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Oscar
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Gun ownership.
Japan is very strict on firearms, this goes back in history by the way, back to the issue of banning Western weaponry and the age of the Shogun.
Australia (my home), most of those deaths are from pub brawl fights. Very few are actually due to guns, this is because we don't have guns (except the cops).
I don't think I've ever even seen a real gun in my life. I've never heard of anyone close to me or even a friend of a friend owning a gun. The only real guns I've ever seen are the ones cops use, and I've only ever seen the grip.
We have on average 65-75 homicides per year, most are spur-of-the-moment incidents, one-offs, most of the victims and offenders are males aged 18-40, from lower socio-economic backgrounds, the settings are usually scenes of leisure and transport (pubs, clubs, BBQs, train stations, parking lots), fists are the weapon of choice, we don't have gang problems here because there are no gangs (none that I've ever seen anyway), and most of those incidents are due interpersonal disputes. Stranger killings are very rare in fact.
Basically, we don't have guns.
We aren't allowed guns.
Then again, we don't need them.
There are alternative, non-violent means of resolving disputes - e.g. discussing our grievances with each other respectfully.
Japan is very strict on firearms, this goes back in history by the way, back to the issue of banning Western weaponry and the age of the Shogun.
Australia (my home), most of those deaths are from pub brawl fights. Very few are actually due to guns, this is because we don't have guns (except the cops).
I don't think I've ever even seen a real gun in my life. I've never heard of anyone close to me or even a friend of a friend owning a gun. The only real guns I've ever seen are the ones cops use, and I've only ever seen the grip.
We have on average 65-75 homicides per year, most are spur-of-the-moment incidents, one-offs, most of the victims and offenders are males aged 18-40, from lower socio-economic backgrounds, the settings are usually scenes of leisure and transport (pubs, clubs, BBQs, train stations, parking lots), fists are the weapon of choice, we don't have gang problems here because there are no gangs (none that I've ever seen anyway), and most of those incidents are due interpersonal disputes. Stranger killings are very rare in fact.
Basically, we don't have guns.
We aren't allowed guns.
Then again, we don't need them.
There are alternative, non-violent means of resolving disputes - e.g. discussing our grievances with each other respectfully.