Hong Kong Shooting Shows Guns Aren’t The Problem

By Tom Knighton

A place like Hong Kong would be expected to have some pretty strict gun control, and they do. This is probably due to their roots as a British colony for so long, followed by their return to Chinese governance. While they’re still somewhat autonomous, it’s not surprising that they would frown on private gun owners. For most Asian nations, it’s fairly cultural anyway.

However, such a culture didn’t stop a recent shooting that the New York Times says has left people rattled.

The shooting on Tuesday, which one local newspaper said was the first reported gun crime since 2015 in the semiautonomous Chinese territory, dominated local news broadcasts and the front pages of newspapers.

The police said that a 44-year-old woman believed to be the attacker had most likely been motivated by a family conflict. They said two of her relatives, an 80-year-old woman and a 62-year-old man, both died at a hospital after being shot in the head. The police said two other relatives had also been shot: a man, 72, in the shoulder, and a woman, 60, in the hand.

It was all the more shocking for its time and location: a sunny afternoon in Quarry Bay, a neighborhood …Read the Rest

Source:: Bearing Arms