Interesting look at the very strict gun laws of Japan.
The law makes it almost impossible to own a gun ... but like anyone in here could expect, criminals still get to own guns ... like they don't follow the law or something.
The article doesn't mention that crime is still very high, just not gun crime.
Of course reducing gun ownership will reduce gun crime (for the most part, criminals still import them) but people will use other weapons.
Stabbings happen all the time in Japan.Just last year 19 people were killed (and 26 injures) by stabbing during one single attack.
Mass stabbings as as commons as mass shootings in the US.
I guess knives are even more dangerous since you don't run out of ammo ...
We often hear about gun laws in the UK and how they are very strict (almost impossible to own hanguns even for most police officers) but Japan is way worst.
How Japan has almost eradicated gun crime - BBC News
Yet Japan has a large Self Defense Force (their military) that use guns to protect their property (country). Sounds like a double standard to me.
I'm sure citizens in Japan feel really safe, knowing they will get killed by a knife and not an evil gun.
And of course the PM and the Emperor are protected by armed bodyguards like in pretty much any contry that bans guns and thinks they are evil.
The law makes it almost impossible to own a gun ... but like anyone in here could expect, criminals still get to own guns ... like they don't follow the law or something.
The article doesn't mention that crime is still very high, just not gun crime.
Of course reducing gun ownership will reduce gun crime (for the most part, criminals still import them) but people will use other weapons.
Stabbings happen all the time in Japan.Just last year 19 people were killed (and 26 injures) by stabbing during one single attack.
Mass stabbings as as commons as mass shootings in the US.
I guess knives are even more dangerous since you don't run out of ammo ...
We often hear about gun laws in the UK and how they are very strict (almost impossible to own hanguns even for most police officers) but Japan is way worst.
How Japan has almost eradicated gun crime - BBC News
Henrietta Moore of the Institute for Global Prosperity at University College London applauds the Japanese for not viewing gun ownership as "a civil liberty", and rejecting the idea of firearms as "something you use to defend your property against others".
Yet Japan has a large Self Defense Force (their military) that use guns to protect their property (country). Sounds like a double standard to me.
I'm sure citizens in Japan feel really safe, knowing they will get killed by a knife and not an evil gun.
And of course the PM and the Emperor are protected by armed bodyguards like in pretty much any contry that bans guns and thinks they are evil.