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Originally Posted by Sangetsu
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.
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I never said violent crimes do not occur in Japan. They just occur at a much smaller rate than in the US. Same with gun crimes. Hunters are allowed to have licensed shotguns for hunting and skeet shooting, but almost none of the handful of gun deaths in Japan occur from legally possessed guns. Most are organized crime related and are usually premeditated. In the US nearly 30,000 people a year are killed by firearms (including accidents and suicide). Japan has half the population of the US, but surely less than 1% of the amount of gun deaths.
So it isn't as much of a concern in Japan.