Posted on 06/04/2020 8:24:35 AM PDT by yesthatjallen
A school security guard injured at least 39 people in a knife attack at a kindergarten in southern China on Thursday morning, state media reported. The motive remains unknown.
The attack was an eerie throwback to deadly attacks at schools in China over past years that prompted security upgrades and that authorities have blamed largely on people bearing grudges or who had unidentified mental illnesses.
The local government in the Guangxi region’s Cangwu county said 37 students and two adults suffered injuries of varying degrees in the attack.
Chinese state media identified the attacker as a security guard at the school surnamed Li. The suspect had been detained while an investigation was underway, they said.
State broadcaster CCTV said 40 had been injured, three seriously, including the head of the school, another security guard and a student.
In earlier attacks, a woman wielding a knife injured 14 children at a kindergarten in the western city of Chongqing in October 2018.
Almost 20 children were killed in school attacks in 2010, prompting a response from top government officials and leading many schools to add gates and security guards.
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Mostly peaceful security guard inflicts flesh wounds on some children.
Was it a semi-automatic knife? Wielded by white supremacists?
Should President Trump tell President Xi that he thinks the attack was “beautiful” ?
He must have been celebrating the anniversary of the Tiananmen Massacre.
Yep a clear case of racism.
Wow great memory! I bet every Chinese makes that connection, at least if they are outside China.
Some crimes appear to be more common in certain regions.
In Mexico, and in South America, kidnapping is very common, even when the victims are not very wealthy.
In China, for unknown reasons, attacking a roomful of very young children with a knife has become more common in the last 15 years.
The fact that most people in this country aren’t even aware that today is the anniversary of the crackdown is a testament as to how much China has exerted their influence over our media and our education system.
Probably looking for new products for their wet market.
In an FR post on a similar attack a few years ago, a poster speculated that this trend may be connected to China's "one child" policy, which disproportionately eliminates females. This results in a dearth of marriageable women, which frustrates men who wish to marry and have a family. The speculation was that this frustration may lead to lashing out at other people's children. There may be something to this theory.
That makes sense, in a sad, sick sort of way. In fact, I believe this part of the world is where the first INCEL groups began to form. In China and in Japan for different reasons.
"But whoever shall offend one of these little ones which believe in me, it were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and that he were drowned in the depth of the sea." -- Matthew 18:6
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