Posted on 10/13/2005 12:05:29 AM PDT by FreedomCalls
A CHINESE man shot and injured 16 young schoolchildren as they were doing their morning exercises, Xinhua news agency said today.
It was the latest in a wave of school attacks to shock the country in recent years.
The middle-aged man opened fire with several home-made guns at the children at the Niutoushan Primary School in impoverished eastern Anhui province yesterday morning, Xinhua said.
Seven of the 16 wounded were in serious condition in hospital in the neighbouring province of Zhejiang.
One man working near the school tried to stop the shooting but was knocked down by the gunman as he made his escape, Xinhua said.
There have been a series of attacks on schools and schoolchildren around China, some by people who have lost their jobs or felt left out of the recent economic boom.
A carpenter broke into a school in southern China in April and cut off part of a boy's ear with a kitchen knife and half a girl's middle finger.
Two children and a teacher were killed last year in the Chinese capital Beijing in two separate kindergarten attacks.
A Chinese bus driver stabbed and wounded 25 primary school children in the eastern province of Shandong in September 2004. The same month, a man wielding a knife and homemade bombs injured 28 children in the eastern city of Suzhou.
"Change will come with these "one child" children."
I suspect that is true. The question is: what direction will they go? Will they treasure their own kids or will they continue their self-centeredness into adulthood and penalize the next generation, if there is one.
It will be interesting to see what happens to the Chinese people over the next couple of generations.
You are right about excuses for going round the bend. One doesn't really need an excuse but if one is prominent and handy, it might be the straw that breaks the camel's back.
One of my own kids was victimized by a man frustrated that he couldn't kill the doctor who sterilized his wife. We had nothing to do with it, just happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time when he went round the bend.
By the way, don't off a kid, no matter how tempting. ;)
Oh right, get mad at the president for choosing a nominee that wasn't on your personal list of conservative heroes and give control of Congress back to Pelosi and Reid. Yessiree Bob, that'll show him a thing or two!
Then when the next slate of federal circuit and appeals court nominations is sent up by the White House, see how many originalists make it through a judicial committee with a Democrat majority and chaired by a Democrat like Schumer or Biden. Cutting off your nose to spite your face because you're nursing a childish snit makes about as much sense as the classic circular firing squad.
Islam does crap like that. (I hate Americans so I'll blow up 25 children getting candy.)
Who said anything about giving control to the dems? I said the primaries. You do know the primary where you chose which Republican you want for the general election? Since only about 50% of the adult population are registered to vote and only about 30-50% of those registered voters vote in off year elections and only about half of those vote in the primary the side that is more committed wins. Look at the hard left the Democrats took in their primaries. this can and will happen in the Republican primaries if the Republican leaders continue to ignore the conservative point of view. I am not saying for us to get everything but we have gotten nothing from this administration. No secure border, no limited government, no constitutional amendments to protect marriage, no tax reform to limit the power of government, no constitutional supreme court. Instead the leadership has consistently screwed Middle America from bankruptcy, to large no bid contracts, to more entitlements that fall increasingly on the backs of the middle class, to run away gasoline prices that continue to give the oil companies record profits while tens of millions of American are trying to find ways to heat their homes and get their kids to ball games and school functions. We have kept quiet for 5 years, sure we made the occasional remark but by and large we have kept faith in the President because we are at War and we love our country. We have tried to work with the President but he has slapped ALL of our views in our face. So if the Republican party goes to the right and loses the middle vote do not blame us blame the President and the Congressional leadership for going to far to the left.
Absolutely he is a nutcase. My theory was in response to an earlier poster who wondered why so many of these Chinese nutcases attacked children totally unrelated to them.
"I consider RKBA one of the most important rights we have."
Understand that I'm not slamming you, but RKBA is the ONLY important right we have. Without it, there are NO other rights, we are at the mercy of anyone who wants to do anything to us, from the crazy guy down the street to the government itself.
Just what I thought I said. RTKBA is all that keeps us safe.
What? You mean the rubber band gun has got to go?
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