There are something like 130m people in Japan and yet firearm homicides appear to be at least a couple of orders of magnitude less frequent: "A 2022 report fro

There are something like 130m people in Japan and yet firearm homicides appear to be at least a couple of orders of magnitude less frequent: "A 2022 report from the University of Washington revealing that, while the US had more than four firearm homicides per 100,000 people in 2019, Japan had almost zero. Comparing high-income countries in the World Bank with the rate of firearm homicide per 100,000 people, the US had 4.2, Australia had 0.18 and Japan 0.02, the report found." https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jul/08/abe-shooting-why-gun-violence-is-so-rare-in-zero-tolerance-japan https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jul/08/abe-shooting-w... In my opinion, of all the things that count towards a society being considered more civilised than another, not shooting each other is right up there.