Japan has one of the lowest rates of gun crime in the world. In 2014 there were just six gun deaths, compared to 33,599 in the US. What is the secret? [More]
Combine a culture of subservience to a de facto police state along with a homogenous population.
And let's not forget to talk about the great equalizer...
[Via Michael G]
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Very much a police State, I was amazed at how the police would just go into people's homes whenever they felt like it, on the slighest of pretexts. Like they didn't answer their phone.
And the U.S. probably had zero deaths on New Years Day due to choking on mochi, where in Japan every January 1 the traditional food causes numerous injuries and deaths.
https://soranews24.com/2020/01/08/mochi-the-danger-of-japanese-new-years-claims-another-life-rushes-many-to-hospital/
If it can just save one life...
Kleck points out in “Point Blank” that the gun homicide rate among Japanese immigrants to the US is as low as it is in Japan, even though in the US, the prevalence of gun ownership among the Japanese immigrants is much higher.
So it’s not the availability of guns.
The article fails to state that feudal Japan also had sword control. Sword makers were licensed by the Shogun, and their output carefully recorded. Only designated retainers/samurai could own swords. And all that weapons control made it easier for the militarist clique to control the people and ignite WW 2. (Many historians trace the start of WW 2 to the Marco Polo Bridge incident, not to the invasion of Poland.)
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