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The challenge of buying a gun in Japan (Original Post)
AsahinaKimi
Apr 2013
OP
"This is a Tool that can end someones life, there should be a strict screening process"
trailmonkee
Apr 2013
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onehandle
(51,122 posts)1. Airsoft, of course. Swords in Japan are registered with the government.
Total nightmare for our knuckle draggers.
AsahinaKimi
(20,776 posts)5. Most knuckle draggers probably
hate "foreigners" anyway..and would never live abroad if they could help it. Besides living here with their weapons under their pillows make them feel less frightened of strange people coming from strange lands to America.
Glad I am not in their heads..
Spitfire of ATJ
(32,723 posts)2. Would it kill us to live in a gun free society?
AsahinaKimi
(20,776 posts)4. Well its
certainly killing us to live in a gun filled society.
Loudly
(2,436 posts)3. There is very little reason to want to own a gun in Japan.
An excellent model to emulate.
Politicalboi
(15,189 posts)6. But we Americans need them to
Shoot Al-Qaeda drones out of the sky.
trailmonkee
(2,681 posts)7. "This is a Tool that can end someones life, there should be a strict screening process"
This could explain why Japanese youth are exposed to the same violent video games and yet they don't have the same problems we have in america.
AsahinaKimi
(20,776 posts)8. Yeah if the NRA could Just
Show How many kids in Japan are watching violent video games, and then going out and show how many of those same kids are shooting up neighborhoo... wait. No. They can't.