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Originally Posted by SSJup81
To be honest, I feel the same way. I don't feel that calling a person's job as a cop in Japan a "hobby". As you put it, a cop is still a cop. They still have their duty to protect and help those within the country.
I wish I could say that the US could get away with such things, as in hardly any gun related fatalities. I think, for my paper, I'm going to use Japan as my other example as a country where owning guns isn't permitted.
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Owning guns in Japan is permitted. There are about 200,000 people (regular citizens, not police or military) in the country licensed to own firearms. And gun violence does exist here. The mayor of Nagasaki was shot and killed by a gangster in a dispute over the gangster's damaged car and the city's refusal to pay for the damage. In another case, a woman at a health club was shot and killed by a stalker.
The most recent murder in the news was committed by another stalker type who killed his victim with a knife and then dismembered her body. Last month a police chase which ended near my home at Kujikuri Beach involved a man who was fleeing after being seen putting the dead body of a woman in his car. The car crashed into a pole down the street from where I live, and then burst into flames. The man was later caught, and the woman's burned body was recovered from the car.
Violent crimes do occur here.