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Maybe it's a chicken and egg question? Why is Japan able to do that, and the US isn't? When practically everyone is a fellow Japanese, you don't have people g
by decafninja 3y ago
Maybe it's a chicken and egg question?
Why is Japan able to do that, and the US isn't?
When practically everyone is a fellow Japanese, you don't have people griping about universal healthcare (or social safety nets in general) benefitting the "other" who "don't deserve it".
Or feeling that you need to own guns to "protect yourself from the other".
- spankalee 3y agoThere's an easy link from guns -> violence. You're proposed link from homogeneity -> gun control is completely unsupported.
- decafninja 3y agoConsidering most developed countries have strict gun controls, the US is unique and you can't really apply the issues of guns to anywhere else. But a lot of pro-gun advocates cite that they want guns to protect themselves. My general point stands. If everyone around you is part of your "in" group, you're more likely to be willing to help them out and less likely to see them as a threat. I would like to believe that most people are able to transcend racial, ethnic, religious, or even national boundaries to help their fellow man. However, reality shows me this is not the case.
- rayiner 3y agoLook at the homicide rates in some Latin American countries with no guns compared to similarly disarmed, poorer Asian countries.