Any kind of media from games to music to movies to literature can be used to fuel violent intentions. However I think the real issue at hand is clearly America's inadequate gun laws. There's no reason why anyone should own assault weapons that were clearly designed for war. Sure for the determined most anything can be used as a weapon such as the incident of an asian man who attacked a bunch of people with a knife. The thing about that though is that in that incident no one died.Archangel3371
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/School_attacks_in_China_(20102012)
March 2010
Main article:Nanping school massacreOn March 23, 2010, Zheng Minsheng ()[2]41,murdered eight children with a knifein an elementary school inNanping,[3]Fujianprovince;[4]The attack was widely reported inChinese media(called ),[2]sparking fears ofcopycat crimes.[4]Following a quick trial, Zheng Minsheng was executed about one month later on April 28.[3]
[edit]April 2010
Just a few hours after the execution of Zheng Minsheng in neighboring Fujian Province,[5]inLeizhou,[6]Guangdonganother knife-wielding man named Chen Kangbing, 33 ()[7]at Hongfu Primary School wounded 16 students and a teacher.[4]Chen Kangbing had been a teacher at a different primary school in Leizhou;[7]he wassentenced to deathby a court inZhanjiangin June.[8]
On April 29 inTaixing,[3]Jiangsu, 47-year-old Xu Yuyuan went to Zhongxin Kindergarten[9]and stabbed 28 students, two teachers and one security guard;[4]most of the Taixing students were 4 years old.[10]
On April 30, Wang Yonglai used a hammer to cause head injury to preschool children inWeifang,[3]Shandong, then used gasoline to commit suicide byself-immolation.[4]
[edit]May 2010
An attacker named Wu Huanming (), 48, killed seven children and two adults and injured 11 other persons with a cleaver at a kindergarten inHanzhong,Shaanxion May 12, 2010;[3]early reports wereremoved from the internet in China, for fear that mass coverage of such violence can provoke copycat attacks.[3][11]The attacker later committedsuicideat his house; he was the landlord of the school,[12]Shengshui Temple private kindergarten, and had been involved in an ongoing dispute with the school administrator about when the school would move out of the building.[12]
On May 18, 2010 at Hainan Institute of Science and Technology (), avocational collegeinHaikou,Hainan, more than 10 men[13]charged into adormitorywielding knives around 2:30 am;[14]after attacking the security guard and disabling security cameras, 9 students were injured, 1 seriously.[14]The local men attacked the dorm in an act ofrevengeand retaliation against college students following conflict the previous day at an off-campus food stall in which 4 students were injured, for a total of 13.[15]
[edit]August 2010
On 4 August 2010, 26-year-old Fang Jiantang () slashed more than 20 children and staff with a 60cm knife, killing 3 children and 1 teacher, at akindergarteninZibo,Shandongprovince. Of the injured, 3 other children and 4 teachers were taken to the hospital. After being caught Fang confessed to the crime; his motive is not yet known.[16]
[edit]August 2011
Eight children, all aged four or five,[17]were hurt inMinhang District,Shanghaiwhen an employee at a child-care centre formigrant workersslashed them with abox-cutter.[18]
[edit]September 2011
In September 2011, a young girl and three adults taking their children to nursery school were killed inGongyi,[19]Henanby 30-year-old Wang Hongbin with an axe.[20]Another child and an adult were seriously wounded but survived.[21]The suspect is a local farmer who is suspected of being mentally ill.[22]
[edit]December 2012
Main article:Chenpeng Village Primary School stabbingOn 14 December 2012, a 36 year-old villager in the village of Chenpeng,Henan Province, stabbed 23 children and an elderly woman at the village's primary school as children were arriving for classes.[23]The attacker was restrained at the school, and later arrested.[24]All of the victims survived and were treated at three hospitals, though some were reportedly seriously injured, with fingers or ears cut off, and had to be transferred to larger hospitals for specialized care.[25]
[edit]Causes
Prof. Joshua Miller, chair of Social Welfare Policy atSmith College, attributed the attacks tostresscaused by "rapid social change, mass migrations, increasing disparities in wealth and weakening of traditions."[26]Somesociologistsbelieve some of these attacks may be due to thePRC government's failure to diagnose and treatmental illness.[14]The perpetrators may feel victimized bystressdue to the rapidsocial changes[14]in China during the last 10 years caused by theprivatizationand decreasedsocial securityof China'sreform and openingperiod. During this time, more and moremigrant workersfrom rural areas have moved to cities such asShanghaito find jobs. However because they do not have social security (because of thehukou system), many of them do not havehealth insurance. Because of thefinancial crisis of 20072010, some have lost their jobs, which isstigmatizedin China, and have had to return to their native villages jobless andunemployed. The choice of schools for most of the attacks means they could becopycat crimes.[14][26]
You are woefully misinformed.
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