Here’s another take on the moronic crap-for-brains CBS article about Japanese gun control laws. And an interesting statistic<\/p>\n
Why comparing gun violence here to Japan is stupid<\/a><\/p>\n Japan and the United States don\u2019t have a lot in common. Culturally, we\u2019re quite different, though not necessarily incompatible. After all, while legions of Americans consume bits of Japanese culture as if it were the greatest thing ever, other legions in Japan do the same thing with American culture.<\/p>\n But there\u00a0are<\/em>\u00a0profound differences between the United States and Japan.<\/p>\n You wouldn\u2019t really know that if you saw this story going on\u00a0about their low rates of gun homicides<\/a>.<\/p>\n As the U.S.\u00a0gun control debate intensifies<\/a><\/span>, some Americans are\u00a0looking overseas for ideas<\/a><\/span>\u00a0on how to prevent mass shootings. Japan has one of the lowest rates of gun violence in the world. There were more than four firearm homicides in the U.S. per 100,000 people during 2019,\u00a0compared to<\/a>\u00a0almost zero in Japan.<\/p>\n As CBS News senior foreign correspondent Elizabeth Palmer reports, Japan\u2019s strict laws on private gun ownership have surprising origins in the United States. She met Raphael, a well-known Japanese YouTuber who decided to take skeet shooting lessons. Despite being ex-military, he had to jump through all the same hoops that any Japanese civilian must clear to get a gun license.<\/p>\n There\u2019s mandatory training. You have to pass a written exam, plus a physical and mental health evaluation. Even then, the police will go and ask your family and friends whether you have any violent tendencies.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n The point, of course, is very clear. Japan good, America bad. (The article later goes on to point out the irony in the fact that their gun laws are the result of American occupation following World War II.)<\/p>\n However, for all of Palmer\u2019s questions, she never bothered to dig beyond the surface level.<\/p>\n Japan\u2019s total homicide rate is\u00a00.3 per 100,000 people<\/a>. That\u2019s for all weapons, and yes, that is incredibly low by anyone\u2019s standard. It\u2019s easy to see why some would look to Japan and try to see what they\u2019re doing in hopes of replicating it here.<\/p>\n If our gun homicide rate were only 0.3 per 100,000, that would probably be a rate we could live with, right?<\/p>\n Except, our\u00a0non-gun homicide rate is 1.6 per 100,000<\/a>. That\u2019s more than [5] times greater than Japan\u2019s total rate.<\/strong><\/p>\n In other words, whatever is making Japan so relatively safe has little or nothing to do with their gun laws. After all, the Japanese government can\u2019t ban knives, hammers, sticks, or body parts\u2013all of which are used to kill plenty of people here in the United States.<\/p>\n Instead, whatever has created such a low homicide rate is likely something that has nothing to do with weapon restrictions and more to do with culture or, at least, some other regulation.<\/p>\n Unfortunately, that\u2019s beyond the modern media to delve into. That\u2019s a question they never bother to think to ask because they\u2019re apparently conditioned to not think of homicide as anything other than a gun issue.<\/p>\n The thing is, though, if you managed to make all guns go away overnight from every hand in the country, we\u2019d still have a higher homicide rather than Japan\u2013at least five times higher, though I suspect it would increase since you have to assume a large percentage of those who kill with guns would simply shift to another weapon.<\/p>\n So yeah, Palmer skimmed the surface and never dug any deeper, which is par for the course in this day and age.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Here’s another take on the moronic crap-for-brains CBS article about Japanese gun control laws. And an interesting statistic Why comparing gun violence here to Japan is stupid Japan and the United States don\u2019t have a lot in common. Culturally, we\u2019re quite different, though not necessarily incompatible. 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