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Isolated attacks by disturbed individuals? Definitely. Have there been more we haven't heard about? Not likely. Even in China, or perhaps especially in China, with its strict population controls, killing children is a particularly heinous crime.
Is there order to these killings? Not as such, but there is a very telling remark by one of the perpetrators in that he was depressed over the failure of his love life. The Chinese have, since the implementation of the 1-child/couple rule, heavily favoured boys. Female fetuses have been selectively aborted, and girls have been abandoned/left to die as newborns. There is a growing imbalance in the male:female ratio that will leave millions of Chinese men unable to find a mate. As the situation worsens, the likelihood will increase of finding more men like these ones who cannot deal with this.
Will it lead to MORE of this sort of atrocity? Hard to say, but it's certainly possible... a crisis of their own making. Let's hope it doesn't lead to the traditional way of dealing with excess male populations... WAR.
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