Chinese teenager kills eight wounds five in spree of violence

[dead0man]

I refuse to see human life sacrificed on an altar to appease the pantheon of the knife gods that rule China.

and before the you-know-whos get in here, screw you, I'll politicize something that is inherently tied to politics. Why shouldn't 8 people dying needlessly lead to change? Because too many Chinese have a knife fetish to actually pass laws that might prevent these frickin massacres every few months!?

[dead0man]

NOTA, knifes are mostly used for nonviolent actions.  Guns, however....

Are also used mostly for nonviolent actions.  I'm not sure why you would think otherwise.  Your typical round will end it's life buried in a tree, hay bale, ground, backstop at the shotting range, occasionally in a deer or bunny and very very VERY rarely in a human.

[dead0man]

Putting a bullet in a bunny or a deer might be considered a violent action by some people.

I consider it a violent action.  But my point was guns/rounds are much more likely to be used against a non-living target instead of an animal.  By a LONG...ahem...shot.

...and to keep the pointless shenanigans going......putting a knife through a chicken corpse might be considered a violent action by some people.

NOTA, knifes are mostly used for nonviolent actions.  Guns, however....

Are also used mostly for nonviolent actions.  I'm not sure why you would think otherwise.  Your typical round will end it's life buried in a tree, hay bale, ground, backstop at the shotting range, occasionally in a deer or bunny and very very VERY rarely in a human.

All of those are examples of either violent actions, or practicing how to perform violent actions.

Only if you stupidly ignorantly think all guns are designed to kill people and have no other purpose.  Shooting at a target to get better at shooting at a target is a violent action (or practicing to perform a violent action)?  But ignoring the obvious exceptions to your point, what is your point?

[dead0man]

Some people get off on the mechanical complexity.  Some people get off on being able to put a small hole in a piece of paper 200 yards away in the same place over and over.

But none of this matters.  Fuzzy insinuated that guns are mostly used for violence, and that's obviously not true.  You trying to move his goal posts for him is a nice thing to do, but doesn't really change much from my perspective.

[dead0man]

Well at least you didn't use stereotyping to get there

[dead0man]

Of course, everybody does/has.  And when they (or I) do, they (or I) should be called on it...no?

[dead0man]

What is shows is that capitalism leads to violence.

Capitalism is the way now in China? 

Oh heck yes.

Well that explains it......

Claiming the PRC is capitalistic now is like wearing a Che shirt, it's sure sign you are dealing with an ignorant jackass.  I won't even get into how many people non-capitalistic economic systems have killed.

It's probably a sign that China has finally joined the league of civilized nations that they now have their own arbitrary spree killers. The onward march continues...

Best quote so far in this thread (including my own).

Wait, you guys don't actually believe that do you?  You don't really think killing spree's are a new thing in China/the East do you?  This is just a sick joke (the best kind of joke) right?