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Japan has almost no gun violence and, ironically, it owes its extremely tight firearms laws to the U.S.
Cbsnews ^ | 06/06/2022 | CBS NEWS

Posted on 06/06/2022 6:54:25 PM PDT by ChicagoConservative27

Tokyo — As the U.S. gun control debate intensifies, some Americans are looking overseas for ideas on how to prevent mass shootings. Japan has one of the lowest rates of gun violence in the world. There were more than four firearm homicides in the U.S. per 100,000 people during 2019, compared to almost zero in Japan.

As CBS News senior foreign correspondent Elizabeth Palmer reports, Japan's strict laws on private gun ownership have surprising origins in the United States. She met Raphael, a well-known Japanese YouTuber who decided to take skeet shooting lessons. Despite being ex-military, he had to jump through all the same hoops that any Japanese civilian must clear to get a gun license.

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: asia; banglist; bidenvoters; firearms; gun; japan; violence
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1 posted on 06/06/2022 6:54:25 PM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Also Japan controls their borders very well.


2 posted on 06/06/2022 6:55:28 PM PDT by for-q-clinton (Cancel Culture IS fascism...Let's start calling it that!)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Not many Crips, Bloods or MS-13 there, yes?


3 posted on 06/06/2022 6:56:02 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire. Or both.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Japan has no “diversity” to worry about as well.


4 posted on 06/06/2022 6:56:48 PM PDT by Midwesterner53
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Japan has almost no young black men.

I’m just saying.

L


5 posted on 06/06/2022 6:57:55 PM PDT by Lurker (Peaceful coexistence with the Left is not possible. Stop pretending that it is.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Japan also has insanely tough immigration laws and departs illegals in a heartbeat.


6 posted on 06/06/2022 6:57:55 PM PDT by 2banana (Common ground with islamic terrorists-they want to die for allah and we want to arrange the meeting)
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To: Midwesterner53

Bingo! No one fretting over how they’ve been ‘dissed’.


7 posted on 06/06/2022 6:57:59 PM PDT by beancounter13 (A Republic, if you can keep it.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Island nations can stop many things from entering their country as they can control all ports of entry. However if you have thousands of miles of land borders that becomes impossible and then only the criminals will have access to that which is illegal.


8 posted on 06/06/2022 6:58:03 PM PDT by LukeL
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To: ChicagoConservative27

1. Yes. So what.

2. Japan’s culture is completely different from American culture. They largely respect laws and cultural norms, and are ostracized quite heavily if they break them.

3. They are a homogenous society and share strong common values socialists here in the usa cannot exploit.


9 posted on 06/06/2022 6:58:34 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Japan is extremely different culturally. People have left their wallets on the subway in Tokyo, packed with cash, and found the lost wallets at the police station with all the cash still inside.


10 posted on 06/06/2022 6:58:35 PM PDT by coloradan (They're not the mainstream media, they're the gaslight media. It's what they do. )
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To: Midwesterner53
Japan has no “diversity” to worry about as well.

Correctamundo!

11 posted on 06/06/2022 6:58:48 PM PDT by Tell It Right (1st Thessalonians 5:21 -- Put everything to the test, hold fast to that which is true.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

What’s the gun usage/homicide rate among the Japanese community in America?


12 posted on 06/06/2022 6:59:18 PM PDT by BookmanTheJanitor
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Japan also understood in WWII they would not be able to make their way across the continental US because so many American citizens possessed guns, so they never considered it.


13 posted on 06/06/2022 7:00:14 PM PDT by God luvs America (63.5 million pay no income tax and vote for DemoKrats...)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Japan has a stable, and extraordinary, culture.

It has no immigration at all, and not an -ist or a -phobia is ever mentioned.


14 posted on 06/06/2022 7:00:36 PM PDT by BrexitBen
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To: BenLurkin

YOU SAID THAT OUT LOUD....WASN’T THERE A US BASKETBALL TEAM THAT STAYED IN JAPAN AND GOT CAUGHT SHOPLIFTING ?????


15 posted on 06/06/2022 7:00:53 PM PDT by Hambone 1934 (Dems love playing Nazis.....The republicans love helping them)
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They also have a non diverse population


16 posted on 06/06/2022 7:02:22 PM PDT by dsrtsage ( Complexity is just simple lacking imagination)
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To: ChicagoConservative27
Thank you, media, for keeping us informed about how all these more-homogeneous-countries-than-the-U.S. suffer less crime.


17 posted on 06/06/2022 7:02:50 PM PDT by Trump20162020
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To: ChicagoConservative27

This is so easy:
Chicago has some of the toughest gun control laws in America and still has by far more murders in America than any other city in America.


18 posted on 06/06/2022 7:03:06 PM PDT by SmokingJoe
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To: for-q-clinton

Remove inner city hood rat black on black gun violence, Messy-can cartel drug war violence and gang violence of the same demographics from crime statistics and America would become one of the safest nations on erff.


19 posted on 06/06/2022 7:03:13 PM PDT by servantboy777
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To: ChicagoConservative27
When the U.S. occupied Japan after World War II, it disarmed the country. Americans shaped the legislation that took firearms out of the hands of Japanese civilians.

Yes, because Japan was defeated in a war, conquered and occupied by a foreign military who intended to completely remake its society.

So it actually is a good indication of what leftists want to do to average Americans.

20 posted on 06/06/2022 7:03:15 PM PDT by PGR88
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