In Japan, even the gun enthusiasts are in favor of gun control

[SecularMotion]

ISEHARA, Japan — Chiaki Sakurai heard a story from his shooting buddies about an American school in Japan.

“I heard that there’s an American school here that has a sign out front saying ‘No guns,’?” he said incredulously one day this week during a break from target practice at a shooting range. “The school has a sign, even though it’s in Japan!”

It’s not the prohibition that shocked Sakurai, a 56-year-old who has been shooting competitively for three decades, but the idea that such a sign would ever be needed. Why would anyone be carrying a gun at all, let alone into a school?

The story about the sign might be an urban legend, but Sakurai’s astonishment was totally unfeigned.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/in-japan-even-the-gun-enthusiasts-are-in-favor-of-gun-control/2015/06/27/283cfaea-19a6-11e5-bed8-1093ee58dad0_story.html

[discntnt_irny_srcsm]

1. You control folks...

...need to first accept that you're thinking inside the box. Denying that there is a box doesn't help with that.

"The most successful tyranny is not the one that uses force to assure uniformity but the one that removes the awareness of other possibilities, that makes it seem inconceivable that other ways are viable, that removes the sense that there is an outside." - Allan Bloom

[Nuclear Unicorn]

2. Well, golly, if some guy in Japan thnks so what're we waiting for?

[Shamash]

3. Hey Secular

Since it is almost reflexive for gun control advocates to pad their numbers by including suicides and implying that we could save all those lives if we could just ban those nasty guns...

What's the suicide rate in gun-free Japan? Because last I heard it was higher than the US suicide rate and murder rate combined.

I bring this up because I wanted to know if international, cross-cultural comparisons are valid when anyone makes them, or if it is only when it serves your purposes to use them? And as long as we're on the topic of Japan, perhaps you could extoll the virtues of a culture so controlled that you need permission from the prefectural public safety commission to buy a kitchen knife?

[clffrdjk]

4. In Japan......

Not exactly a great way to start a discussion on how things should be done here.

[hack89]

5. That's nice. nt

[sarisataka]

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The article goes on to say Sakurai-san owns eight different guns. Is he still a gun humper?

[Fred Sanders]

7. Indeed the entire world is shaking their heads at American reverence of guns, as they once did about

the Dixie Swasrika being revered.

[Nuclear Unicorn]

8. I wish Americans could gain half the tolerance you show groups like ISIS.

[friendly_iconoclast]

10. ...or crypto-fascists like Putin

[friendly_iconoclast]

9. "What's the suicide rate in gun-free Japan?"

To further quote from Shamash's post upthread

I bring this up because I wanted to know if international, cross-cultural comparisons are valid when anyone makes them, or if it is only when it serves your purposes to use them?

[jimmy the one]

11. similar in britain

It’s not the prohibition that shocked Sakurai, a 56-year-old who has been shooting competitively for three decades, but the idea that such a sign would ever be needed. Why would anyone be carrying a gun at all, let alone into a school

Similar in Britain, where most all 'rightwing' tories would be appalled at allowing what are termed assault rifles in America. They are tories, but still they are socialist. Same with most all of them tories on handguns, they support the handgun ban across the country, except for the most far rightwing of them tories, unless I heard wrong.

[ileus]

12. I'm for gun control...all firearms should be carefully used.

safety first.....

[beevul]

13. Yet every single one would be blocked from bansalot.

You know its true.

[DonP]

14. Now I'm confused?

In the past few days the controller types have suggested we need to be more like:

Australia (watch that "comedy" guy another 12 times and it gets funnier every single time)

Japan (see, even the one gun owner we found in Japan likes control)

Britain (even the conservatives don't want handguns or scary black rifles and we're not too happy about that Wustof carving knife either)

So hard to decide which to ignore as utterly irrelevant first.

[Eleanors38]

15. The WaPo is recruiting in Japan, now?