re: #175 wheat-dogghazi

Sorry, when I see “mass killing,” I’m thinking larger numbers than 8 or 12. I guess the media have co-opted the phrase to describe “multiple shootings” or “multiple homicides.” Mass killing to me is wiping out entire villages or neighborhoods. It’s hard to do that with a knife.

This was a school attack, of which there have been several since 2010. According to Wikipedia, in 2010 and 2011, these knife attacks left “at least 21 dead and some 90 injured.” That’s out of a population of 1.3 billion. These were random, uncoordinated attacks by disturbed perps. The one you mention was by a teenage who was upset after his girl dumped him.

I suggest the body count could have been higher if the kid had had access to a gun.

If you are not comparing it to every US gun death, why bring it up? What’s your point?

I didn’t bring up mass killings. Jaunte did. He posted a link to a list of recent mass killings in the US and implied there weren’t any by knife or club.

And as to high body counts, look at Rwanda. A huge chunk of that killing was done by machete.

Here is a list of murder rate by country:
en.wikipedia.org

And here is a list of guns per capita by country:
en.wikipedia.org

Note the absence of single factor correlation.