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NEWS: U.S. House Minority Leader Cites Japan's Low Gun Violence in Game Debate

Well, it helps when basically all guns are illegal to possess for citizens aside from ridiculously regulated shotguns that those in more rural areas may have. Handguns are more than likely going to be tied to organized crime who smuggle them in, so I doubt any average petty thug can get his hands on one easily. No firearm will be laying around the house for kids to grab, so no school shootings using the parent's legally obtained gun, like we often see. We'll never have those gun laws in the US unless something unbelievably unimaginable occurs (no amount of school shootings would be enough), it would require gun-grabbing the hundreds of millions of firearms in the country, so bringing up Japan's system is moot.

I do know military otaku love deactivated weapons and air rifles (since they can actually own them), so the fascination with guns still exists. Instead of just tying gun crime to violet media, how about all violent crime regardless of whether a weapon was included? Battery, assault, murder, rape, etc, does any of that tie to video games?

Citizens are completely banned from owning guns as far as I know, unless they're in the JSSDF (maybe?). So it's not exactly the most useful of retorts. Also, I don't think Japan has anywhere near the amount of violent video games than we have here in the USA. What they do have is a plethora of adult erotic games.

Absolutely. No guns for citizens. Which is exactly what I'm for. Good example lady.

While I am not a fan of our current gun laws (or current mental health laws/practices for that matter), I am even less of a fan or Rep. Pelosi, so I would like to remind her that pointing out Japan, a country where nerve gases were used in a mass casualty event (luckily they screwed up otherwise it could have been much worse) and a detergent based poison gas is used for suicides (luckily I have heard of few collateral casualties) proves the point of the gun lobby that removing guns from the equation changes nothing.

Anecdotal evidence: as useless as ever!

penguintruth wrote:

Anecdotal evidence: as useless as ever!

Not anecdotal at all, just proof that a determined (and usually deranged) perpetrator will not be stopped by weapon selection controls.

But that doesn't tell you how many violent crimes WERE NOT carried out because firearms were not readily available.

Japan is a very poor example. Finland, Switzerland, Germany, and other countries that allow private firearm ownership yet have low violent crime rates in general would have been more relevant, but the gun control lobbyists have their own agenda to push, and like all other lobbyists, they ignore evidence that contradicts their chosen positions.