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JohnSmith909-2 commented at 2013-10-11 19:17:22 » #1414833
Knives: because guns just aren't personal enough for the girl whose sick and tired of high school hell.
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Knives: because guns just aren't personal enough for the girl whose sick and tired of high school hell.
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MCSuire commented at 2014-01-06 23:50:05 » #1466716
Actually, most guns are illegal in Japan. Sport shotguns and air rifles only, and even then you need to do some serious paperwork just to get a permit for those things.
So yeah, the chance of an a real school shooting happening in Japan is massively unlikely. A hunting knife is about as lethal as the average civilian can get over there.
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Actually, most guns are illegal in Japan. Sport shotguns and air rifles only, and even then you need to do some serious paperwork just to get a permit for those things.
So yeah, the chance of an a real school shooting happening in Japan is massively unlikely. A hunting knife is about as lethal as the average civilian can get over there.
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Anonymous commented at 2019-03-12 09:24:41 » #2348218
"If you want to get a gun, you're going to get it whether they are legal or not."
I know it's hilarious and dumb to argue guns with a two year old comment on gelbooru.com, but I see that line repeated all over the place and I just gotta say something.
I want you to think about this in a probabilistic, thermodynamic way.
Out there in the world there are many different sorts of people. Some are determined, others impulsive. Some able to plan and orient themselves toward far-off goals, others not. Some are psychopaths or narcissists able to pursue anti-social goals for a sustained period without internal discomfort or dissonance, while others with normal neurologies "come to their senses" and are overwhelmed with guilt after the initial impulse fades.
These people move through life, experience the ups and downs, aging and navigating the modern world, their minds changing each day, their world-views and attitudes continually shifting. Some of them slip into dangerous mindsets, and of these some of them get better or are distracted as their life conditions improve, while others continue to stew. Like a bunch of lottery balls in a tumbler.
So over time we have people with different mental traits spending variable periods of time in various dangerous headspaces. Some portion of them begin to contemplate harming others. When we zoom out and look at the whole population, the whole society, all of this becomes a sort of statistical mass, a random violent event generator. Rolling a bunch of human dice every day.
The harder it is to get a gun, and the more obscure those pathways to gun ownership are, the fewer gun attacks there will be. Someone who really wants to climb a mountain will do so, but far more people will climb a local hill in the park with a paved path to the top. Many people will think about climbing a mountain, and some will research it for a while, others will even look into local climbing schools, but not many people actually physically end up at the top of that mountain.
The difficulty of climbing the mountain reduces the frequency of summiting events.
The difficulty of obtaining a gun reduces the frequency of shooting events.
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"If you want to get a gun, you're going to get it whether they are legal or not."
I know it's hilarious and dumb to argue guns with a two year old comment on gelbooru.com, but I see that line repeated all over the place and I just gotta say something.
I want you to think about this in a probabilistic, thermodynamic way.
Out there in the world there are many different sorts of people. Some are determined, others impulsive. Some able to plan and orient themselves toward far-off goals, others not. Some are psychopaths or narcissists able to pursue anti-social goals for a sustained period without internal discomfort or dissonance, while others with normal neurologies "come to their senses" and are overwhelmed with guilt after the initial impulse fades.
These people move through life, experience the ups and downs, aging and navigating the modern world, their minds changing each day, their world-views and attitudes continually shifting. Some of them slip into dangerous mindsets, and of these some of them get better or are distracted as their life conditions improve, while others continue to stew. Like a bunch of lottery balls in a tumbler.
So over time we have people with different mental traits spending variable periods of time in various dangerous headspaces. Some portion of them begin to contemplate harming others. When we zoom out and look at the whole population, the whole society, all of this becomes a sort of statistical mass, a random violent event generator. Rolling a bunch of human dice every day.
The harder it is to get a gun, and the more obscure those pathways to gun ownership are, the fewer gun attacks there will be. Someone who really wants to climb a mountain will do so, but far more people will climb a local hill in the park with a paved path to the top. Many people will think about climbing a mountain, and some will research it for a while, others will even look into local climbing schools, but not many people actually physically end up at the top of that mountain.
The difficulty of climbing the mountain reduces the frequency of summiting events.
The difficulty of obtaining a gun reduces the frequency of shooting events.
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Anonymous commented at 2019-12-09 02:48:15 » #2467651
Japans gun laws also make the black market guns and ammo that there are extremely expensive. A single magazine full is more than you'd get from the average armed robbery. Being convicted of firing an illegal gun can carry a life sentence. So even if you could afford the ammo to practice very few people have the room to practice making most criminals lousy shots. It is possible to legally own a gun in Japan, but it's strictly regulated and unlikely individuals with criminal intent could pass. More info here: www.japantimes.co.jp/news...-fear-of-japans-gun-laws/
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Japans gun laws also make the black market guns and ammo that there are extremely expensive. A single magazine full is more than you'd get from the average armed robbery. Being convicted of firing an illegal gun can carry a life sentence. So even if you could afford the ammo to practice very few people have the room to practice making most criminals lousy shots. It is possible to legally own a gun in Japan, but it's strictly regulated and unlikely individuals with criminal intent could pass. More info here: www.japantimes.co.jp/news...-fear-of-japans-gun-laws/
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