The Remarkable Decline in Home Burglary Rates in Japan

Re:The Remarkable Decline in Home Burglary Rates in Japan by encody on Monday December 18, 2023 @04:27AM (#38680646)

Anecdote: I live in Japan, and one of my closest friends has had her house broken into three times. Rural Saitama. She said she wishes she had a gun.

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Re:The Remarkable Decline in Home Burglary Rates in Japan by woutr_be on Monday December 18, 2023 @05:46AM (#38681040)

Did you ever inquire about her reasoning behind it? If she can get a gun, the robbers most definitely can get a gun, I’m not sure if that makes in any safer.

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Re:The Remarkable Decline in Home Burglary Rates in Japan by l8_to_catch_up on Monday December 18, 2023 @07:33AM (#38681607)

If they get a gun, she can get a bazooka.

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Re:The Remarkable Decline in Home Burglary Rates in Japan by encody on Monday December 18, 2023 @06:35AM (#38681280)

Gun ownership is generally illegal in Japan. It was probably just a trauma response.

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Re:The Remarkable Decline in Home Burglary Rates in Japan by hackeraccount on Monday December 18, 2023 @09:08AM (#38682693)

If I had to pick between me and the robber being armed or both of us being unarmed I'd go for the later.

The first time I got robbed. Probably the second. By the third or fourth time though I'd be leaning more towards needing that to stop and less towards the worry about needing to shoot someone over a stolen T.V. or getting shot in turn.

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Re:The Remarkable Decline in Home Burglary Rates in Japan by weregiraffe on Tuesday December 19, 2023 @01:31AM (#38692527)

What if she's an old lady in a wheelchair? A gun is a power equalizer.

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