Why Does China Have So Many School Stabbings?

By artappraiser on Sat, 11/03/2018 - 3:02am |

Knife or axe-attacks on children are distressingly common.

By Robert Foyle Hunwick @ NewRepublic.com, Nov. 2

Americans have gotten uncomfortably familiar with the periodic tragedy of the mass shooting; in China, it’s the stabbing spree.

Last Friday, a 39-year-old knife-wielding woman burst into the playground of a kindergarten in Chongqing, southwest China, managing to slash 14 children as they were finishing their morning exercises, before she was wrestled to the ground by shocked onlookers. The following day, the United States suffered its worst anti-Semitic attack in history when a man shot up a synagogue in Pittsburgh, killing 11 and wounding six others.

The consecutive attacks recall a similarly grisly coincidence from 2012 [....]

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