China and the US were both born from armed conflict. They're now polar opposites on gun control | Analysis by jessieyeung8 & steve0george
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Last week, a 47-year-old man stormed into a law firm in China's Wuhan city and shot dead a lawyer who he had"some disputes with," according to Chinese state media. He then stuffed his gun, just under 20 inches long, into a tennis racket bag and left. The fatal shooting shocked many in China, which has some of the world's strictest gun control laws -- so much so, that some people thought initial reports were about yet another American shooting."When my friend told me about the shooting, I thought it was the United States," one person wrote on the Chinese social media platform Weibo.
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