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Protecting Schools: China

artappraiser — Fri, 12 Apr 2013 21:43:00 +0000

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Protecting Schools: China Knife-Attacks Continue As Authorities Beef Up Security

By Michelle FlorCruz, International Business Times, March 30 2013

Shanghai’s government took steps to tighten security at local schools, which have been frequent stabbing spree targets by disturbed individuals in China in recent years, after a knife attack near an elementary school left two dead and 11 injured.

According to China Daily, the stabbing took place near the Jinhui Elementary school in southern Shanghai. A man in his late 40s identified by police only as Zang was accused of making the attacks. Zang was eventually subdued by a crowd of passersby that used bricks and clubs to overpower him. Police are still investigating whether or not Zang had a history of mental illness.

The two fatalities were reported to be the suspect’s sister and her mother-in-law, both of whom were killed in the women’s apartment before the stabbing spree. Of the 11 people who were injured, six were reportedly children from the nearby school. The young children suffered head wounds that were not considered to be life-threatening.

Now, Shanghai authorities hope that additional measures around schools will help protect the nation’s youth from future attackers.

The Shanghai Daily reported that the city’s education authorities announced that beefing up security on those entering schools would be at the core of the new plans. [.....]

The new measures are likely to be well-received as knife-attacks have become more frequent in China in recent years [.....]

Yeah Richard, China actually

NCD — Sun, 24 Feb 2013 00:41:51 +0000

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Yeah Richard, China actually has 4.2 X our population, 1.344 Billion vs 0.314 B.

If you add up the deaths, at Wiki, I get 56 in China, 182 in the USA.

China would have to have about 764 dead to equal the USA. In other words the death rate from 'school massacres' in China is less than 8% of that in the USA.

I guess Artappraiser shouldn't wear out her puzzler on this one.

Not really getting the point

Orion — Fri, 22 Feb 2013 22:42:34 +0000

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Not really getting the point here. Sorry.

21 incidents in China from occurring 1995 through 2012

and

17 incidents in the U.S. occurring from 1927 (yes, that's 1927 ) through 2012.

How many of those incidents happened just in the last twenty years? Wouldn't that show that this rare phenomenon has actually happened more often recently due to some factor or another?

I think alot of people are freaked out by all these shootings because they're not just happening in schools. If they were, you could say it has something to do with modern children in this country. They are happening in movie theaters, parking lots, homes, anywhere people and guns are at.

Yeah, the first thing that

Richard Day — Fri, 22 Feb 2013 21:55:04 +0000

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Yeah, the first thing that comes to mind when comparing China to US is population. China has 4X our population.

Your post intrigues me most because of the lazy research involved in some of the greatest newspapers in the country.

I will attempt at times to use the links provided in one of these factual claims and the links will lead me to nowhere.

To further complicate our research mess, 'journalists' will just line up on some 'side' of the issue and completely ignore facts to the contrary.

That is why this Keystone issue drives me nuts. One side says that the proposed pipeline will create a hundred thousand jobs and the other side predicts a couple hundred?

And what type of pollution will be created by this monumental construction? And who will pay for the damage and how will much damage would be 'unfixable'?

Well, I think one would have to go through thousands upon thousands of pages of impact statements from many different sources to even touch upon this issue.

Oh well, just thinking out loud I guess.