How Japan has almost eradicated gun crime

[jimcrackcorn]

The United States is full of unhinged, stressed-out, crazy people!!!! Hell,, we just elected a wild-card for President!!!

My suggestion,, is to leave us the hell alone. There's no telling what we may do!!!

Sin-cerely,
Crazy Jim

Just Kidding (smile)<fleeeeeeeeeeeeee>.........................

[artyboy]

The United States is full of unhinged, stressed-out, crazy people!!!! Hell,, we just elected a wild-card for President!!!

My suggestion,, is to leave us the hell alone. There's no telling what we may do!!!

Sin-cerely,
Crazy Jim

Just Kidding (smile)<fleeeeeeeeeeeeee>.........................

lol not many of you actually voted, the lowest turnout in history lol!

[jimcrackcorn]

lol not many of you actually voted, the lowest turnout in history lol!

In the United States,, we don't allow convicted felons to vote until they finish probation. That makes up about 3/4's of the population!!!!!

And,,,,,,,,, they all have guns!!!

And want to use them!!!!

On Us!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

HELP!!

Crazy Jim

[matty7]

I am not justifying gun crime by any means, what I'm saying is that that solution works for Japan but wouldn't work in America for those reasons. You are never going to change the gun culture in rural America, where there is very little gun crime. In urban America you have racial tension, gang violence, drugs, etc. Of course you have in rural America as well, but per capita not like in urban areas.

i do understand what you mean - but here in the UK we also have all those things you talk about - racial tension. gang violence, drugs. etc - but what we do not have easy access to is the thing that escalates everything 10 fold ....Guns , we are far from perfect here in the UK but anything that can stop a school massacre has to be good - lets hope the politicians can do something someday

[drobs]

I like the Czech approach better.
http://www.express.co.uk/news/world/7513...et-weapons

Little known fact but British Citizens can still own firearms for hunting and competition.

[kindy64]

Yes, let's point to an entirely different culture and say look, they did it...

But what did they do?

http://www.nationmaster.com/blog/?p=74

A Japanese friend of mine explained that going to prison would be an unimaginable social stigma for most people, leading to a widespread public perception that crimes are mostly committed by foreigners. The belief that almost all Japanese are law-abiding also creates a system that routinely treats suspects as guilty until proven otherwise. In such a hierarchical and deferential society, suspects face enormous pressure to cooperate with the investigators and admitting guilt, leading to a conviction rate in the courts of more than 99%. The criminal justice system is founded on a strong belief that the criminal must repent for his crime – not simply being punished the law – and Japanese prisons are well-known (or notorious) for their strict discipline and order.

It is a undisputed fact that Japan has achieved a remarkable safe society compared to other industrialized countries, and they incarcerate far fewer than for instance the UK (with a prisoner rate 3 times higher) or the US (13 times higher). Yet it is also a carefully maintained image that ignores many darker aspect of the Japanese society. Its modern surface often doesn’t extend to social attitudes towards women in this male-dominated culture. Unlike the rare violent crimes, sexual assaults are said to be widespread and severely underreported. The existence of chikan (“perverts”, meaning men groping women in public) is a massive problem and has led to the creation of “women-only” carriages in most major cities. Japanese police are also criticized for failing to take victims of sexual crimes seriously time and again as a result of either chauvinist bias or an inability to investigate such crimes.

What are most disturbing are however arguments that the low crime is partially a result of a police culture that are obsessed with keeping crime statistics low. Former detectives claim that police is unwilling to investigate homicides unless there is a clear suspects and frequently labels unnatural deaths as suicides without performing autopsies. Coincidentally, Japan has one of the highest suicide rates in the world.