Ridding society of guns does not rid it of violence. Man is a killer. Remember that the Japanese were not pacifists until they got nuked and occupied into submission. An example of extreme violence in modern Nippon.
Raising a family in Thailand // Documenting Issan food, culture, music, and people
The sad thing is that gun deaths in Japan seem to be on the rise. Tokyo has had more gun deaths this year than my hometown. The last year has had more gangster-in-Tokyo-shoots-someone stories than I recall. They even got a foreigner a couple months ago, didn’t they?
Yeah, I remember something about a recent gaijin shooting in the news. A lot of them go unreported as well, for obvious reasons.