Pzz & Geaux -
I think the two of you have actually come up with a useful analogy here -
by and large people prevented from having an abortion will deliver the child, and will not use another, less effective method to remove it.
Likewise, we know that other methods of killing are so much less effective killing that they are only infrequently used in mass killings, for instance.
Would Columbine or Sandy Hook have happened with knives?
Very probably not, and certainly not with the same death toll.
History tells us, yes
-Geaux-
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School attacks in China 2010 12 - Wikipedia the free encyclopedia
March 2010[edit]
Main article:
Nanping school massacre
On March 23, 2010, Zheng Minsheng (郑民生)
[7] 41,
murdered eight children with a knife in an elementary school in
Nanping,
[8] Fujian province;
[9] The attack was widely reported in
Chinese media (called 南平实验小学重大凶杀案),
[7] sparking fears of
copycat crimes.
[9] Following a quick trial, Zheng Minsheng was executed about one month later on April 28.
[8] Media reported a history of mental health issues, but police stated that Zheng had no history of mental illness, contradicting earlier reports. Zheng said that he performed the attack after being turned down by a girl and suffering "unfair treatment" from the girl's wealthy family.
April 2010[edit]
Just a few hours after the execution of Zheng Minsheng in neighboring Fujian Province,
[10] in
Leizhou,
[11] Guangdong another knife-wielding man named Chen Kangbing, 33 (陈康炳)
[12] at Hongfu Primary School wounded 16 students and a teacher.
[9] Chen Kangbing had been a teacher at a different primary school in Leizhou, but was on sick leave due to mental illness
[12][13] He was
sentenced to death by a court in
Zhanjiang in June.
[14]
On April 29 in
Taixing,
[8] Jiangsu, unemployed 47-year-old Xu Yuyuan went to Zhongxin Kindergarten
[15] and stabbed 28 students and two teachers after stabbing the security guard;
[9] most of the Taixing students were 4 years old.
[16] The attack was the second in China in just two days.
On April 30, Wang Yonglai used a hammer to cause head injury to preschool children in
Weifang,
[8] Shandong, then used gasoline to commit suicide by
self-immolation.
[9]
May 2010[edit]
An attacker named Wu Huanming (吴环明), 48, killed seven children and two adults and injured 11 other persons with a cleaver at a kindergarten in
Hanzhong,
Shaanxi on May 12, 2010;
[8] early reports were
removed from the internet in China, for fear that mass coverage of such violence can provoke copycat attacks.
[8][17] The attacker later committed
suicide at his house; he was the landlord of the school,
[18] 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.
[18]
On May 18, 2010 at Hainan Institute of Science and Technology (海南科技职业学院), a
vocational college in
Haikou,
Hainan, more than 10 men
[19] charged into a
dormitory wielding knives around 2:30 am;
[20] after attacking the security guard and disabling security cameras, 9 students were injured, 1 seriously.
[20] The local men attacked the dorm in an act of
revenge and 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.
[21]
