Akihabara Knife Stabbing Tokyo, Japan

[dete]

If you haven't heard,
this guy posted on the internet that he was going to stab people on a certain street district in Japan, supposedly he had trouble making friends, and got in a truck, hit several people with it, then got off, and went after random people with a 12" survival knife. Seven dead.

Knives get a bad rep enough as it is... not good.
The average person uses a knife everyday, cooking, eating, and other utility purposes. If you measure statistics that way, the amount of good versus bad use of the knife is probably a million to one.

And I bet if this guy had access to a gun he would have used that instead.
What I mean by that, is that it's the guy that's bad, not the knife.

:(

[stonyman]

Dete, we know that, but as the saying goes.......................the preaching is to the choir. Maybe if there was another person their with a knife or a gun to shut this person down...........maybe the deed will cancel itself. Unfortunate incident indeed! Thank you for sharing.

[dete]

thanx for the reply, sorry didn't mean to sound preachy,

but oh boy, very sad, it's this kind of thing that causes more and more laws, limiting what we can carry/own.
:(

[Dr. Snubnose]

I was wondering just where on the internet he posted the threat?....Doc

[TR Graham]

Muslim "suicide stabbers" have been a problem in the middle east for some time. Take a knife and stab as many Jews and infidels as they can until they are shot down.

In a suicide mission, knives have a big advantage over guns - they are quiet, they don't cause immediate panic if someone is seen carrying one, and are easier to conceal. Also, they never jam and they never run out of ammunition.

However, this idiot in Japan used TWO "weapons" - the knife, and the TRUCK.... Wonder if they are gonna' outlaw panel vans? :rolleyes:

I hate to see it, but the "Knife Culture" is starting to have the same world-wide PR problems as the "Gun Culture". :mad:

TR Graham
The Glocksmith

[Agent Starling]

Knives get a bad rep enough as it is... not good.
The average person uses a knife everyday, cooking, eating, and other utility purposes. If you measure statistics that way, the amount of good versus bad use of the knife is probably a million to one.

And I bet if this guy had access to a gun he would have used that instead.
What I mean by that, is that it's the guy that's bad, not the knife.

A sad story indeed...I wonder, if this guy used a big kitchen steak knife instead...does that make the anti-knife thing any different? Or it doesn't count cuz it's a kitchen knife maybe...I figure they can outlaw all the non-cooking knives they want but that doesn't change a thing if the perp used a steak knife...since the end result would've been the same...

Agent Starling

[dete]

thanks for your input ya'al

definitely good point about the knife & truck being used as a weapon,
and yeah, what if it were a steak knife? Ban those and what are we
suppose to eat steak with?

he posted on some forum that was specifically made for posting via cell phone
he got really angry and upset, I think they made fun of him when he posted how he could not attract women and didn't have friends.

anyways 4 by the knife (all stabbed once-bled to death), 3 by the truck, 7 total dead :(

[telemeister]

This is pretty interesting as it relates to crime stats, and gun/knife/weapon ownership, and the whole gun control debate. Japan, and Tokyo in particular, has a very low rate of firearms ownership, but it has a very high murder rate. Switzerland, on the other hand, has an incredibly high firearms ownership rate (its something like 80% +!!!) yet it has a low murder rate.

I know thats a little off topic, but its still interesting to think about.

[MAT888]

Is that true that tokyo has such high murder rate? telemeister i did not know that.

Apparantly the sick guy posted a warning on a mobile website before ; http://mdn.mainichi.jp/national/news/20080609p2a00m0na015000c.html

This is not good:(.

[Doc Pyres]

There's a lot of crime in Japan but I suppose it's relatively lower than what we're used to in the West. Although this was a very sad incident and my heart goes out to the victims and their families, 'knives' are not to blame, a human is. Look at Rwanda - almost a million poor souls were murdered with $10 Chinese machetes. Should all farm implements be banned? Humans have always found a way to use pretty much anything as a weapon. I mean look at the major damage that caveman did with that old bone at the beginning of the movie "2001 A Space Odyssey"!

[TR Graham]

"There is no such thing as a dangerous weapon - only dangerous PEOPLE".....

I was taught this many years ago, courtesy of the US Army.

TR Graham
The Glocksmith

[dete]

Japan is changing a lot recently.
I remember 20 yrs. ago, you could just leave your house unlocked, all day while your at work and come home at night, and everything will be fine. I think in some places you still can but it's become less and less. I heard that the US, use to be like this as well.

When my parents watch the news over there, I notice that it's crime rate "seems" similar to over here but then, I notice it's for the entire country versus one city.