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Sunday, June 08, 2008


Just goes to show that even in countries with draconian gun laws, people will find a way to improvise:
A man plowed into shoppers with a truck Sunday and then stabbed 17 people within minutes, killing at least seven of them in a grisly attack that shocked a country known for its low crime rate.

The lunchtime violence in the Akihabara district, a popular electronics and video game area, sent thousands of people fleeing.

The assault, which occurred on the seventh anniversary of a mass stabbing at a Japanese elementary school, was the latest in a series of knife attacks that have stoked fears of rising violent crime in Japan.
Not that he wouldn't have killed more people if he'd had some kind of firearm, but just once I'd like to hear Sara Brady or Rosie O'Donnell try to blame the knife in one of these attacks.
Reports said the attacker grunted and roared as he slashed and stabbed at Sunday shoppers crowding a street lined with huge stores packed with the latest in computers, electronics, videos and games.
Video games, eh? I wonder if this guy spent all morning playing minesweeper or Frogger? Isn't there some way we can blame violent video games for this one?



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