Tokyo knifeman kills more than a dozen: reports

[MowCowWhoHow III]

Source: Sydney Morning Herald

A knife-wielding man went on an attack in a home for the disabled killing at least 15 people in the Japanese city of Sagamihara, according to reports.

An additional 45 people have been injured, according to reports.

Police were called to the scene just after 2.30pm local time amid reports that the man with a knife was seen on the premises, according to national broadcaster NHK.

The assailant has reportedly been arrested.

Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/world/tokyo-knifeman-kills-more-than-a-dozen-reports-20160725-gqdm48.html

[pkdu]

1. Somehow...this will become ''Radical Islamic Terrorism" and Obamas fault in time for the 6 o'clock

news.

/sarc off

[47of74]

7. Along with the reich wingers saying...

....that only if there was some Good Guy With A Gun® and only if Japan's laws on gun ownership weren't so strict none of this would have happened.

[kristopher]

12. he was a disgruntled ex employee.

Japanese broadcaster NTV reported that Uematsu was upset because he had been fired, but that could not be independently confirmed.

http://www.thedenverchannel.com/news/national/attacker-wielding-knife-kills-at-least-15-in-japan

[maxsolomon]

2. America doesn't have a monopoly on alienated homicidal men.

60 people stabbed. What a horror.

[ansible]

9. Japanese society is generally peaceful, but when they snap they do it horrifically

Very repressed society

[melman]

3. A home for the disabled? Holy shit

That is just unbelievably horrible.

[Nye Bevan]

4. Not normally easy to kill that many people with a knife.

But in a home for the disabled, I can see how that would be possible. How horrible and tragic.

[NutmegYankee]

5. Now up to 19 dead.

http://www.thedenverchannel.com/news/national/attacker-wielding-knife-kills-at-least-15-in-japan

Multiple outlets have reported that an attacker wielding a knife has killed at least 19 people at an assisted living center in Japan.

The attack occurred in the city of Sagamilhara, a city just west of Tokyo.

Twenty others are said to have been injured in the attack. The Associated Press reports that the knifeman has turned himself in.

[Purveyor]

6. 19 Killed, 45 Injured As Knife-Wielding Man Goes On Rampage At Medical Facility Near Tokyo

A man was arrested after killing 19 people and injuring 45 others in a stabbing rampage at a facility for the disabled in Japan’s Kanagawa Prefecture near Tokyo, local media reported, citing authorities.

Twenty of the injured are in critical condition, the national fire department, which also performs emergency medical care, has said.

A 26-year-old man was arrested by police after the attack, national broadcaster NHK reported. He was said to be holding a knife.

Mike Hall @mikehallnews
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Police are currently looking into the motive behind the attack, which happened in the city of Sagamihara, just west of Tokyo.

more...

https://www.rt.com/news/353242-tokyo-stabbing-killed-rampage/

[olddad56]

8. used to be stationed near there when I was in the Navy.

so sorry for the victims.

[jack_krass]

10. BAHHHNNNN TEH G!1UNNNZZZ.... oh wait...

[maxsolomon]

11. 19 dead. Have a good snark.

America's had worse gun massacre totals than that how many times during Obama's term alone? I can't even remember them all, not to mention the hundreds of mass killings with totals less than that.

Knives aren't used in America because our suicidal, alienated men know it's too much work. Guns are so much easier to massacre dozens of people. Knives are messy and you get tired stabbing and stabbing, even when your victims can't run away.

This proves nothing that supports your agenda.

[MosheFeingold]

13. And

"Knives aren't used in America because our suicidal, alienated men know it's too much work."

Well, and it's a good way to get shot.

[sofa king]

14. It does underscore one important thing:

We need to learn to recognize and reach out to disturbed people before they can act, by providing them with the help they need. In that way we can lessen violence across the spectrum.

[kristopher]

15. Update on killer's history and motive

...In mid-February, Uematsu visited the official residence of House of Representatives Speaker Tadamori Oshima in Tokyo and sought to hand him a letter that said, “I am able to kill a total of 470 disabled people,” according to the police and other sources.

Identifying the facility as one of his targets, Uematsu said, “My goal is creating a world in which euthanasia can be given to people with multiple disabilities — in cases where it is extremely difficult for them to live at home and be socially active — with the consent of their guardians.”

On Feb. 18, several days after he visited the Lower House speaker’s house, Uematsu told co-workers he would “kill the disabled,” prompting the police to question him at the local police station the following day.

After he repeated his threat to commit mass killing during questioning, the Sagamihara Municipal Government decided to commit Uematsu to a mental hospital out of concern he could harm others, and he quit the facility the same day, according to the city and prefectural governments. He was kept at the hospital until March 2. He also tested positive for marijuana while at the hospital.

http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/07/27/national/crime-legal/suspect-sagamihara-care-facility-mass-murder-says-no-remorse/#.V5gRcGVh2Rs