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Driver behind China car ramming attack that killed 35 is sentenced to death
(www.theguardian.com)
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Cars have been around for almost a century. Has this "goimg postal in a car" thing started happening only recently (and increasingly) or it was just outside of the news cycle?
It’s been done the same rate the past 80 or hundred years, but incidents have only attracted attention, so widely, due to internet.
Source: am old, used to read physical newspapers
oh absolutely not. The information has just not been reported on... for some reason.
The kindergarten stabbings that are really common in China are hardly talked about in the west and have been happening for iirc 5 years.
Here's a video by someone who used to live in China talking about it https://youtu.be/bEjsGj-NTFw
It's new, along with the uptick of other mass violence events. It's just that in the US it's guns, in other places, it's cars or bladed weapons.