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- SpenceMasta, on 12/13/2007, -7/+56For the people referring to the ridiculousness of people having access to guns even if it's banned, in asia its pretty freakin hard to obtain firearms, yes its true someone out there might have one, but the availability of illegal guns is so minuscule compared to the US and other countries, even organized crime members dont even have access to guns and a lot of them walk around with knives and machetes instead
And another thing, having a long prong for self defense is better than nothing right? when i went to school there was never a defense stick available or anything at all for me to protect myself, so this sasumata sounds like a decent idea to me - 0crabby0, on 12/13/2007, -3/+50http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2XLIlARgTz4
- fusuke31, on 12/13/2007, -3/+49Couldn't find a video of the sasumata in action. Here is an American teacher's account of a Sasumata Drill in Japan. Hilarious.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d_f73iDI1Ws - jd33, on 12/13/2007, -4/+37"Don't Sas me, bro!"
- WasabiBomb, on 12/13/2007, -1/+27What if the mugger has a giant robot?
- K4Lic0, on 12/13/2007, -0/+22http://www.5089.co.jp/img/page1/sasumata2.jpg picture of "Sasumata"
(Whats the deal with the sars mask?) - WasabiBomb, on 12/13/2007, -4/+23"Personally, I feel a bit safer knowing that half the people on the block are gun owners and that I could throw a shoe and hit 3 different CPL carriers."
... and then get your ass capped for hitting them with a shoe. - Kurisuku, on 12/13/2007, -0/+18Well... In Japan, while it's true that there are many criminals with guns, they're the only ones with guns. In most cases they're part of organized crime, though -- Not petty crime.
Petty crime like this, mugging etc, it's rather unthinkable (to the Japanese, at least) that the criminal would have a gun. Unlike America where we're *ALWAYS* worried about getting shot, in Japan the idea of having a gun pointed at you seems almost like a myth. They don't plan for something they don't believe is going to happen. - sensoukami, on 12/13/2007, -3/+21I lived in Japan for some years, and I felt 1000 times safer there than I do in North America....
- kingmanic, on 12/13/2007, -4/+19US: 4.25746 murders per 10,000 ( a lot of guns)
Japan: 0.499933 murders per 10,000 (almost no guns)
Canada: 1.49063 murders per 10,000 ( a few guns)
UK: 1.40633 murders per 10,000 ( a few guns)
They're about 10 times lower. Apparently killing with a knife and car are much less deadly then guns or Japan has less angry people then Canada? - DreKor, on 12/13/2007, -4/+19While you're right, it's very difficult to eliminate all guns, Japan has done a pretty good job.
- WasabiBomb, on 12/13/2007, -1/+14... and yet it seems to work for 'em. How's that denial workin' out for ya?
- sparkmonkeyz, on 12/13/2007, -3/+16Is that really Steven Colbert's son? He looks a lot like him.
- DreKor, on 12/13/2007, -0/+12The same can be said of Britain. Knives are the weapon of choice because of availability.
- pbaehr, on 12/13/2007, -9/+21It's called the brack market in Japan.
- Chompy, on 12/13/2007, -0/+11Yeah but how many kids have 400-foot mecha stored in garages and underground bunkers across the country? Face it, Japan is a ticking timebomb of giant mecha violence.
- Arramol, on 12/13/2007, -1/+12"Judge me by my size, do you?"
- inactive, on 12/13/2007, -1/+11Dumbass. Almost no one less that .02% of the population of Japan has a gun.
- sensoukami, on 12/13/2007, -2/+12And despite the existence of said black market, there are very very very few guns in Japan, and gun crime is about as rare as hen's teeth...
- had3l, on 12/13/2007, -0/+9erm.... What is preventing the assaulter from holding your stick, pushing it aside and stabbing you?
- mandarin, on 12/13/2007, -1/+10How many muggers in japan use a gun anyway?
- Paradoxt, on 12/13/2007, -1/+9If used properly, I guess you could get the guy in the nuts and face at the same time.
- ashwinmudigonda, on 12/13/2007, -5/+13what if the mugger has a gun?
- mbelrose, on 12/13/2007, -1/+8Yes. Japan is a democracy. They have different values than the USA, that doesn't make them wrong.
- AlexBellisBrown, on 12/13/2007, -0/+7Im looking for one on eBay as we speak! =)
- l00s3r, on 12/13/2007, -8/+15Yakuza has guns. Proving the age old adage, "when guns are outlawed only outlaws will have guns".
- Chrisfromdevon, on 12/13/2007, -3/+10shall we just look at the gun ownership and gun crime rates of different countries. Oh look direct correlation!
- halavais, on 12/13/2007, -1/+7Hate to tell you this, but the death rate in both countries is more like 1000/1000.
- tanyc01, on 12/13/2007, -6/+12The Japanese are just wacky
- ljpj707, on 12/13/2007, -1/+7They punish them by taking the server down? Wow, the Japanese really take this technology thing seriously.
- WasabiBomb, on 12/13/2007, -0/+6I wasn't aware that sleepshooting was a skill they trained in the CCL classes.
- inactive, on 12/13/2007, -0/+6they are designed to be used against guys with swords, from the feudal era. I had no idea they still used them.
- capiCrimm, on 12/13/2007, -1/+7So? Does Japan have a lower suicide rate because of the lack of guns? No, they just jump into trains.
In jail no one has any guns, and there barely any gun deaths. Does that mean a prison system is utopia. Hell No. Look at stuff like how crime and harassment are affected by guns. Look at societies change when there is a lack of guns. Then tell me it's a better world when you can't protect yourself. In the US (and I'd assume in Japan) the states have no obligation to protect you. Many states even have laws preventing you from suing if the police fail to help you by negligence. People have died because of anti-gun legislation. - CedEx, on 12/13/2007, -0/+6And the funny thing about Japanese petty criminals is that most turn themselves in because of guilt and shame, rather than the cops "solving" the crime. Just an interesting tidbit I learned from my friend in Tokyo.
- floorman56, on 12/13/2007, -4/+9Japan doesn't believe in "Multiculturalism" What would the U.S. crime rate be if it was 99.9% white?
- Prosequi, on 12/13/2007, -2/+7While we're throwing around statistics:
Japan: suicide rate per 100,000 = 26.1
US: suicide rate per 100,000 = 12
From my armchair it looks like anger is turned inward in Japan and outward in the US - BurnTees, on 12/13/2007, -2/+7so, can someone provide data comparing gun stats in the US to Japan?
- keraneuology, on 12/14/2007, -0/+5It don't phase me, bro...
- simongzster, on 12/13/2007, -0/+5Uhhh, have you been to japan, because Japanese police are issued a sidearm. As far as feeling safe, I can walk down the shadiest japanese neighborhood at 4am, drunk and lost and not even think about crime in any way, especially violent crime.
- pu-z, on 12/13/2007, -1/+6Having visited Japan and the USA with in six months of each other, I can safely say I felt trapped and villified in the US, but free and secure in Japan. It started at Newark, where the border guards gave me the third degree upon entering the US and taking my fingerprint (again) and asking a lot of leading questions about my stay. The guy asking the questions was very, very rude and clearly uneducated in the ways of judging people. It seem to him, everyone in front of me was a worst case scenario. Even small kids with Scandinavian passports. A nervous person could easily get in trouble with his hair trigger. Twice during the half hour wait was someone escorted away from the line, that is twice as many as I have seen on my trips around the world (once). The fact that everyone, seemingly, was on their edge in Las Vegas and a lot of them (police, guards, probably some civilians) were carrying weapons did nothing to improve the situation. (I'm a gun owner myself but I keep them locked away in a safe. And no, I don't need them since I live in a country with some 50 odd murders a year and those are by far family murders.)
In Japan, the mood was very different. Nice border guards, polite and formal but very professional. The police was everywhere in Tokyo (the koban system, Google it. Love it.) and I felt completely safe there, since they were so organized, present and courteous. The people seemed confident about walking everywhere during the night and more free than in the US, where I got constant warnings about where to go and where to not go. I asked the hotel concierge if there were any unsafe areas, and he didn't understand the question. He understood what I was saying, but the concept that a whole area is unsafe due to crime was alien for him.
I guess the only place I have felt more unsafe than in the US is a back alley in Shenzen. And I don't think my gun would have helped me a lot there... - Asianwaste, on 12/14/2007, -0/+4People seem to forget that the reason why we bear arms is because the people need to be ready in case the government is unsuitable to rule anymore and is unwilling to give up their positions. Our forefathers knew that what they had set up is bound to be flawed or corrupted so they made sure the people still had a means to start over.
- euvirtual, on 12/13/2007, -0/+4And that is different from other countries how?
- combatchuck, on 12/13/2007, -8/+12I disagree that gun ownership and murder rates are directly related. You paint all gun owners as murderers that way. There are 2 shotguns in my house right now and I've never killed anybody. The thing that truly scares me about gun control is that people are willing to give up their natural right to bear arms to *feel* a little safer. When they are threatened, however, they will wish they hadn't given up that right.
The right of the individual to bear arms is not just to defend your home from invaders, but to defend your liberty. A tyrannical government seeks to disarm its population, because a defenseless people are easy to control. A well-known example: The Weimar Republic made it illegal for Jewish people to own weapons of any kind. The Jewish Military Union ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewish_Military_Union ) began an organized resistance to the Nazi invaders in Warsaw. They held off an army of hostile invaders from January 18 to May 16, 1943. This was with little armament and organization. How many Jewish people would have been slaughtered in the Holocaust if they were armed? My guess is that the number would be closer to zero than 6 million.
If you lose or forfeit your right to own and carry a firearm, you have no protection from a tyrant government. - Mytheral, on 12/13/2007, -0/+4if you can't buy guns... how about throwing Knives?
I'm pretty sure if I had a knife sticking out of my head I would probably drop the stick or at least ease up on it. - Buelldozer, on 12/13/2007, -3/+7Exactly! This *may* be effective against a knife wielding opponent but a gun wielding opponent will significantly reduce the effectiveness of this technique.
- inactive, on 12/13/2007, -1/+5scroll down a little and look at the m&ms... hehe
- halavais, on 12/13/2007, -3/+7Yeah, and yakuza go around shooting people all the time, dude.
Gun Homicide in Japan: 3 per 10,000,000
Gun Homicide in US: 624 per 10,000,000
Methinks it actually has an effect on how many people get killed, no? - AlexBellisBrown, on 12/13/2007, -0/+4Cant exactly call it a "concealed weapon" though...
- JesperL, on 12/13/2007, -0/+4kingmanic, [citation needed]
- SeigiWaKatsu, on 12/14/2007, -0/+4Wat sasumata with you?
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