https://www.policyforum.net/putting-guns-away-good/ The APPS Policy Forum a public policy website devoted to Asia and the Pacific. Fri, 05 May 2017 01:33:39 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.1.7 https://www.policyforum.net/putting-guns-away-good/#comment-8927 Fri, 05 May 2017 01:33:39 +0000 https://www.policyforum.net/?p=17811#comment-8927 Japan has continuing problems with wild boar, some of which are radioactive, and bears, that can only be resolved with rifles and capable shooters. There is also a huge market for ‘air-soft’ plastic pellet guns. Yes, most Japanese are brainwashed into believing that their defense is best left to the police, but the low rate of violent crime is a function of culture, not the lack of weapons. Your article is wishful thinking based on the assumption that a disarned community is a safe community. We have seen how that worked out historically in numerous cases — in Germany with the rise of Hitler, in China with tens of millions murdered by Chairman Mao, and presently in Venezuela. In each of these cases, only the government and proven supporters were allowed to be armed, with inconceivably tragic consequences.

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