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The 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 fire
by curtisf 2y ago
The 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?