Tokyo`s “unregistered knife problem”…
Seven people have been killed and 10 injured in central Tokyo by a “hysterical” man who ploughed a van into a crowd of shoppers saying he was “tired of life” and began slashing people with a hunting knife.
The man, identified by police as Tomohiro Kato, 25, mowed down three people at a busy intersection in Akihabara, a shopping and entertainment district, before leaping from his rented van and stabbing at least 15 victims in the apparently premeditated attack.
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In January, a 16-year-old boy carrying a pair of kitchen knives slashed his way through a crowded Tokyo street, badly injuring two people.
“I wanted to kill everybody. I did not care who they were,” he told police afterwards.
In March, Masahiro Kanagawa, 24, went on a stabbing spree at a rural railway station that left one person dead and seven wounded.
Yesterday’s attack happened on the anniversary of an attack on 8 June 2001, in which Mamoru Takuma stabbed to death eight children at a primary school in Osaka.
When crazy human beings decide to kill at random but they can’t find a gun, they improvise…
Now I’m not trying to be crass or make light of all this, but Kimveer Gil killed ONE person.
The weapon is not important. It’s the motivation of the person behind the weapon which is dangerous.