Posted on 06/08/2008 3:30:27 AM PDT by HAL9000
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TOKYO, June 8 (AP) - (Kyodo)—(EDS: UPDATING WITH RISE IN DEATH TOLL)Seven people died and 11 others were injured after a man hit pedestrians with a truck and then stabbed people Sunday in broad daylight on a street in Tokyo's busy Akihabara district, a popular electronics area and a magnet for comic and animation fans.
Police arrested the man, 25-year-old Tomohiro Kato from Susono, Shizuoka Prefecture, and seized a survival knife he was carrying. He admitted to stabbing all the people with the knife from around 12:30 p.m., the police said. The truck was rented in Shizuoka Prefecture.
"I came to Akihabara to kill people," investigative sources quoted Kato as telling the police. "I am tired of the world. Anyone was OK. I came alone."
According to the police and hospital officials, six of the seven who died were males and aged 19, 20, 29, 33, 47 and 74. The other was a 21-year-old female.
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Japan has some of the strictest gun-control laws in the world. Lunatics will always find another tool to kill. Fortunately however Japan also has the death penalty. The bastard will hang.
‘Japan has some of the strictest gun-control laws in the world”
And yet they have increased gun crime as well from the organized crime groups that somehow have guns.
Yeah...the Chinese mafia beat up on the Yakusa
I’ve been saying for years that if Colin Ferguson had used two Roman short swords (18” blade) when he murdered all those commuters on the Long Island train, he would have come up with roughly the same body count. And swords never run out of ammunition, or have to be reloaded. They rely solely on the physical conditioning and motivation of the user.
Dreadful. RIP.
So why not sepuku yourself, jackass?
I’ve always wondered whether I’d be more frightened by a madman with a gun, or a madman with a knife—and I suspect it’d be the latter.
Dunno really. Madman with a knife has to come within hand to hand range. By that time I should have shot him. Several times. But even unarmed, he’s got to *fight me* hand to hand.
It’s all about distance.
Here: http://headlines.yahoo.co.jp/videonews/nnn/20080608/20080608-00000043-nnn-soci.html
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A knife attack is very, very frightening. Believe me, I know.
Many years ago, while I was in college, I worked as a security guard at an emergency room in a rough part of town. Late one night, a man in the waiting room started yelling obscenities and racial slurs. As I approached him, he took out a butcher knife and stabbed the person sitting across from him. He then charged straight at me from a distance of 8 feet. It all happened in a split second, in much less time than it takes to tell.
I did not have time to draw my service weapon, a .38 revolver, before he was on me. He slashed at my arm and ribcage (32 stitches, iirc) but I pushed him away and drew the gun. He lunged back at me for a killing stroke and I fired two center-of-mass shots. Both hit him in the upper abdomen. He went down literally at my feet. He survived, as did the original victim. The perp was schizophrenic, a very sick man, and had no real idea what he was doing.
I slumped down and threw up on the floor from fear and shock, something I had not done during a year of fairly hard service in Vietnam.
Of course in the UK, where they also have tough gun control laws (maybe not as tough as Japan, evidently if you jump through enough bureacratic hoops you can own a rifle or shotgun), they are actually arguing about knife control laws!
Two of my close friends from EQ were going to visit there in a few weeks on their way to the US. Scary stuff....
http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/internet
UPDATE:
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3553309,00.html
(AP)
“Man behind Tokyo stabbing foretold slaughter on Internet”
Published: 06.09.08, 10:40
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