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by refurb 1794 days ago
Humans break sometimes and get violent.

Just the other day a 16 year old student in Singapore used an axe to kill a 13 year old in a bathroom at school. They had never met.

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This was a crime planned for months, carried out with care, and based in ideology. Comparing it to a random act of violence is disingenuous.
You think some 16 year just randomly decided to bring an axe to school and kill someone?

None of these are spontaneous.

My school had an ax in the fire equipment locker, and even if a kid's bringing a weapon from home, it's hardly comparable to a multi-month construction of a bomb followed up by a multi-location terror attack on a political party with a whole-ass manifesto playing a role.
Not sure how your school is relevant, but this kid apparently bought it weeks before. Again, we’ll planned and probably considered for months.