Not true. In 2014, Japan had 25,374 suicides. The US had 41,149.
I think the author of the article is pointing out that Japan has strict gun laws, a sizable population and is a highly developed country and they do not kill each other with guns very often while the US has lax gun laws, a more sizable population and is a highly developed country and we do kill each other with guns very often.
You couldn’t see that comparison for yourselves?
I expect the Japanese murder rate is still lower than the US murder rate even when we remove all the gun homicides from the calculations. In fact, I expect Japan has such a low murder rate that they have even fewer murders than other countries with gun laws that are similarly strict. I do not expect that encacting gun laws similar to the Japanese laws in the US will magically give us a country as, apparently, non-violent as Japan.
Oh, you’re right. For some odd reason I was comparing Japanese suicides with gun suicides in the US.
Are we supposed to infer that passage of strict gun laws would lead to the low levels of gun deaths that we see in Japan. Because if you are not trying to say that then isn’t that little factoid about Japan kinda meaningless? If you are trying to say that, then you don’t know what you are talking about.
Leland Yee (a pretty rabid San Francisco gun grabber) got sentenced to 5 years for (among other things) trying to sell automatic weapons and a rocket launcher to an agent posing as a member of organized crime; he would acquire the weapons from terrorists in the Phillipines.
I see why he wanted the money but why couldn’t he just give a few speeches to wall street firms like everyone else?
If you exclude the extreme outlier of Alaska, the average population density of Japan is about 8 times that of the US (9.6 times including AK). Somehow, the Japanese manage to kill each other and themselves in much lower numbers even with being sardined together shoulder as they are.
The Japanese are ethnically homogeneous. AFAIK, they have no underclass
They do have a smattering of other ethnicities such as the Ainu people on Hokkaido island.
Not to mention the Koreans that they would just prefer did not exist.
There are also the Burakumin
Are you under the impression that I am the author of that article?
Don’t teach “sensitive topics” or anger students, Houston professors are warned after “campus carry” gun law passed. Apparently they’re actually concerned that their own students will shoot them.
To be fair public Universities in Texas have no choice about whether or not they allow guns in their schools. So I take it this ‘warning’ at a faculty meeting is a passage aggressive snide remark. Citing it as proof faculty is actually concerned about getting shot for discussing sensitive topics is pretty silly.
One University of Texas dean has taken a job out of state so as not to have to enforce the open carry law.
Because hey, what can possibly go wrong?
The Kansas shooter was a convicted felon. And yet, here is with guns…
Gunman kills 4 in home, shoots himself following standoff in Washington state. Just another day in paradise.
[Sarah T. Hopkins now charged with providing Kansas killer Cedric Ford with guns.
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