Good point. Assholes will always get guns when there are hundreds of millions in circulation. That`s Jr. High Economics. Doing nothing and expecting this country to become safer is incredibly stupid. Perhaps the NRA is right. It takes a good waitress with a gun to stop a bad customer with a gun to stop smoking in a Waffle House.Still far too high, and that doesn't matter a damn since the point is the same, dump the damn guns.\Working just great:Yes. Japan is a monolithic culture. That helps a ton. Import a bunch of black and Hispanic gangbangers though and the story would change. Maybe that's why they don't let anyone else in?
"The country's homicide rate is associated with a stable and prosperous society with low inequality and high levels of development. Young Japanese males now commit only a tenth of the homicides committed by their predecessors in 1955, and the age and sex distribution of victims tend to be uniform across age groups. This has been attributed by some researchers to, amongst other factors, extremely low levels of gun ownership (1 in 175 households), a greater chance of detection (according to police data, 98 per cent of homicide cases are solved), the rejection of violence after the Second World War, the growth of affluence without the accompanying concentrations of poverty common in many highly developed countries, and the stigma of arrest for any crime in Japanese society."
Why Japan's Murder Rate Is So Low - Business Insider
"Unlike the U.S., Japan has strict gun laws. Most guns are illegal, and there are tight restrictions on purchasing the few firearms that are allowed in the country, according to The Atlantic. Japan also has a rigorous testing and background-check process for those who seek to purchase a gun.
To put it all into perspective, the U.S. saw more than 12,000 firearm-related homicides in 2008, while Japan had only 11."
I noticed you "forgot" to post that part...
And you ignore the fact that 80% of those are black and Hispanic gangbangers. Remove them and what are the numbers?
And the point is you simply can't. Assholes will always get guns and all your policy does is make their jobs easier. You lose.
If you want to reduce violent crime the fastest way is to decriminalize the use of drugs. The overwhelming majority of crime in our nation is derived from that one source.