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Man kills eight schoolchildren in China on first day of class
CNN ^ | September 3, 2019 | Ben Westcott and Serenitie Wang

Posted on 09/03/2019 7:53:42 AM PDT by BenLurkin

A separate statement by the Enshi City police was originally posted on Chinese social media site Weibo but was later removed without explanation. The hashtag "school criminal case in Hubei" had gained 120 million views on Weibo as of Tuesday morning.

Attacks on schoolchildren in China have happened before. In October, at least 14 children at a kindergarten in Chongqing were slashed by a woman with a kitchen knife.

In April 2018, nine students were killed and others injured after a male suspect began attacking students in Shaanxi province. According to a statement from the local government, a 40-year-old man surnamed Yu attacked students at the school at 8 a.m. local time, when students would have been arriving for class.

September 2 marked the start of a new school semester in China after the summer break.

According to state-run tabloid Global Times, the local government is providing psychological counseling services to the students who witnessed or were injured in Monday's attack.

(Excerpt) Read more at cnn.com ...


TOPICS: Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: children; china; guncontrol; mass

1 posted on 09/03/2019 7:53:42 AM PDT by BenLurkin
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To: BenLurkin

I am willing to bet he didn’t use an AR-15.


2 posted on 09/03/2019 7:55:50 AM PDT by Busywhiskers ("Once you have wrestled, everything else in life is easy" -Dan Gable)
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To: BenLurkin

China needs gun-control laws, background checks, etc.


3 posted on 09/03/2019 7:56:59 AM PDT by UCANSEE2 (Lost my tagline on Flight MH370. Sorry for the inconvenience.)
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To: UCANSEE2

Waiting for Alyssa Milano to weigh in.


4 posted on 09/03/2019 7:58:10 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: dfwgator

bttt


5 posted on 09/03/2019 7:59:14 AM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire. Or both.)
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To: BenLurkin

Not possible. everyone knows mass casualty events only happen in the US. /s


6 posted on 09/03/2019 8:01:13 AM PDT by Hoffer Rand (God be greater than the worries in my life, be stronger than the weakness in my mind, be magnified.)
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To: BenLurkin

So, apparently the brits are on to something when it comes to banning knives. Of course only law abiding citizens will turn in their kitchen knives. Hmmmmm... Where have we heard that argument before? Will the chinese follow suit?


7 posted on 09/03/2019 8:01:52 AM PDT by rktman ( #My2ndAmend! ----- Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?)
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To: BenLurkin

Think about the Russian Crimea student who last fall murdered 19 of his fellow students with a legally obtained shotgun. This was ignored by most broadcast news services but was picked up by web news sites.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-45891201

As a cop in the north east said years ago, he feared knives as knives were “always loaded”.


8 posted on 09/03/2019 8:02:23 AM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar
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To: BenLurkin

At least China has the death penalty and uses it - publicly - and the convicted doesn’t lay around in a cell for decades.


9 posted on 09/03/2019 8:06:43 AM PDT by SkyDancer ( ~ Just Consider Me A Random Fact Generator ~ Eat Sleep Fly Repeat ~)
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To: rktman
Full_Retard
10 posted on 09/03/2019 8:08:38 AM PDT by SkyDancer ( ~ Just Consider Me A Random Fact Generator ~ Eat Sleep Fly Repeat ~)
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To: Busywhiskers

I bet he was a White Nationalist!

/S


11 posted on 09/03/2019 8:11:25 AM PDT by Pontiac (The welfare state must fail because it is contrary to human nature and diminishes the human spirit)
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To: BenLurkin

china has almost zero crime because they have already cut the perpetrator into little pieces and fed him to his family.


12 posted on 09/03/2019 8:28:49 AM PDT by JohnBrowdie
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To: BenLurkin

Does that mean kids get the next day off?

Is that like a snow day?


13 posted on 09/03/2019 8:38:43 AM PDT by dp0622 (Bad, bad company Till the day I die.)
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To: SkyDancer

Tell me she didn’t really say that.

Please.......


14 posted on 09/03/2019 9:02:19 AM PDT by metmom ( ...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith..)
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To: metmom

I can’t verify that but she must have since it’s a meme. I guess.


15 posted on 09/03/2019 9:15:56 AM PDT by SkyDancer ( ~ Just Consider Me A Random Fact Generator ~ Eat Sleep Fly Repeat ~)
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To: BenLurkin

Have Trump’s tariffs been blamed yet?


16 posted on 09/03/2019 11:02:58 AM PDT by treetopsandroofs
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To: SkyDancer

“At least China has the death penalty and uses it - publicly - and the convicted doesn’t lay around in a cell for decades.”

Organs are needed.


17 posted on 09/03/2019 11:03:55 AM PDT by treetopsandroofs
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To: metmom

She didn’t, it was a fake quote from a satirical website that people picked up and started attributing to her like it was real.


18 posted on 09/03/2019 11:21:53 AM PDT by Boogieman
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To: Boogieman

It’s getting hard to tell these days, what with the absurd things coming out of liberals mouths.


19 posted on 09/03/2019 1:08:34 PM PDT by metmom ( ...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith..)
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To: BenLurkin

Jesus, those poor kids and their parents.


20 posted on 09/03/2019 2:50:11 PM PDT by Amberdawn (Want To Honor Our Troops? Then Be A Citizen Worth Fighting For.)
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