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A Land Without Guns: How Japan Has Virtually Eliminated Shooting Deaths

Atlantic Monthly by Max Fisher | Jul. 23, 2012 (Special Report)

I've heard it said that, if you take a walk around Waikiki, it's only a matter of time until someone hands you a flyer of scantily clad women clutching handguns, overlaid with English and maybe Japanese text advertising one of the many local shooting ranges. The city's largest, the Royal Hawaiian Shooting Club, advertises instructors fluent in Japanese, which is also the default language of its website. For years, this peculiar Hawaiian industry has ... Full Story »

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Posted by: Posted by Pamela Hogle - Jul 23, 2012 - 10:47 PM PDT
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Edited by: Pamela Hogle - Jul 24, 2012 - 9:45 AM PDT

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Walter Cox
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 by Walter Cox - Jul. 24, 2012

There are a number of problems with this article. The first is that there is no mention of Japan's overall homicide rates by means unrelated to guns--the reader has no way to compare homicide rates. A second problem has to do with how homicides are reported in Japan; homicides that are "crimes of passion" (jealous spouses, boyfriends, girlfriends, and so on) are not included in homicide statistics. Additionally, here in the United States most gun homicides are committed in ghetto situations and involve drug-related battles over turf, vendettas, and gang loyalty. Japan does not have "ghettos" in the American sense.

For this article to be rated higher, it would have to provide much more context.

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