Fob Magi
Jul 1 2008, 09:42 AM
Do Chinese police not have guns or was this dude just a fucking ninja?
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7483642.stmQUOTE
A man has stormed into a police station in the Chinese city of Shanghai and stabbed at least five officers to death, officials said.
The man was arrested after the attack in the Public Security Bureau office in the city's Zhabei district.
At least five injured people were being treated in hospital for stab wounds, Shanghai Daily said.
The motive for the attack was not immediately known but the man was said to be a 28-year-old from Beijing.
Agias
Jul 1 2008, 09:45 AM
Man, those chinese and their knifings... remember the last one? Wasn't long ago either.
Will
Jul 1 2008, 09:58 AM
When knives are outlawed, only outlaws will have knives!!!!!!!
hogdog
Jul 1 2008, 10:02 AM
It does seem rather strange that a guy with a knife would be able to kill at least five officers. Maybe the officers there are not routinely armed when at the station. Perhaps they were in such close quarters that they couldn't bring their weapons to bear very effectively. It is true that you can kill someone very quickly with a knife if you know what you are doing (or get lucky).
Anyway, it is important to realize that people can be killed with other things than guns (knives, pipe bombs, baseball bats, etc.), even if the anti-gun crowd wants us to think otherwise. In most cases, a good citizen armed with a gun has a decent chance of putting a stop to such killings though.
MD_Willington
Jul 1 2008, 12:08 PM
WARNING: pictures are gruesome...
http://www.oskarlewis.com/weblog/archives/4601Tend to disagree... No guns here, we're as safe as can be --> BARF!
BTW, last time I checked, IIRC a machete at Walmart is ~ $6.99
That's a hell of a bargain compared to the $305 I spent on my Saiga .223
waltham_41
Jul 1 2008, 02:12 PM
Knife attacks are common in England, and there have been some bad ones in Japan also.
Juggernaut
Jul 1 2008, 02:17 PM
Well, if history teaches us anything, it's that nobody ever killed anybody until Sam Colt invented the revolver.
SaigaNoobie
Jul 1 2008, 04:06 PM
But this does tend to give reason to why we cannot have Bayonet Lugs.... they make firearms into dangerous mass killing weapons.
Why is it that the heavy regulated semi-auto firearm can wound 10 people and no one dies, but 5 people stabbed by a man die?
I think knives are more efficient killing tools than guns.
G O B
Jul 1 2008, 07:18 PM
A family that was once our neighbors were killed with a claw hammer. The oldest son was mental tal, and woke up one night and killed his parents and brother in their sleep.
Cain didn't even know what a gun was, and there were just as many bloody wars fought before gunpowder was invented.
dayan inikhaton
Jul 2 2008, 06:45 AM
QUOTE (waltham_41 @ Jul 1 2008, 01:10 PM)
Knife attacks are common in England, and there have been some bad ones in Japan also.
Hell, GUN attacks are still commonplace in the UK.
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