Re:Former Japan PM Shinzo Abe Unconscious After Shooting; Ma...
by tmnvix on Friday July 08, 2022 @05:04AM
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There are something like 130m people in Japan and yet firearm homicides appear to be at least a couple of orders of magnitude less frequent:
"A 2022 report from the University of Washington revealing that, while the US had more than four firearm homicides per 100,000 people in 2019, Japan had almost zero. Comparing high-income countries in the World Bank with the rate of firearm homicide per 100,000 people, the US had 4.2, Australia had 0.18 and Japan 0.02, the report found."
"A 2022 report from the University of Washington revealing that, while the US had more than four firearm homicides per 100,000 people in 2019, Japan had almost zero. Comparing high-income countries in the World Bank with the rate of firearm homicide per 100,000 people, the US had 4.2, Australia had 0.18 and Japan 0.02, the report found."
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jul/08/abe-shooting-w...
In my opinion, of all the things that count towards a society being considered more civilised than another, not shooting each other is right up there.