More stabbing at a school in Japan

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http://www.japantoday.com/e/?content=news&cat=2&id=36214

TOKYO ? A woman wielding a knife burst into a Japanese kindergarten on Tuesday, injuring a female teacher and raising yet more concerns about violent crime just two weeks after a mentally ill man stabbed to death eight schoolchildren.



At least nobody was killed this time.

 

[Antoneo]

So sad... is Japan turning violent or maybe for all these years they have been covering stuff up so that word doesnt get out? Seems weird that a string of attacks on children are occuring

 

[BoberFett]

Wait a second, how can Japan be violent? Guns are banned there, and we all know that it's guns that make people violent.

 

[monto]

<< Wait a second, how can Japan be violent? Guns are banned there, and we all know that it's guns that make people violent. >>

a few instances don't define the legal system or its society

 

[monto]

i mean, violence in US has been declining, especially in schools, but Columbine and a those few others ruin our preception of school safety

 

[shiner]

Guns, knives, sticks, stones, bare fists, etc....doesn't matter people will always find a way to attack and hurt each other. If you want to ban something because it causes violence then ban procreation.

 

[Raspewtin]

<< Guns, knives, sticks, stones, bare fists, etc....doesn't matter people will always find a way to attack and hurt each other. If you want to ban something because it causes violence then ban procreation. >>




i thought this thread was about a stabbing in Japan, not gun control in the US or is every thread about violence anywhere in the world really about gun control?

 

[GoldenBear]

<< Wait a second, how can Japan be violent? Guns are banned there, and we all know that it's guns that make people violent. >>

So one instance of a stabbing means Japan is violent?

 

[VRoOMdesigns]

I just can't picture any adult running into a school with a knife and trying to stab people.

That's got to be one of the oddest things I've heard of. This is uncanny, right?

 

[GoldenBear]

<< I just can't picture any adult running into a school with a knife and trying to stab people.

That's got to be one of the oddest things I've heard of. This is uncanny, right? >>

From the article:

&quot;Warning that there were no signs of violent crime subsiding in Japan ? long known as one of the safest countries in the world&quot;