CHILDREN KILLED IN U.S., OTHERS STABBED IN CHINA

USA, MAN KILLS 26 AT CONNECTICUT SCHOOL
CHINA, MAN SLASHES 22 CHILDREN AT SCHOOL

News Agencies - In the US: A man opened fire Friday inside the Connecticut elementary school where his mother worked as a teacher, killing 26 people, including 20 children, as youngsters cowered in their classrooms and trembled helplessly to the sound of gunfire reverberating through the building. The killer, identified as Adam Lanza, 20, armed with two handguns, committed suicide and another person was found dead at a second scene, bringing the toll to 28, authorities said. The attack, coming less than two weeks before Christmas, was the nation's second-deadliest school shooting, exceeded only by the Virginia Tech massacre that left 33 people dead in 2007. 
Schoolchildren - some crying, others looking frightened - were escorted through a parking lot in a line, hands on each other's shoulders. “Our hearts are broken today,” a tearful President Barack Obama, struggling to maintain composure, said at the White House. He called for “meaningful action” to prevent such shootings. 

In China: A man with a knife slashed 22 children and one adult outside an elementary school in Henan province Friday morning; China's worst such incident in more than a year. The attack was reminiscent of a spate of knife attacks on schoolchildren that took place across China in 2010. In most cases, the attackers were unemployed middle-aged men, leading to speculation that the assaults stemmed from economic and social discontent. Friday's attack occurred at about 7:40 a.m. as children were arriving outside the gate of Chenpeng Village’s Wanquan Elementary School. The suspect, Min Yingjun, 36, allegedly slashed an elderly woman as well as the children. 
Local propaganda officials said later that Min had a psychological illness. In 2010, nearly 20 children were killed and 50 wounded in a string of copycat incidents around central China. China has strict gun control laws, so knives are the weapon of choice in violent crimes.

In the USA, a heavily armed gunman opened fire inside a Connecticut elementary school on Friday, killing 26 people, including 20 children, in the latest in a series of shooting rampages across the United States this year. The gunman, 20-year-old Adam Lana, killed 18 children and six adults at the school and two wounded children died later in the hospital. His mother was a teacher at the school and is also believed to have been killed. Most of the fatalities happened in her classroom. Also on Friday morning, Chinese Police detained a man, Min Yingjun, 36, suspected of using a knife to injure 22 students and a villager at the gate of a primary school in Guangshan county in the city of Xinyang, Central China's Henan province. The injured students were sent to hospitals but their injuries were not considered life-threatening. The motive behind the attack remains unclear and the case is still under investigation.

WHAT DO THE VEDIC TEACHINGS TELL US? 

The present-day world appears to be running fast towards destruction. As per Indian scriptural evidence, the conditioned souls are enveloped by Lord’s illusory energy consisting of three primal qualities - Sattva, Rajah, and Tamah.  ‘Tamah’ indicates tendency to commit vice or to inflict injury.  In fact, Tamah tendency has now engulfed the whole world and is spreading over like fire and showing its most monstrous destructive ugly appearance.  The sagacious persons are bewildered to find any solution of this terrible tendency of violence. ... Lord does not think much about sins of other living beings who have got no such discriminating power. They do actions out of instinct. But God has bestowed discriminating power to human beings. In spite of that if they commit heinous crimes, surely they will be punished. They will never be spared. They are lowering the status of humanity. We may commit heinous crimes by deceiving ignorant human beings, beasts and birds, but we cannot deceive Supreme Lord Who is Omniscient. Lord is residing in the heart of every individual soul.

Śrīla Bhakti Ballabh Tirtha Mahārāja :
“Human’s sins will never be spared”
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