15 dead, 45 injured in Tokyo knife attack.

[TheDreamMaster]

http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/livecoverage/breaking-news-now/lc-BBuQOGL?ocid=spartanntp

I was not aware a mass stabbing was a thing, but apparently it can happen. Not sure if they got so many because it happened at a facility for the disabled. Either way, its another terrible thing to add to the list this year.

 

[Marvolo]

Mass knife attacks have happened in china.

 

[MadVillainy]

If it's not guns it's bombs, if it's not bombs it's knives.

 

[Soapy]

Ban assault knives!

 

[Dr Lee]

Some reports coming from Japan say a 20 year old guy gave himself up stating that 'He wanted to rid the world of the disabled.'

****ing coward.

 

[tzarinna]

The ultimate prick that attacks a facility for disabled.

 

[VelcroWallet]

Japan has a poor mental health system. They still treat their mentally ill by locking them up, in brutal hospitals in the mountains. I watched a documentary about it a few years ago. It was really sad actually.

 

[Victarion]

What the **** @ that motive.

 

[Kane52630]

"Japanese stabbing attack" and not "Japanese terrorist attack" hmm...

 

[Sawyer]

I guess that's the sound of a legion of gun nuts self-high fiving over having a new way to mansplain how guns/mass shootings aren't a problem.

 

[Hobgoblin]

Japan has a poor mental health system. They still treat their mentally ill by locking them up, in brutal hospitals in the mountains. I watched a documentary about it a few years ago. It was really sad actually.

I tried to get a job teaching English in South Korea on 2009. They were almost ready to hire me when they asked if I had medications that I needed. I need antidepressants and they had to take back the offer. South Korea didn't have psychiatric medications as people with mental illness are just seen as crazy. The person said the Koreans would just think they had sent them a crazy person.

 

[Muze]

I guess that's the sound of a legion of gun nuts self-high fiving over having a new way to mansplain how guns/mass shootings aren't a problem.

that would be my expectation of this story's fall-out.

 

[Guts]

I guess that's the sound of a legion of gun nuts self-high fiving over having a new way to mansplain how guns/mass shootings aren't a problem.

I just found the perfect Onion article to use whenever a shooting happens, other than "‘No Way To Prevent This,’ Says Only Nation Where This Regularly Happens"
http://www.theonion.com/blogpost/its-honor-continue-being-valued-over-countless-hum-53094

 

[VelcroWallet]

I tried to get a job teaching English in South Korea on 2009. They were almost ready to hire me when they asked if I had medications that I needed. I need antidepressants and they had to take back the offer. South Korea didn't have psychiatric medications as people with mental illness are just seen as crazy. The person said the Koreans would just think they had sent them a crazy person.

Wow, that's really unfortunate. Just imagine what that must be like. I couldn't imagine being ostersized like that.

 

[Teelie]

Ban assault knives!

I guess that's the sound of a legion of gun nuts self-high fiving over having a new way to mansplain how guns/mass shootings aren't a problem.

They waste no time in turning a mass murder to their advantage.

 

[Marvolo]

I tried to get a job teaching English in South Korea on 2009. They were almost ready to hire me when they asked if I had medications that I needed. I need antidepressants and they had to take back the offer. South Korea didn't have psychiatric medications as people with mental illness are just seen as crazy. The person said the Koreans would just think they had sent them a crazy person.

Thats stupid as ****. South Korea not having psychiatric medication for people qualifies as a humanitarian crisis.

 

[Handsome Rob]

They waste no time in turning a mass murder to their advantage.

They should be more like the more gun control and/or gun ban crowds, who never use a tragedy to push their own agenda.

Both sides will use tragic events as evidence to support their own beliefs and agendas. But, it's curious that some people seem to only oppose such actions when they disagree with the position the people are using it for.

But, then again, maybe it isn't that curious after all . . .

 

[Teelie]

Gun control and gun ban are two totally different things. Trying to tie gun bans with gun control is incredibly misleading. And besides which, gun control is a middle ground, not an extremist solution.

 

[Handsome Rob]

Gun control and gun ban are two totally different things. Trying to tie gun bans with gun control is incredibly misleading. And besides which, gun control is a middle ground, not an extremist solution.

Yeah, that's why I separated them into two separate crowds. But, how does any of what you said change the FACT that the gun control crowds and the gun ban crowds are quick to jump on mass shootings in order to push their own agenda?

Do you have a problem with these groups doing this, as well?

 

[Teelie]

Yes but not nearly so much since their idealogy does not result in mass shootings or high murder and suicide rates. The people who defend the "everyone needs guns" idealogy are fiercely anti-anything that threatens their precious gun collection, even if it means a safer society.