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100% of mass shootings are done by idiots who have easy access to guns. Perhaps we should get a handle on that.
Japan does a reasonable job with background checking which can take weeks/ months to complete. A physical and mental health exam is required. The applicant is subjected to multiple LE interrogations. Current, prior employers are interviewed. Neighbors, friends and family members are interviewed. People are not permitted to own semi or fully automatic weapons.
Unlike the US, Japan's database is not dependent upon input from 3000+ counties and Police Departments within and/ or multiple branches of the military.
Most of the mass shooters in the US would not likely have been able to pass a background check in Japan.
Because the process is lengthily and costly, most people don't try in Japan and most people do not own firearms. The population does not live in fear of eachother and people don't feel the need to protect themselves.
Unlike the US, Japan does not grant its people a constitutional right to unlimited firearms. Instead, Japan grants all people Universal Healthcare which is ranked top 3 for efficiency in the world. In contrast, the US is ranked # 47, after Iran.
Politicians in Japan do not pose with firearms or whip pistols out from their pockets from at rallies to appeal to a minority of voters who own firearms.
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Japan does a reasonable job with background checking which can take weeks/ months to complete. A physical and mental health exam is required. The applicant is subjected to multiple LE interrogations. Current, prior employers are interviewed. Neighbor's, friends and family members are interviewed. People are not permitted to own semi or fully automatic weapons.
Unlike the US, Japan's database is not dependent upon input from 3000+ counties and Police Departments within and/ or multiple branches of the military.
Because the process is lengthily and costly, most people don't try in Japan and most people do not own firearms. The population does not live in fear of eachother and people don't feel the need to protect themselves.
Unlike the US, Japan does not grant its people a constitutional right to firearms. Instead, Japan grants all people Universal Healthcare which is ranked top 3 for efficiency in the world. In contrast, the US is ranked # 47, after Iran.
Politicians in Japan do not pose with firearms or whip out pistols from their pockets at rallies to appeal to a minority of voters who own firearms.
There is a procedure to amend the constitution IF you can get enough like minded people.
If the second bolded is true then you should have no problem going through the proper procedure,,,,,,,,,
Japan does a reasonable job with background checking which can take weeks/ months to complete. A physical and mental health exam is required. The applicant is subjected to multiple LE interrogations. Current, prior employers are interviewed. Neighbor's, friends and family members are interviewed. People are not permitted to own semi or fully automatic weapons.
Unlike the US, Japan's database is not dependent upon input from 3000+ counties and Police Departments within and/ or multiple branches of the military.
Because the process is lengthily and costly, most people don't try in Japan and most people do not own firearms. The population does not live in fear of eachother and people don't feel the need to protect themselves.
Unlike the US, Japan does not grant its people a constitutional right to firearms. Instead, Japan grants all people Universal Healthcare which is ranked top 3 for efficiency in the world. In contrast, the US is ranked # 47, after Iran.
Politicians in Japan do not pose with firearms or whip out pistols from their pockets at rallies to appeal to a minority of voters who own firearms.
I am glad for the people of Japan......but we are not Japan.
BY fatman do you mean Trump? He has been in office for less than a year, Obama had 8 years to do something and what we have is even more gun violence in Chicago, Detroit and other suffering cities where crime and drugs are rampant.
I think we can all agree that there is a huge difference in what happened today in Texas and what no doubt happened in these inner cities where one gang banger shot a rival.
The thing is the gun grabbers will never agree but we all know that if those who are intent on evil will find a way to kill. What if the shooter today didn't have a gun but instead he burst open the church doors and threw in a couple of pipe bombs or molotov cocktails? What if he had waited until church let out and he was waiting to run his truck onto the sidewalk and over people?
There is no stopping evil but the neighbor that shot back at the mass shooter... what if he didn't have a rifle?
What if the shooter did not have a firearm?
No shortage of people in the US who live in fear of eachother and rationalize their need for firearms.
A tiny portion of people seem to fantasize they will one day be the good guy with a gun.
The horse has long left the barn in the US. We will trend increasingly violent and gun ownership will likely increase. It's circular.
So what’s causing Americans to go crazy? Our culture?
The US is the third most populous country in the world.
No shortage of whack jobs in the rest of the world. It tends to be a tad tougher in the rest of the developed world to acquire a firearm, thus a fraction of mass shootings.
How do you determine someone who's a knucklehead then?
As far as I know, there's no secret sauce to figuring out if someone is mentally stable. Only until after the fact when the commit a crime is when we figure it out since we have documented proof. So... the whole mental illness argument doesn't work.. practically speaking. Restricting weapons however, is an easier solution and more practical. As all it takes is regulation/ATF to go in and start removing weapons out of civilian circulation.
If all the mass shooters in the US were subjected to the intensive background check/ processes that is used in Japan, it's likely most would have been weeded out, assuming they even tried.
The inability to acquire/ own a semi/ fully automatic firearm would likely eliminate most of the spectacular mass shootings. It would also contribute to agreater odds for the good guys with guns to retire the bad guys with guns.
The U.S. has a cultural problem in our inner cities. That is where the vast majority of violent crime happens. Homogeneous societies like Japan can not be compared to the U.S. Solve our cultural city problems, and solve most of the violent crime. Until politicians are willing to do something about that we will continue to have violent crime.
If only the people who need to understand what was said in this video had the capacity to. The more guns, the more gun deaths. Another mass shooting in Northern CA yesterday. Of the multiple places the shooter went, one was an elementary school. This is a sick, sick country.
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