[Nyororin]

There are weird and frightening people everywhere. The reason any crimes are brought up as so shocking with Japan is that Japan has a low crime rate to begin with. You`re not going to hear about every crime in a country with a higher crime rate - in fact, the higher the crime rate the less likely it is they will even report the crime on a local level. In Japan though, even mundane murders are often reported nationally.

That recent stand-off thing was pretty close to me. It`s no mystery where the guy got the gun - he was (former?) yakuza.

Guns are already illegal - why shouldn`t they work harder to enforce that?