tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7420606.post1097778133207291702..comments2022-11-05T22:26:28.943+09:00Comments on Japan without the sugar: Crime in Japan: An utterly simplistic viewDhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16435915677126518313noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7420606.post-14291239276362374782010-05-26T21:32:08.169+09:002010-05-26T21:32:08.169+09:00The site I linked to simply said firearms/guns. It...The site I linked to simply said firearms/guns. It is a very common error and still widely believed. <br /><br />Remember a few years ago when the guy took a shotgun into a gym and killed several people how shocked many were that firearms were actually legal in Japan. <br /><br />Handguns are not legal for average citizens, although you hear of people being busted for having them (somehow) Dhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16435915677126518313noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7420606.post-47075128247905814642010-05-25T23:27:46.913+09:002010-05-25T23:27:46.913+09:00@Orchid64, I think they meant handguns, but I coul...@Orchid64, I think they meant handguns, but I could be wrong. Are handguns legal in japan? Not many murders, nor armed robberies, are done with rifles or at rifle-point...even in the US. <br />I think violent crimes and the avalability and easy acquisition of guns are correlated bu, as Michael Moore noted in "Bowling for Columbine" (a fine documentary on this issue) the "fear"Locohttp://www.locoinyokohama.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7420606.post-79108059683572839662010-05-24T18:17:36.541+09:002010-05-24T18:17:36.541+09:00The "guns are illegal" in Japan myth has...The "guns are illegal" in Japan myth has gone on for decades. For some reason it seems to fascinate the US media no matter how inaccurate it is to repeat that old canard. I have noticed that in reporting on the recent spate of mass murders of school children in China that the US media always inserts some irrelevant comment about guns being illegal in China. Regardless, the children are Dhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16435915677126518313noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7420606.post-90047539051167952552010-05-24T17:57:09.076+09:002010-05-24T17:57:09.076+09:00Also, guns ARE NOT illegal in Japan. Hunting rifle...Also, guns ARE NOT illegal in Japan. Hunting rifles are legal, but harder to obtain than in the U.S. People are shot in Japan, but just not as often.<br /><br />Violence and crime are related to "external factors", but those factors are largely economic and social. A country like Japan, which has a lot of socialism in order to keep people employed (even at the expense of the Orchid64https://www.blogger.com/profile/07132543155589881288noreply@blogger.com