily injure more people at once. There is a reason we advanced, as a species, militarily, from edged and puncturing weapons, to firearms. I am simply cautioning that for one, these incidents are not unique to people with guns, nor are they unique to the united states.