If we are to believe the anti-Gun lobby - "making guns illegal will stop gun violence" - Japan needs an anti-Kitchen knife law... A seventeen year old goes into a school, yes school violence without a gun, and attacks teachers resulting in at least one fatality. Where is the petition I will sign it - who cares about the individual committing the crime let's condemn the tool used...let absurdity to demonstrate the absurd.
TOKYO (AP) — A 17-year-old boy armed with a knife burst into a public elementary school in western Japan on Monday, stabbing one teacher to death and slashing two others, police said.
No students were hurt in the attack in Neyagawa City outside Osaka, said Isoo Noda, spokesman for the Neyagawa City police, but the stabbings came as the latest in a series of rampages in Japan involving knives and children.
Police arrested a teenage boy who was a former student at the school in the faculty room, saying he used an 8-inch kitchen knife to stab two teachers and a school nutritionist. They found him smoking a cigarette in the room as frightened teachers looked on from afar, Noda said.
A 52-year-old male teacher was declared dead after the assault while a 57-year-old female teacher was seriously injured with knife wounds in her stomach, police said. The nutritionist, 45, was also being treated for injuries.
See there is a history of
knife welding, ban them now! We need to ban them in the US too, before the evil begins here!
Also, in 2001 a Japanese man with a history of mental illness barged through several classrooms in Osaka in western Japan and stabbed dozens of children and teachers. Eight children died and 13 others, including two teachers, were injured. Mamoru Takuma was found guilty of the murders and executed last September.
In June, an 11-year-old girl led a 12-year-old classmate into an empty classroom in southwest Japan and slit her neck and arms, leaving the girl to bleed to death. The attacker told police the other girl had been posting unfriendly notes on the attacker's home page on the Internet.
Earlier this month, a man armed with a kitchen knife went on a stabbing spree in the children's department of a supermarket in central Japan, killing an 11-month-old boy and injuring a 3-year-old girl and an adult woman, police said.
My point, evil is evil and a determined individual will carryout their plan with whatever is available - a car, a knife, a gun, a robe, gasoline, etc. - we cannot ban everything, but we can prosecute the criminals to the
fullest extent of the law and the
harshest penalties allowed under the law - but currently we are told to feel the
criminal's pain and
ban the instrument of their demise.
