In strict gun-controlled China, many have used illegal guns, knives, trucks or bombs (in planes or crowded places). Of course like most places, the worst massacres were done by the Government.
Mass_Murders, China • [13 items]
| Great Leap Forward1958 Victims: 55,000,000 (55,000,000 / 0) Tools: Starvation |
The Chinese Communists decided to start a campaign to reconstruct the country from an agrarian economy into a communist society (Second Five Year Plan). This redistribution and central control caused a Great Famine and attrocities. Total dead estimated between 15 million on the very low end, 55 million on the more realistic end. | Cause: Govt Motive: ⬅️ Left 🚫 Gun Free Zone |
| Campaign to Suppresss Counterrevolutionaries1950 Victims: 2,000,000 (2,000,000 / 0) Tools: Capital Punishment, |
The Campaign to Suppress Counterrevolutionaries was designed to eradicate opposition elements to the CCP. There were mass trials done by what groups you belonged to and executions are admitted as 712K, but most Scholars put the deaths much higher (up to 2M). There was an overlapping/related Mass_killings_of_landlords going on, and Mao estimated 2-3M dead in that effort alone. | Cause: Govt Motive: ⬅️ Left 🚫 Gun Free Zone |
| Cultural Revolution1966 Victims: 1,500,000 (1,500,000 / 36,000,000) Tools: Guns, Torture, |
The Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution was the final purges (150K - 3M) of any capitalist/bourgeois (anyone not measuring up to the Maoists standards), and actually a series of massacres. Youth "Red Guards" mass murders included, Red_August (2K), Guangxi Massacre (500K), Inner Mongolia incident (100K), Guangdong Cultural Revolution Massacre (12K), Yunnan Cultural Revolution Massacre (18.6K), Hunan_Cultural_Revolution_Massacre (10K), not to mention the Banqiao Dam failure (240K). | Cause: Govt Motive: ⬅️ Left 🚫 Gun Free Zone |
| Tian Mingjian1994 Victims: 229 (29 / 200) Tools: Assault Rifle |
Tian Mingjian (30) - Jian'guo Gate mass shooting: Tian was having a second child (son) with his wife during China's one-child policy. His superiors forced abortion (at 7 months), killed his wife and son. He took offense, went on a rampage, killed his officers, soldiers that tried to stop him, went to town and indiscriminately fired at people in the streets until he was killed. | Cause: Revenge Motive: Forced Abortion 🚫 Gun Free Zone |
| Kunming attack2014 Victims: 178 (35 / 143) Tools: Knives |
Eight knife-wielding Uyghur separatists/terrorists attacked passengers in the Kunming Railway Station, on 1 March 2014. They killed 31 civilians and injured more than 140 people. Four assailants were shot to death by police. | Cause: ☪️ Islamic Terrorism Motive: Revenge 🚫 Gun Free Zone |
| Yangquan Bombing1981 Victims: 159 (32 / 127) Tools: Explosives |
Gao Haiping (24) - Attempted to blow himself and ex-Girlfriend up at a show. She didn't show up. He still attented and blew himself up, collapsed part of the theater, and killed 32 people and sent 44 to the hospital. A suicide note (and some extra explosives) found at his home confirmed it was him. | Cause: 🤪 Mental Health Motive: Suicide 🚫 Gun Free Zone |
| Shijiazhuang bombings2001 Victims: 146 (108 / 38) Tools: Explosives |
Jin Ruchao (13) - Deaf guy sets off five bombs near four apartment buildings in Shijiazhuang. He blew up the homes of his Mom, his ex wife, and a girlfriend (after stabbing his Girlfriend to death). Also tried to blow up his old home (that he'd sold), but that didn't do as much damage. | Cause: Revenge Motive: Women 🚫 Gun Free Zone |
| China Flight 57352021 Victims: 132 (132 / 0) Tools: Airplane |
China Eastern Airlines Flight 5735 was a scheduled domestic passenger flight in China from Kunming to Guangzhou. The Boeing 737-89P aircraft operating the service descended steeply mid-flight (no weather, malfunction, mayday, etc.) and struck the ground at high speed killing all 123 passengers and 9 crew members. Suicide by Pilot is suspected. | Cause: Suicide Motive: ❓Unknown 🚫 Gun Free Zone |
| Chengdu Bus Fire2009 Victims: 101 (28 / 73) Tools: Arson |
Zhang Yunliang (62) - Zhang's family reduced his financial support so he is believed to have committed suicide by bringing gasoline on a bus, and setting it ablaze. | Cause: ❓Unknown Motive: ❓Unknown 🚫 Gun Free Zone |
| Xiamen Bus Fire2009 Victims: 81 (47 / 34) Tools: Arson |
Chen Shuizong (59) - Officials refused to correct an error in his identity documents, so Chen was denied his social security benefits. His solution was to take public transportation with gasoline, and set the bus on fire. | Cause: Suicide Motive: ❓Unknown 🚫 Gun Free Zone |
| Mushui Vehicle Attack2018 Victims: 59 (16 / 43) Tools: SUV, Shovel, Knife |
Yang Zanyun (54) - Man deliberately drove his SUV into crowds on a square in Mishui in Hunan, China -- then got out and attacked people with a shovel and knife. The attack resulted in the deaths of 15 people and injuries to 43 others. And the execution of the driver. | Cause: Revenge Motive: Prior Convictions 🚫 Gun Free Zone |
| Lanjisu Internet Cafe2002 Victims: 37 (25 / 12) Tools: Arson |
Zhang & Song (13) - Two middle school boys (13 and 14) were kicked out of the Internet cafe. So they purchased 1.8 liter of gasoline at a nearby gas station and lit it up. 2 other teens helped. Since they had bars on the windows, and only one door (locked), many died. | Cause: Revenge Motive: Prior Convictions 🚫 Gun Free Zone |
| Shanghai Shooting2013 Victims: 10 (6 / 4) Tools: Metal Pipe, Rifle, Assault Rifle |
Fan Jieming (62) - Fan beat a coworker to death at his place of work, got a gun, shot a cab driver and a soldier/guard, got an assault weapon, went back to the office and killed 3 more people, before being apprehended. | Cause: Revenge Motive: Financial Dispute 🚫 Gun Free Zone |
Mass stabbings (School_attacks_in_China) is more popular than in other countries. But vehicles, fires, bombs, seem popular as well. If you can't stop this stuff in a police state, what are the chances of stopping it in a free country?
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