8 children stabbed to death at Chinese school

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Source: Yahoo News

BEIJING – A former medical worker allegedly stabbed to death eight young children and wounded five others Tuesday in a bloody rampage outside an elementary school in eastern China.

The attacker struck in the morning as students arrived for classes, mingling with parents at the school gates before suddenly pulling out his knife and slashing children, according to witnesses interviewed on local television.

In the aftermath, doctors treated small children and bodies lay covered in bloody sheets after the attack at Nanping City Experimental Elementary School in Fujian province. Police officers manned a cordon around the school. Some comforted distraught parents.

China has witnessed a series of school attacks in recent years, most blamed on people with personal grudges or suffering from mental illness, leading to calls for improved security.

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My heart goes out to the families of the dead and wounded. Unfortunately, unstable people can lash out at society and cause lots of harm easily. The causes of their rage are personal, cultural and biological. Unfortunately, no society can stop all of them. Even becoming a nation of prisoners won't work. There are many acts of violence in prison.

Many people mistakenly believe that there are no mass killings with knives. That is not true. And if you ban knives, people like this nut/criminal can easily wreak equivalent damage with many other tools.

You have to socialize, treat, medicate or imprison the person. Banning tools won't work. Tools don't commit crimes.