How would they defend themselves?

He KNEW that the Japanese were defenseless.

And that explains why Godzilla did not attack New York.

Thanks.

and people wonder why the dinosaurs became extinct.

It wasn't very nice lol

The Japanese citizen showed up with swords...no guns, which would had been equally useless.

I mean, that's how all this started, right?

That would make the British the legal government. And Washington a terrorist.

we'd already chosen to secede, we were codifying the rights of the citizens, and the possibility of an invasion (or, more likely, that the government would turn back into an autocracy). The British were apparently a secondary concern, but it made for a pithier comment, I thought.

We have a much more independent mindset.

And obviously willing to tolerate the mindless slaughter of tens of thousands of their fellow citizens each year as they worship a supposed "right" to own a gun.

Wrong to say it's about control. Some of us would rather not have innocent friends strangers or ourselves murdered.

No efforts in part of pro-gun crowd to suggest alternatives. The rest of us just need to learn to say "ho-hum" and be as uncaring as the other side. Who cares? Screw them, it wasn't me.

Ignore reality at your own sufference. I've suggested education many many many times, and many of us have suggested alternatives numerous times.

But they're just not gun control centric enough for most of the control minded folks.

But what if a gun owner or purchaser refuses to be educated? "Take your gun safety class and shove it!" Then what? Do we take the gun away? Or deny a person the ability to purchase?

It sounds like in Japan education is required BEFORE you get the gun, and unless you're willing to be educated you can't have one. Would you support such a system here?

of homicides and suicides than the Japanese use.

Independent mindset? More like the illusion of the rugged individualist.

....they only have 1 government run gun store I believe.

And yet somehow have a murder rate about 10x's worse then the US.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_firearm-related_death_rate

11.17 vs. 10.5 per 100,000

Did you use the same fact checker as Trump before you made that statement?

The metric in question, was MURDER rate not 'gun death rate'.

USA 3.55

Mexico 10.0

You may wish to have your own fact checker rechecked.

I was looking at homicides.....if you want to include Japan's suicide rate feel free...lol

US homicide rate: 3.8 per 100,000
Mexico: 21.5 per 100,000 (I was thinking of Jamaica at 39.3 but also a gun restricted country so works just as well)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_intentional_homicide_rate

US suicide rate: 12.1 per 100,000
Japan: 18.5 per 100,000

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_suicide_rate

between the government and the cartels. You would probably have to subtract out murders associated with those to be able to validly compare homicide rates to the US.

Very restrictive gun laws in all of them. Much, much higher gun death rates than the US. Not to mention South Africa, though it has more lax gun laws.

A little disappointed with the ending though.

Thanks.

and one of the first good series Amazon has done. It's from a Philip K. Dick story of a what if the axis won variety.

When I buy stuff off the internet, Amazon comes to mind, I give them my credit card information and the goods are shipped to my address (or to what address I provide). It is not legal for me to have a gun shipped to me without a background check. Prior to 1968 it was legal to buy a gun on mail order.

as long as it is legak for the FFL dealer to sell them to me at the point of sale .

I have not purchased a gun over the internet, but my older sibling has. He said " it's a PITA, So he refuses to purchasea gun over the WOW.

Japan has a 18.5/100000 suicide rate versus 12.1 for the US.

Japan: 18.5 + 0.3 = 18.8

US: 12.1 + 3.8 = 15.9

Its not just about guns.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_suicide_rate
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_intentional_homicide_rate

Perhaps you haven't been paying attention to the anti-gun folks, but they blame our murder rate and suicide rate on access to firearms. That's why you hear the number 30,000+ associated with the phrase "gun deaths".

My point is that comparing very different cultures is problematic.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suicide_in_Japan

Cross cultural comparisons can be problematic.

Is sky high. Also, as an island nation, there is a natural barrier to help keep guns from entering the country through a black market.

It's on military bases, where they may be carried throughout the day, but are locked up in the armory at night. No soldier has an assault rifle in his barracks' closet.

Am I missing anything here? The army feels that it's important to control arms, even with trained professionals.

Like you'd see in a bank, with more security to lock up all arms.

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 explicitly targeted Japanese tourists, drawing them away from beaches and resorts into shopping malls, to do things that are forbidden in their own country.

Waikiki’s Japanese-filled ranges are the sort of quirk you might find in any major tourist town, but they're also an intersection of two societies with wildly different approaches to guns and their role in society. Friday’s horrific shooting at an Aurora, Colorado, movie theater has been a reminder that America's gun control laws are the loosest in the developed world and its rate of gun-related homicide is the highest. Of the world’s 23 “rich” countries, the U.S. gun-related murder rate is almost 20 times that of the other 22. With almost one privately owned firearm per person, America’s ownership rate is the highest in the world; tribal-conflict-torn Yemen is ranked second, with a rate about half of America's.

But what about the country at the other end of the spectrum? What is the role of guns in Japan, the developed world's least firearm-filled nation and perhaps its strictest controller? In 2008, the U.S. had over 12 thousand firearm-related homicides. All of Japan experienced only 11, fewer than were killed at the Aurora shooting alone. And that was a big year: 2006 saw an astounding two, and when that number jumped to 22 in 2007, it became a national scandal. By comparison, also in 2008, 587 Americans were killed just by guns that had discharged accidentally.

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.

http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2012/07/a-land-without-guns-how-japan-has-virtually-eliminated-shooting-deaths/260189/

who explained the process of what he had to do to get a gun. It was interesting to see the amount of information that was required. Maybe one of our DUers who live in Japan can jump in and comment (there are quite a few).