Japanese Yakuza member shot....in gun free Japan....

[2aguy]

When criminals want or need guns, they will get guns.....no amount of gun control will stop them...

Man shot in Kobe in apparent gang feud - Japan Today

A man affiliated with Japan's largest crime syndicate was shot Wednesday in Kobe apparently in connection with a feud among factions of the Yamaguchi-gumi organization in the western Japan city and surrounding areas, police said.

The man, believed to be around 50 years old, sustained three gunshot wounds. He was in a car near the office of the yakuza group when the suspected gunman opened fire and fled on a moped.

The shooting took place around 6 p.m. in Kobe's Chuo Ward as the victim was returning to the office. The location is a residential area about 300 meters away from JR Shin-Kobe Station.

 

[Bobob]

When criminals want or need guns, they will get guns.....no amount of gun control will stop them...

Man shot in Kobe in apparent gang feud - Japan Today

A man affiliated with Japan's largest crime syndicate was shot Wednesday in Kobe apparently in connection with a feud among factions of the Yamaguchi-gumi organization in the western Japan city and surrounding areas, police said.

The man, believed to be around 50 years old, sustained three gunshot wounds. He was in a car near the office of the yakuza group when the suspected gunman opened fire and fled on a moped.

The shooting took place around 6 p.m. in Kobe's Chuo Ward as the victim was returning to the office. The location is a residential area about 300 meters away from JR Shin-Kobe Station.

Gun Violence Statistics | Giffords Law Center to Prevent Gun Violence

https://lawcenter.giffords.org › facts › gun-violence-statistics

On average, fewer people die from gun violence in states with strong gun laws

 

[2aguy]

When criminals want or need guns, they will get guns.....no amount of gun control will stop them...

Man shot in Kobe in apparent gang feud - Japan Today

A man affiliated with Japan's largest crime syndicate was shot Wednesday in Kobe apparently in connection with a feud among factions of the Yamaguchi-gumi organization in the western Japan city and surrounding areas, police said.

The man, believed to be around 50 years old, sustained three gunshot wounds. He was in a car near the office of the yakuza group when the suspected gunman opened fire and fled on a moped.

The shooting took place around 6 p.m. in Kobe's Chuo Ward as the victim was returning to the office. The location is a residential area about 300 meters away from JR Shin-Kobe Station.

Gun Violence Statistics | Giffords Law Center to Prevent Gun Violence

https://lawcenter.giffords.org › facts › gun-violence-statistics

On average, fewer people die from gun violence in states with strong gun laws

And that is a lie.....but thanks for playing.....

First, they do the dishonest, gun grabbing tactic of including suicides in the gun death total.....because some of the states with high gun ownership have almost 0 gun crime but high suicide rates.....

New Study Finds Firearms Laws Do Nothing to Prevent Homicides

But what jumps out at you when you read Fleegler’s article is that the decrease in fatalities that he documents relates almost exclusively to suicides. What his study really shows is that strict gun laws have little or no impact on gun homicides:

Compared with the quartile of states with the fewest laws, the quartile with the most laws had a lower firearm suicide rate (absolute rate difference, 6.25 deaths/100 000/y; IRR, 0.63; 95% CI, 0.48-0.83) and a lower firearm homicide rate (absolute rate difference, 0.40 deaths/100 000/y; IRR, 0.60; 95% CI, 0.38-0.95).

You Know Less Than You Think About Guns

Do Gun Laws Stop Gun Crimes?

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Another recent well-publicized study trying to assert a positive connection between gun laws and public safety was a 2013 JAMA Internal Medicine article by the Harvard pediatrics professor Eric W. Fleegler and his colleagues, called "Firearm Legislation and Firearm-Related Fatalities in the United States." It offered a mostly static comparison of the toughness of state gun laws (as rated by the gun control lobbyists at the Brady Center) with gun deaths from 2007 to 2010.

"States with strictest firearm laws have lowest rates of gun deaths," a Boston Globeheadline then announced. But once again, if you take the simple, obvious step of separating out suicides from murders, the correlations that buttress the supposed causations disappear. As John Hinderaker headlined his reaction at the Power Line blog, "New Study Finds Firearm Laws Do Nothing to Prevent Homicides."

Among other anomalies in Fleegler's research, Hinderaker pointed out that it didn't include Washington, D.C., with its strict gun laws and frequent homicides. If just one weak-gun-law state, Louisiana, were taken out of the equation, "the remaining nine lowest-regulation states have an average gun homicide rate of 2.8 per 100,000, which is 12.5% less than the average of the ten states with the strictest gun control laws," he fou
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Second... they have to explain this...

Over the last 26 years, we went from 200 million guns in private hands in the 1990s and 4.7 million people carrying guns for self defense in 1997...to close to 400-600 million guns in private hands and over 17.25 million people carrying guns for self defense in 2018...guess what happened...


-- gun murder down 49%

--gun crime down 75%

--violent crime down 72%

Gun Homicide Rate Down 49% Since 1993 Peak; Public Unaware

Compared with 1993, the peak of U.S. gun homicides, the firearm homicide rate was 49% lower in 2010, and there were fewer deaths, even though the nation’s population grew. The victimization rate for other violent crimes with a firearm—assaults, robberies and sex crimes—was 75% lower in 2011 than in 1993. Violent non-fatal crime victimization overall (with or without a firearm) also is down markedly (72%) over two decades.

 

[2aguy]

When criminals want or need guns, they will get guns.....no amount of gun control will stop them...

Man shot in Kobe in apparent gang feud - Japan Today

A man affiliated with Japan's largest crime syndicate was shot Wednesday in Kobe apparently in connection with a feud among factions of the Yamaguchi-gumi organization in the western Japan city and surrounding areas, police said.

The man, believed to be around 50 years old, sustained three gunshot wounds. He was in a car near the office of the yakuza group when the suspected gunman opened fire and fled on a moped.

The shooting took place around 6 p.m. in Kobe's Chuo Ward as the victim was returning to the office. The location is a residential area about 300 meters away from JR Shin-Kobe Station.

Gun Violence Statistics | Giffords Law Center to Prevent Gun Violence

https://lawcenter.giffords.org › facts › gun-violence-statistics

On average, fewer people die from gun violence in states with strong gun laws

Now that I showed you that giffords had to use suicide to get the numbers they wanted.......please explain how it is that Japan has a higher suicide rate than the United States.....

Then this......

Fact Check, Gun Control and Suicide



There is no relation between suicide rate and gun ownership rates around the world. According to the 2016 World Health Statistics report, (2) suicide rates in the four countries cited as having restrictive gun control laws have suicide rates that are comparable to that in the U. S.: Australia, 11.6, Canada, 11.4, France, 15.8, UK, 7.0, and USA 13.7 suicides/100,000. By comparison, Japan has among the highest suicide rates in the world, 23.1/100,000, but gun ownership is extremely rare, 0.6 guns/100 people.

Suicide is a mental health issue. If guns are not available other means are used. Poisoning, in fact, is the most common method of suicide for U. S. females according to the Washington Post (34 % of suicides), and suffocation the second most common method for males (27%).

Secondly, gun ownership rates in France and Canada are not low, as is implied in the Post article. The rate of gun ownership in the U. S. is indeed high at 88.8 guns/100 residents, but gun ownership rates are also among the world’s highest in the other countries cited. Gun ownership rates in these countries are are as follows: Australia, 15, Canada, 30.8, France, 31.2, and UK 6.2 per 100 residents. (3,4) Gun ownership rates in Saudia Arabia are comparable to that in Canada and France, with 37.8 guns per 100 Saudi residents, yet the lowest suicide rate in the world is in Saudia Arabia (0.3 suicides per 100,000).

Third, recent statistics in the state of Florida show that nearly one third of the guns used in suicides are obtained illegally, putting these firearm deaths beyond control through gun laws.(5)

Fourth, the primary factors affecting suicide rates are personal stresses, cultural, economic, religious factors and demographics. According to the WHO statistics, the highest rates of suicide in the world are in the Republic of Korea, with 36.8 suicides per 100,000, but India, Japan, Russia, and Hungary all have rates above 20 per 100,000; roughly twice as high as the U.S. and the four countries that are the basis for the Post’s calculation that gun control would reduce U.S. suicide rates by 20 to 38 percent. Lebanon, Oman, and Iraq all have suicide rates below 1.1 per 100,000 people--less than 1/10 the suicide rate in the U. S., and Afghanistan, Algeria, Jamaica, Haiti, and Egypt have low suicide rates that are below 4 per 100,000 in contrast to 13.7 suicides/100,000 in the U. S.

 

[Augustine_]

Japan: 0.06 firearm related deaths per 100,000 citizens
U.S.: 12.21 firearm related deaths per 100,000 citizens

List of countries by firearm-related death rate - Wikipedia

 

[2aguy]

Japan: 0.06 firearm related deaths per 100,000 citizens
U.S.: 12.21 firearm related deaths per 100,000 citizens

List of countries by firearm-related death rate - Wikipedia

Yes......their criminals don't use guns as often to kill each other....but that has nothing to do with their gun control laws..which they completely ignore when they want to murder each other...

2006.....

The Great Japanese Gang Wars



The season for pineapples (yakuza slang for hand grenades) may finally be over. Jake Adelstein and Nathalie-Kyoko Stucky on the bloody, seven-year battle between the Dojin-kai and the Seido-kai.



In Southern Japan, the brutal pineapple season may finally be over; pineapple is yakuza slang for “hand grenade”—one of the many weapons utilized in a seven-year gang war between the Dojin-kai (1,000 members) and the splinter group the Kyushu Seido-kei (500 members).

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The Gangs That Couldn’t Shoot Straight
The Dojin-kai and the Seido-kai are Kyushu-based yakuza gangs, once part of the same faction founded in 1971 in Kurume, Fukuoka Prefecture, by Isoji Koga. When the second generation Dojin-kai boss Seijiro Matsuo retired in May 2006, there was a fight over succession, and the group split into two factions, sparking a bloody gang war—where escalation seemed a matter of course.

It started with shootings and bombs being thrown, and before it ended, the two gangs were lobbing grenades and Molotov cocktails, shooting machine guns, and sometimes attacking their own men.
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In May, a 9-year-old child found a hand grenade in a rice field in Iizuka, Fukuoka Prefecture, and took it home, to the astonishment of his father, who handed it over to the local police. According to the police, there were no yakuza headquarters where the grenade was found.

The numbers of grenades used and seized in the war became so problematic that by April 2012, the Fukuoka Prefecture Police became the first in Japan to offer cash rewards to anyone who reported finding a hand grenade.

 

[Augustine_]

Yes......their criminals don't use guns as often to kill each other....but that has nothing to do with their gun control laws..which they completely ignore when they want to murder each other...

They're ignoring the law against murder when they want to murder each other, too. I guess they should get rid of it.

 

[Ridgerunner]

Bobob

 

[Crepitus]

When criminals want or need guns, they will get guns.....no amount of gun control will stop them...

Man shot in Kobe in apparent gang feud - Japan Today

A man affiliated with Japan's largest crime syndicate was shot Wednesday in Kobe apparently in connection with a feud among factions of the Yamaguchi-gumi organization in the western Japan city and surrounding areas, police said.

The man, believed to be around 50 years old, sustained three gunshot wounds. He was in a car near the office of the yakuza group when the suspected gunman opened fire and fled on a moped.

The shooting took place around 6 p.m. in Kobe's Chuo Ward as the victim was returning to the office. The location is a residential area about 300 meters away from JR Shin-Kobe Station.

Dude, really?

Some Yakuza get shot and you think it's headline worthy?

 

[bodecea]

When criminals want or need guns, they will get guns.....no amount of gun control will stop them...

Man shot in Kobe in apparent gang feud - Japan Today

A man affiliated with Japan's largest crime syndicate was shot Wednesday in Kobe apparently in connection with a feud among factions of the Yamaguchi-gumi organization in the western Japan city and surrounding areas, police said.

The man, believed to be around 50 years old, sustained three gunshot wounds. He was in a car near the office of the yakuza group when the suspected gunman opened fire and fled on a moped.

The shooting took place around 6 p.m. in Kobe's Chuo Ward as the victim was returning to the office. The location is a residential area about 300 meters away from JR Shin-Kobe Station.

How exciting......

 

[Bobob]

When criminals want or need guns, they will get guns.....no amount of gun control will stop them...

Man shot in Kobe in apparent gang feud - Japan Today

A man affiliated with Japan's largest crime syndicate was shot Wednesday in Kobe apparently in connection with a feud among factions of the Yamaguchi-gumi organization in the western Japan city and surrounding areas, police said.

The man, believed to be around 50 years old, sustained three gunshot wounds. He was in a car near the office of the yakuza group when the suspected gunman opened fire and fled on a moped.

The shooting took place around 6 p.m. in Kobe's Chuo Ward as the victim was returning to the office. The location is a residential area about 300 meters away from JR Shin-Kobe Station.

How exciting......

What is his point? How many people have not been shot in gun-free Japan? And what does the comment mean about less gun violence against innocent victims and more suicides? My interest is in the innocent victims and keeping them alive. Lives will be saved with stronger gun laws.

 

[2aguy]

When criminals want or need guns, they will get guns.....no amount of gun control will stop them...

Man shot in Kobe in apparent gang feud - Japan Today

A man affiliated with Japan's largest crime syndicate was shot Wednesday in Kobe apparently in connection with a feud among factions of the Yamaguchi-gumi organization in the western Japan city and surrounding areas, police said.

The man, believed to be around 50 years old, sustained three gunshot wounds. He was in a car near the office of the yakuza group when the suspected gunman opened fire and fled on a moped.

The shooting took place around 6 p.m. in Kobe's Chuo Ward as the victim was returning to the office. The location is a residential area about 300 meters away from JR Shin-Kobe Station.

How exciting......

What is his point? How many people have not been shot in gun-free Japan? And what does the comment mean about less gun violence against innocent victims and more suicides? My interest is in the innocent victims and keeping them alive. Lives will be saved with stronger gun laws.

Tell that to the 3 million people murdered by the Japanese Government during the war.....not war casualties...people murdered by the Japaneses government during the occupations.....

And again, those gun control laws did nothing to stop actual criminals from using not only regular guns, but fully automatic weapons and grenades......

Japan has a higher suicide rate than we do...so guns are not the issue in suicide. Their gun control laws do nothing to keep normal Japanese citizens from being criminals......they are by their culture conformist and law abiding...with vastly lower rates of all crime....

 

[Bobob]

When criminals want or need guns, they will get guns.....no amount of gun control will stop them...

Man shot in Kobe in apparent gang feud - Japan Today

A man affiliated with Japan's largest crime syndicate was shot Wednesday in Kobe apparently in connection with a feud among factions of the Yamaguchi-gumi organization in the western Japan city and surrounding areas, police said.

The man, believed to be around 50 years old, sustained three gunshot wounds. He was in a car near the office of the yakuza group when the suspected gunman opened fire and fled on a moped.

The shooting took place around 6 p.m. in Kobe's Chuo Ward as the victim was returning to the office. The location is a residential area about 300 meters away from JR Shin-Kobe Station.

How exciting......

What is his point? How many people have not been shot in gun-free Japan? And what does the comment mean about less gun violence against innocent victims and more suicides? My interest is in the innocent victims and keeping them alive. Lives will be saved with stronger gun laws.

Tell that to the 3 million people murdered by the Japanese Government during the war.....not war casualties...people murdered by the Japaneses government during the occupations.....

And again, those gun control laws did nothing to stop actual criminals from using not only regular guns, but fully automatic weapons and grenades......

Japan has a higher suicide rate than we do...so guns are not the issue in suicide. Their gun control laws do nothing to keep normal Japanese citizens from being criminals......they are by their culture conformist and law abiding...with vastly lower rates of all crime....

Tell that to who for what? I am referring to the now and not World war 2. That was then and this is now.