On April 29, a 40 year old man came into a preschool classroom and injured 5 preschoolers with a hammer. Right after this, he set himself on fire, killing himself. Officials think this is a copycat attack because there have been several similar attacks on young children. The previous day, a man went into a kindergarten classroom and stabbed 29 students. The day before this incident, a man injured 18 children in a different primary school. Luckily, no one died. Last month, a former doctor, Zheng Minsheng, went into a classroom and stabbed 8 children to death and wounded 5 others. He was executed on April 27. Why would these men want to harm innocent children? Before Minsheng was executed, he said that he committed these murders because of his "failures in his romantic life and in society". It seems that he had some psychologically issues to take out his failures on young children. The other men who carried out similar attacks most likely had some psychological issues as well. They may have had depression or at worst, antisocial personality disorder, or something similar.
The trauma that students, parents, and children had to go through will need some counseling. The article states that schools have brought in people to help with these issues. The students will definitely suffer from some psychological problems but hopefully they can be resolved early on to prohibit further issues.
Here is the article: http://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/asiapcf/04/30/china.school.attack/index.html?iref=allsearch
Wow, this is a really disturbing issue, so I guess the penalty for seriously injuring children is executing the criminals. That's great but it is sad to say that it seems not to work since it keeps happening so much. I do agree with the fact that those people have some deep psychological problem mayb something dramatic happened to them when they were young and thought that they would be saving the children from that experience. Or they just wanted to release their stress majorly but in the wrong way and they figured that hey kids can't do squat to me so might as well take advantage. What really bugs me is the fact that they committ suicide. I guess that shouldn't since they hurt those kids both mentally and physically. To much of a coward to face up to the consequences. There is another thing, there are adults who are actually jealous of children, they terribly detest children so much to the point of causing them pain. Most likely because children are depected as being free and sincerly happy without a care in the world. I am glad though that those victims are getting the help that they need.
Ok so I remember even as a little kid there were drills for this kind of stuff and the schools had rules and regulations about people entering schools so how did this guy get into the school in the first place let alone injure so many children. You would think that a guy with a hammer and a tank of gas would arise some suspicion as to what he is doing anywhere near a school. I suppose this just reflects the Chinese attitude towards the safety of an education facility which is poor at best for this is only one of several attacks which are very smiler.
Perhaps it is time for China to take a que from the US playbook and put in place protocols and training to prevent this sort of thing from happening in schools. Of course regardless of who is to blame people who hurt little children are just plain sick mental issues or not.