[gaijin]

Japan’s low crime-rates have NOTHING to do with it’s gun laws —it’s a culture that largely polices itself.

In fact here is the situation in Japan —cops have guns, and professional criminals have guns.

From a democratic perspective, just how palatable is that?I should add that in Japan the public prosecutor can hold you in jail, incommunicado and WITHOUT CHARGES for 24 days, often under round-the-clock questioning.

In fact the Japanese case is exactly what the Founding Fathers were trying to avoid, quite apart from crime rates.

[Brad from Tennessee]

[Japan’s low crime-rates have NOTHING to do with it’s gun laws —it’s a culture that largely polices itself.]

Confucian dogma says if children are raised in the correct manner social responsibility becomes almost instinctive.

[Nowhere Man]

In fact the Japanese case is exactly what the Founding Fathers were trying to avoid, quite apart from crime rates

Also, they are homogenious. Even so, I would not want to live like they do although I'd love to visit and go to the Akihibara district where they sell cool electronics.