Saturday, December 15, 2012

Killing of student also in China. So it from US to China. This is crazyyyy!

China attack illustrates U.S. gun law divide On Friday morning, a man walked through theentrance of an elementary school and, without warning, began ruthlessly cutting down children at the school. Before he was subdued, nearly two dozen were hit. While it sounds like the horrific massacre in Connecticut, this attack took place about 8,000 miles away in central China. And while several of the victims were reported in criticalcondition, none of the 22 children were killed. The 36-year-old suspect in China -- which has strict gun control laws -- attacked the children with a knife, according to local reports. "The huge difference between this case and the U.S. is not the suspect, nor the situation, but the simplefact he did not have an effective weapon," saidDr. Ding Xueliang, a Harvard-educated sociologist at the University of Science and Technology in HongKong. As the world shares in the horror of the attackthat left at least 28 dead, including 20 school children, the attack has rekindled the gun-control debate in the U.S. and international wonder at the propensity of gun-related deaths in America. Police: 20 children among 26 victims "In terms of the U.S., there's much easier availability of killing instruments -- rifles, machine guns, explosives -- than in nearly every other developed country," Dr.Ding said. "In the United States, we had 9,000 people killed with guns last year, in similar countries like Germany 170 (killed with guns), in Canada 150. There's a reason for that," Rep.Jerrold Nadler, D-New York, told CNN's Piers Morgan. "The proof in the pudding is that in everyother industrialized nation except the United States, they have reasonable gun control laws, and they have hundreds of people killed each year -- not 9,000 or 10,000 a year -- killed by guns." Analysis: Why gun controls are off the agenda in America The United States has, by far, the highest rateof gun ownership in theworld, with 88.8 guns per 100 people, followed by Serbia (58.2), Yemen (54.8) and Finland/Switzerland(45.7 each), according to GunPolicy.org, an international database at the University of Sydney.

No comments:

Post a Comment