# Any Cultural Relevance To The China School Killings?
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-cultural-relevance-to-the-china-school-killings/539169
**Category:** Great Debates
**Created:** [May 12, 2010, 2:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-cultural-relevance-to-the-china-school-killings/539169 "2010-05-12T14:31:28Z")
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### Author:  [@Nametag](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nametag)
#### Post date: [May 22, 2010, 5:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-cultural-relevance-to-the-china-school-killings/539169/41 "2010-05-22T05:57:01Z")
> [@elfkin477](#):
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> They are _now_, but the worst school massacre in the US was carried out by an adult in 1927: [Bath school massacre](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bath_School_disaster). All of the earlier incidents of multiple murder in US Elementary school history were [carried out by adults](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_school-related_attacks#Primary_school_incidents) too, and in fact it wasn’t until the 1970s where anyone even as young as age 14 killed more than one person in their school.
Interesting that this occurred in 1927, at a time of great change and rising expectations, at the hands of a man under financial stress. When I read **Even Sven** ’s second post (about cars, marriage, jobs, and isolation, I thought to myself, “Hmm; it sounds like China is going through the 1920s.”
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### Author:  [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)
#### Post date: [May 22, 2010, 7:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-cultural-relevance-to-the-china-school-killings/539169/42 "2010-05-22T07:16:39Z")
> [@jjimm](#):
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> Furthermore, the perpetrator of the one and only [kindergarten massacre](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunblane_massacre) that happened in the UK - with handguns - killed twice as many children as any of the Chinese crazies have managed yet.
With a knife or a cleaver, you will never run out of ammunition.
But you will probably run out of energy. Believe me, hacking people to death is pretty hard work. Er, I imagine it is, I mean. Yeah. I imagine.
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### Author:  [@Damuri\_Ajashi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Damuri_Ajashi)
#### Post date: [May 23, 2010, 3:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-cultural-relevance-to-the-china-school-killings/539169/43 "2010-05-23T03:02:31Z")
> [@acsenray](#):
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> Does the shortage of young women play any role in this?
> **[Is sex a need?](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=562061)**
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> I read this often- that sex is a biological need. Often when people are caught having affairs or, as in the neverending cases of closeted gay men who get caught having sex with men, the “his needs and urges were too great” line will often be used...
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