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> the victims would assume it's a toy rather than the real thing, and so it wouldn't be as effective of a threat. I dunno... I was once mugged by a guy holding
by crazygringo 2y ago
> the victims would assume it's a toy rather than the real thing, and so it wouldn't be as effective of a threat.
I dunno... I was once mugged by a guy holding a gun that I was probably 95% sure didn't work. It was a pistol that was rusted and filthy and looked like he'd found it in the ocean or something...
Nevertheless I have him what (small) money I had.
I don't think a lot of people are willing to risk their life on the chance a gun might be a toy, you know?
- thsksbd 2y agoThere are basically no guns in Japan.
- curtisf 2y agoThe homicide rate in Japan is extremely low, owing largely to the extreme small number of firearms in the country: approximately 0.2% of the population own firearms (compared to 40% ish of US households) In a country of 125 million, there are only single-digit numbers of gun homicides each year. (The USA has about 20k, with a population a bit more than double at 333 million; about 800x the rate in Japan) It wouldn't even cross anyone's mind that it is a real gun.
- jojobas 2y agoAmericans intentionally kill more people with non-gun means (per capita per year) than either the Japanese or say Europeans or Australians total. Whatever their problem is, it's not guns.
- hiccuphippo 2y agoYes, the guns just helps with scale.
- idunnoman1222 2y ago‘owing largely’ is doing a lot of heavy lifting here have you been to the US or Japan?