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Divine_God · Dec 19, 2012

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idc if he contributes to the thread later in his post; this stuff doesn't belong on the SFA.
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Post: U.S.A Gun Control
Forum: Something For All
Assigned Moderators: yaroow, sypherz, Superman, Shoop, malakadang

Posted by: Freddy Krueger
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GIJoo said: ↑

Yah when you're only proving an argument as to why YOU shouldn't own a gun...and your argument is only proving that there is a problem to the process of obtaining guns, such as lack of psych evals. Something I'm sure you couldn't pass...I hope you get help, though.
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Awww you gonna cry? Let me see you cry.. wahhh:'( :'( here's a butthurt report form.

mage3158 said: ↑

You seem to be missing the point, the chart would just shift from more legally owned guns to more illegally owned guns.

This doesn't prove murder rates would go down if guns were more difficult to obtain legally.
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http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2012/07/a-land-without-guns-how-japan-has-virtually-eliminated-shooting-deaths/260189/

Almost no one in Japan owns a gun. Most kinds are illegal, with onerous restrictions on buying and maintaining the few that are allowed. Even the country's infamous, mafia-like Yakuza tend to forgo guns; the few exceptions tend to become big national news stories.

Japanese tourists who fire off a few rounds at the Royal Hawaiian Shooting Club would be breaking three separate laws back in Japan -- one for holding a handgun, one for possessing unlicensed bullets, and another violation for firing them -- the first of which alone is punishable by one to ten years in jail. Handguns are forbidden absolutely. Small-caliber rifles have been illegal to buy, sell, or transfer since 1971. Anyone who owned a rifle before then is allowed to keep it, but their heirs are required to turn it over to the police once the owner dies.

The only guns that Japanese citizens can legally buy and use are shotguns and air rifles, and it's not easy to do. The process is detailed in David Kopel's landmark study on Japanese gun control, published in the 1993 Asia Pacific Law Review, still cited as current. (Kopel, no left-wing loony, is a member of the National Rifle Association and once wrote in National Review that looser gun control laws could have stopped Adolf Hitler.)

To get a gun in Japan, first, you have to attend an all-day class and pass a written test, which are held only once per month. You also must take and pass a shooting range class. Then, head over to a hospital for a mental test and drug test (Japan is unusual in that potential gun owners must affirmatively prove their mental fitness), which you'll file with the police. Finally, pass a rigorous background check for any criminal record or association with criminal or extremist groups, and you will be the proud new owner of your shotgun or air rifle. Just don't forget to provide police with documentation on the specific location of the gun in your home, as well as the ammo, both of which must be locked and stored separately. And remember to have the police inspect the gun once per year and to re-take the class and exam every three years.
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2012/12/14/the-japan-lesson-can-americans-learn-from-the-country-that-has-almost-zero-gun-deaths/

In 2008, when the United States experienced over 12,000 gun-related homicides, Japan had only 11, or fewer than half as many killed Friday in Newtown, Conn. That same year in the United States, 587 were killed just by accidental gun discharges. In 2006 in Japan, a nation of 128 million people, only two were killed by guns.
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Who cares about the victims, GUN RIGHTS! GUN RIGHTS! GUN RIGHTS! AMURIKA!
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Sypherz · Dec 19, 2012

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