Knife-Wielding School Attacker Kills Eight In China

By Tom Knighton

Time and time again, we’re told that mass killings don’t happen in other places. The people telling us that are generally looking to push a gun control agenda and they claim that the reason we only see them here are because of our lax gun laws. If only we embraced gun control, all such violence would come to an abrupt halt.

Only, it’s not just us.

Christchurch, NZ should have put an end to that kind of nonsense. Then again, there have been numerous mass shootings in other countries that gun control supporters tend to forget about pretty quickly.

Yet even if you do manage to put guns out of the reach of others, that doesn’t mean attacks won’t happen. If it did, eight families in China wouldn’t be mourning right now.

An unhinged man carried out a knife attack at a Chinese elementary school on Tuesday, killing at least eight kids on their first day of class, authorities said.

The 40-year-old man, whose last name is Yu, launched the attack in the school at about 8 a.m. in Hubei province, police said in a statement.

In addition to the eight kids slain in the attack, two children were injured, according to police.

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Source:: Bearing Arms