Japan's Gun Restrictions Are Far From Sufficient To Explain Its Low Crime Rate

[Kamaji]

Japan's Gun Restrictions Are Far From Sufficient To Explain Its Low Crime Rate

While gun control enthusiasts rushed to defend Japan's firearm restrictions after Shinzo Abe's assassination, copying that approach in the U.S. is legally, politically, and practically impossible.

JACOB SULLUM
7.11.2022

The improvised weapon that an assassin used to murder former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe last Friday suggests both the impact and the limitations of strict gun laws that make it nearly impossible to legally possess firearms. If it were easier to buy a gun in Japan, the killer presumably would not have resorted to a homemade, jerry-rigged device consisting of two metal tubes bound together with electrical tape. At the same time, the incident demonstrates that no amount of legislation can prevent someone from obtaining a firearm if he is determined to do so.

Abe's killer constructed a double-barreled weapon that was about 16 inches long, capable of firing two rounds without reloading. The New York Times reports that "it is unknown what kind of ammunition was used." But in a video of the assassination, "two shots can be heard, approximately two and a half seconds apart, with a deep report that suggests they came from a cartridge such as those fired by a shotgun commonly used by civilian hunters." The Guardian reports that police found "several similar homemade weapons" in the killer's home.

While they are less reliable and accurate than factory-produced firearms, such guns can be readily made with materials commonly available from hardware stores. A bigger investment is required for more satisfactory results. But even without prefabricated parts, Reason's J.D. Tuccille notes, a CNC mill like the Ghost Gunner 3 "can turn a raw block of metal into an AR-15 receiver." People also can "use widely available designs to craft a firearm with 3D printers," with results somewhere between the two other options.

"Japan has exceptionally strict regulations that prohibit the average citizen from obtaining a factory-manufactured firearm," the Times notes. "Civilian ownership of firearms, except for those used for hunting purposes, is generally prohibited by the country's Firearms and Swords Control Law."

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Source:  https://reason.com/2022/07/11/japans-gun-restrictions-are-far-from-sufficient-to-explain-its-low-crime-rate/

[sneakypete]

Basically it is because for all practical purposes,Japan is STILL populated primarily be Japanese people.

What few foreigners that live there are almost entirely white people from the US with prominent jobs that don't try to change the Japanese culture. They try to adopt to it.

[Fishrrman]

Mr. Sullum:
"Japan's Gun Restrictions Are Far From Sufficient To Explain Its Low Crime Rate"

Go to Japan.
Take a look around.
How many NON-Japanese faces do you see?

How many NON-Japanese are permitted permanent residency there?
How many NON-Japanese are granted Japanese citizenship?

Is "diversity" Japan's "strength" ???

[sneakypete]

Mr. Sullum:
"Japan's Gun Restrictions Are Far From Sufficient To Explain Its Low Crime Rate"

Go to Japan.
Take a look around.
How many NON-Japanese faces do you see?

How many NON-Japanese are permitted permanent residency there?
How many NON-Japanese are granted Japanese citizenship?

Is "diversity" Japan's "strength" ???

@Fishrrman

And THERE it is!

This is also the main reason their cars and everything else they produce are so reliable. The Japanese do NOT hire 3rd world workers to work in their assembly plants. They only hire other Japanese.

[Kamaji]

Mr. Sullum:
"Japan's Gun Restrictions Are Far From Sufficient To Explain Its Low Crime Rate"

Go to Japan.
Take a look around.
How many NON-Japanese faces do you see?

How many NON-Japanese are permitted permanent residency there?
How many NON-Japanese are granted Japanese citizenship?

Is "diversity" Japan's "strength" ???

Total B.S.  Diversity or the lack thereof has nothing to do with it.  It has to do with culture, which is not genetic, nor is it bound to genes.

[sneakypete]

Total B.S.  Diversity or the lack thereof has nothing to do with it.  It has to do with culture, which is not genetic, nor is it bound to genes.

@Kamaji

If you can't see that foreign invasion/diversity changes a culture,you are as blind as a bat.

Granted,sometimes these changes can be seen as a good thing,but all depends on how you view the existing culture of whatever nation is under discussion.

HorseHillary!

[Kamaji]

@Kamaji

If you can't see that foreign invasion/diversity changes a culture,you are as blind as a bat.

Granted,sometimes these changes can be seen as a good thing,but all depends on how you view the existing culture of whatever nation is under discussion.

HorseHillary!

/snicker

What “invasion” changed the culture of Southside Chicago?

If you can’t see that it’s homegrown culture, and not some nefarious “invasion”, then it is you who are irretrievably blind.

[Fishrrman]

Kamaji asks:
"What “invasion” changed the culture of Southside Chicago?"

The "invasion" that occurred starting in the 1940s, then rapidly progressing into the 50's and 60's.

[sneakypete]

/snicker

What “invasion” changed the culture of Southside Chicago?

If you can’t see that it’s homegrown culture, and not some nefarious “invasion”, then it is you who are irretrievably blind.

@Kamaji

Seriously?

First of all,the alleged "culture" of South Side Chicago wasn't changed,it was CREATED by the blacks that moved there and established the culture.

Then again,I could be wrong. It could have been the Irish,the British,or even the Italians that created that huge pile of shit,right?

EVERY immigrant group that moves to a new place is forced to find the cheapest housing they can find until they can make enough money/get a good enough job to be able to afford to move to nicer housing.

While you might want to argue about the legitimacy  of referring to blacks as an "immigrant group",the TRUTH is the first blacks to come to the US WERE immigrants. They came,just like the poor whites,as indentured SERVANTS,NOT slaves.

In FACT,the first man to go to court and win the right to enslave his indentured black servant was a BLACK man that came to the US as an indentured servant himself. He had a tobacco farm himself in Virginia at the time,which was given to him as raw land once he had worked off the terms of his indenture  that paid for his travel expenses,food,shelter,housing,medical care,etc,etc,etc expenses while he was indentured.

Anyhow,unlike every other group of immigrants,the vast majority of the blacks that moved into those neighborhoods never moved out or up. For the most part,they were content to sit on their asses and stew in their own juices.

There are very good reasons the ones that did work hard to improve themselves and move out cut off all contact with the parasites content to remain behind. They worked hard to get away from that mess,and don't want to be dragged back into it.

Just like the white immigrants that worked hard to better themselves cut off contact with their "white trash" relatives that were always trying to borrow money and drag them back down to the level they left behind.

The only real difference is it is socially permissible to call someone "White Trash",but damn near everybody would want to smack you down if you called "someone of color" "Black Trash".

There is definitely a race and class of people in modern-day America who must NOT be criticized in ANY way.

[Kamaji]

@Kamaji

Seriously?

First of all,the alleged "culture" of South Side Chicago wasn't changed,it was CREATED by the blacks that moved there and established the culture.

Then again,I could be wrong. It could have been the Irish,the British,or even the Italians that created that huge pile of shit,right?

EVERY immigrant group that moves to a new place is forced to find the cheapest housing they can find until they can make enough money/get a good enough job to be able to afford to move to nicer housing.

While you might want to argue about the legitimacy  of referring to blacks as an "immigrant group",the TRUTH is the first blacks to come to the US WERE immigrants. They came,just like the poor whites,as indentured SERVANTS,NOT slaves.

In FACT,the first man to go to court and win the right to enslave his indentured black servant was a BLACK man that came to the US as an indentured servant himself. He had a tobacco farm himself in Virginia at the time,which was given to him as raw land once he had worked off the terms of his indenture  that paid for his travel expenses,food,shelter,housing,medical care,etc,etc,etc expenses while he was indentured.

/snicker

And that's more than that comment deserves.  If we want to play the race-is-culture game, however, the white race loses, big time.  Marx was white, and his brain-child - communism - is therefore a product of white culture.  You're wedded to believing that communism is a good thing if you're going to take the race-is-culture position.  Good luck with that.

[Smokin Joe]

/snicker

And that's more than that comment deserves.  If we want to play the race-is-culture game, however, the white race loses, big time.  Marx was white, and his brain-child - communism - is therefore a product of white culture.  You're wedded to believing that communism is a good thing if you're going to take the race-is-culture position.  Good luck with that.

Japanese is a culture, just as Irish, English, French, Flemish, Dutch, etc. Keeping it Japanese keeps it Japanese. Here, we've been sold on a "melting pot", that only works if those in the 'pot' are willing to adapt and adopt the dominant culture with a smattering of all the other cultures that have been blended in. In reality, that isn't happening, especially since the adoption of hyphenating Americans, where their respective heritage (followed or not) is placed before being an American. Without time to adapt and adopt American traditions, people will tend to isolate and cling to aspects of their former culture, even if they are incompatible with American Traditions, or create some hybrid culture embracing the worst aspects of what they left behind.

That's happening wholesale right now with the polyglot being fed across our southern border without any thing to slow it down, including enforcing our own laws.

When our laws are viewed with contempt, the rest of America isn't far behind.

[sneakypete]

/snicker

And that's more than that comment deserves.  If we want to play the race-is-culture game, however, the white race loses, big time.  Marx was white, and his brain-child - communism - is therefore a product of white culture.  You're wedded to believing that communism is a good thing if you're going to take the race-is-culture position.  Good luck with that.

@Kamaji

Yeah,I must be wrong. After all,NONE of the people responsible for creating America were white,right?

Remind me again,which US state was Karl Marx born in.

BTW,you DO know that Marx was Jewish,right?