“Almost exactly one year ago, a carload of assailants took to the streets of Calgary and randomly slashed at five pedestrians, killing one of them. A few months later, a crazed man in New York violently attacked an elderly dog-walker and a restaurant worker, ‘chopping’ at them ‘like a sword’ before being killed by police. Only days later, a Salt Lake City man also went on a stabbing spree. On March 23, 2008, a Japanese man carrying two knives stabbed eight people in the city of Tsuchiura, simply because he ‘just wanted to kill anyone.’ And he did. At around the same time, an Alaska teenager butchered four people to death with a five-inch knife.” (07/14/08)