In China With Its Gun Control Laws Man Resorts to Knife to Stab Children at School

There’s this crazy belief that all forms of violence would just end if there was gun control. I have heard it said the United States is the only country that has these mass acts of violence. Well neither is true.

In China, which has some of the strictest gun control laws in the world, a man attacked 28 children in a Chinese school with a knife. Xu Yuyuan busted into a kindergarten classwith a knife and began carving it up like he was Michael Myers in a slasher flick. Yuyuan first stabbed the security guard and then going after the children.

Five of the children are in critical condition. Two teachers also were injured.

When you read the article, you find out this isn’t something that just randomly happened in China. There have been many similar events in China over the past few years, and the Chinese quickly wave it off as mental illness and personal grudges. In fact, this was the second instance of an attack on a school in the same day in China.

A series of school attacks in China in recent years have mostly been blamed on people with personal grudges or suffering from mental illness, leading to calls for improved security.

China's inadequate mental health network has left millions of unstable people without the help they need. Many otherwise healthy Chinese also feel frustrated and powerless because they aren't able to adapt to the constant social upheaval and because they believe the changes favor the corrupt. That kind of anger has occasionally erupted in mass violence and in isolated attacks.

It is not known why schools are targeted.

On Wednesday, a teacher on sick leave due to mental illness broke into a primary school in Guangdong province's Leizhou city in southern China and wounded 15 students and a teacher in a knife attack. That attack came on the same day a man was executed for killing eight children last month in stabbings that shocked China.

Gun control laws don’t stop violence. The United States isn’t the only place, like some gun control advocates would lead you to believe, where schools come under attack.