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We're not. But Japan is. 0% homicide rate.
A Land Without Guns: How Japan Has Virtually Eliminated Shooting Deaths
A Land Without Guns How Japan Has Virtually Eliminated Shooting Deaths - The Atlantic
Robbery in Japan is about as rare as murder. Japan's annual robbery rate is 1.8 per 100,000 inhabitants; America's is 205.4. Do the gun banners have the argument won when they point to these statistics? No, they don't. A realistic examination of Japanese culture leads to the conclusion that gun control has little, if anything, to do with Japan's low crime rates. Japan's lack of crime is more the result of the very extensive powers of the Japanese police, and the distinctive relation of the Japanese citizenry to authority. Further, none of the reasons which have made gun control succeed in Japan (in terms of disarming citizens) exist in the U.S.
The Japanese criminal justice system bears more heavily on a suspect than any other system in an industrial democratic nation. One American found this out when he was arrested in Okinawa for possessing marijuana: he was interrogated for days without an attorney, and signed a confession written in Japanese that he could not read. He met his lawyer for the first time at his trial, which took 30 minutes.
Unlike in the United States, where the Miranda rule limits coercive police interrogation techniques, Japanese police and prosecutors may detain a suspect indefinitely until he confesses. (Technically, detentions are only allowed for three days, followed by ten day extensions approved by a judge, but defense attorneys rarely oppose the extension request, for fear of offending the prosecutor.) Bail is denied if it would interfere with interrogation.
Even after interrogation is completed, pretrial detention may continue on a variety of pretexts, such as preventing the defendant from destroying evidence. Criminal defense lawyers are the only people allowed to visit a detained suspect, and those meetings are strictly limited.
Partly as a result of these coercive practices, and partly as a result of the Japanese sense of shame, the confession rate is 95%.
For those few defendants who dare to go to trial, there is no jury. Since judges almost always defer to the prosecutors' judgment, the trial conviction rate for violent crime is 99.5%.
Of those convicted, 98% receive jail time.
In short, once a Japanese suspect is apprehended, the power of the prosecutor makes it very likely the suspect will go to jail. And the power of the policeman makes it quite likely that a criminal will be apprehended.
The police routinely ask "suspicious" characters to show what is in their purse or sack. In effect, the police can search almost anyone, almost anytime, because courts only rarely exclude evidence seized by the police -- even if the police acted illegally.
You're the moron. It happens on a daily basis!
Yes, every day violent criminals murder innocent people...and other criminals...to the number of 10-12,000 people a year on average...
And everyday law abiding citizens use guns to save lives and stop violent criminals 1.4 million times a year...that number is derived from taking an average of all the gun studies numbers, I think I took the highest numbers from each, and came out with that number...it might be different, I have found a couple more studies...including one from obama's CDC that found 500,000-3 million times a year....
Guns save more lives than criminals kill with them...
Have you stopped to think about that?
Okay...again...here are all the studies that actually give numbers for guns used to save lives and stop crimes taken from the table I provided from guncite.com...
GunCite-Gun Control-How Often Are Guns Used in Self-Defense
GunCite Frequency of Defensive Gun Use in Previous Surveys
Field...1976....3,052,717
Bordua...1977...1,414,544
DMIa 1978...2,141,512
DMIb...1978...1,098,409
Hart...1981...1.797,461
Ohio...1982...771,043
Mauser...1990...1,487,342
Gallup...1991...777,153
Gallup...1993...1,621,377
L.A. TIMES...1994...3,609,682
Tarrance... 1994... 764,036
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FREQUENCY OF DEFENSIVE GUN USE IN PREVIOUS SURVEYS [80] Survey: Field Bordua Cambridge Reports DMIa DMIb Hart Ohio Area: California Illinois U.S. U.S. U.S. U.S. Ohio Year of Interview 1976 1977 1978 1978 1978 1981 1982 Population Covered Noninst. Adults Noninst. Adults Noninst. Adults Registered voters Registered voters Registered voters "Residents" Gun Type Covered Handguns All guns Handguns All guns All guns Handguns Handguns Recall Period: Ever/1, 2 yrs. Ever Ever Ever Ever 5 yrs. Ever Excluded Uses Against Animals No No No No Yes Yes No Excluded Military, Police Uses? Yes No No Yes Yes Yes No Defensive question asked of: All Rs All Rs Protection hgun owners All Rs All Rs All Rs Rs in hgun households Defensive question refers to: Respondent Respondent Respondent Household Household Household Respondent % Who Used 1.4/3/8.6[a] 5.0 18 15 7 4 6.5 % Who Fired Gun 2.9 n.a. 12 6 n.a. n.a. 2.6 Implied number of def. gun uses
Source: Gary, Kleck and Marc Gertz, "Armed Resistance to Crime: The Prevalence and Nature of Self-Defense with a Gun," Table 1, Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology 1995, Vol. 86 No. 1.[TBODY] [/TBODY]
Table 1 (continued)
FREQUENCY OF DEFENSIVE GUN USE IN PREVIOUS SURVEYSSurvey: Time/CNN Mauser Gallup Gallup L.A. Times Tarrance Area: U.S. U.S. U.S. U.S. U.S. U.S. Year of Interview 1989 1990 1991 1993 1994 1994 Population Covered "Firearm owners" Residents Noninst. Adults Noninst. Adults Noninst. Adults Noninst. Adults Gun Type Covered All guns All guns All guns All guns All guns All guns Recall Period: Ever 5 yrs. Ever Ever Ever 5 yrs. Excluded Uses Against Animals No Yes No No No Yes Excluded Military, Police Uses? Yes Yes No Yes Yes Yes Defensive question asked of: Gun owners All Rs Rs in hgun hshlds Gun owners All All Defensive question refers to: Respondent Hshld. Respondent Respondent Respondent Respondent/
Household% Who Used n.a. 3.79 8 11 8[c] 1/2[d] % Who Fired Gun 9-16e n.a. n.a. n.a. n.a. n.a. Implied number of def. gun uses
DEPT. OF JUSTICE...1994...1.5 million
(Subsequent to Kleck's study, the Department of Justice sponsored a survey in 1994 titled, Guns in America: National Survey on Private Ownership and Use of Firearms (text,PDF). Using a smaller sample size than Kleck's, this survey estimated 1.5 million DGU's annually.)
Lawerence Southwich Jr. 400,000 fewer violent crimes and at least 800,000 violent crimes deterred..
.(Lawrence Southwick, Jr.,Guns and Justifiable Homicide: Deterrence and Defense-concludes there are at least 400,000 "fewer violent crimes due to civilian self-defense use of guns" and at least "800,000 violent crimes are deterred each year because of gun ownership and use by civilians.")
-----------------------------------------------------------------7. Guns are used for self-defense often and effectively. “Almost all national survey estimates indicate that defensive gun uses by victims are at least as common as offensive uses by criminals, with estimates of annual uses ranging from about 500,000 to more than 3 million per year … in the context of about 300,000 violent crimes involving firearms in 2008,” says the report. The three million figure is probably high, “based on an extrapolation from a small number of responses taken from more than 19 national surveys.”
"Based on survey data from a 2000 study published in the Journal of Quantitative Criminology,[17] U.S. civilians use guns to defend themselves and others from crime at least 989,883 times per year."
As shown in the previous footnote, this study did not use a nationally representative population. To correct for this, Just Facts used the following equation:
As Kleck points out in his paper...
All of the eleven surveys yielded results that implied over 700,000 uses per year. None of the surveys implied estimates even remotely like the 65,000 to 82,000 figures derived from the NCVS. To date, there has been no confirmation of even the most approximate sort of the NCVS estimates. Indeed, no survey has ever yielded an estimate which is of the same magnitude as those derived from the NCVS.
Well, it would be interesting to see if either of these guys has preached any sermons on guns...it would also be interesting to know which lefty actors preach against gun ownership...and have guns of their own...or who have hired gunmen to carry guns for them...
Affleck Maher We Own Guns to Protect Our Homes and Families
The nutters are their own worse enemies and are accomplishing exactly what they say their fear.
"Worst," Pillowbite.
Further, if you leftists "support gun ownership" then what makes us "nutters?" The idea that non-party members be afforded civil rights?
How are we accomplishing restrictions of civil rights to self-defense? I have not advocated the forced disarming of my political enemies.
Easy question. People like you and Winterborn and Billo are gun nutters because you are OBSESSED with guns.
What is 1.4 million divided by 365?
3835
There were 3835 instances of law abiding citizens using guns to save lives and stop violent crimes in the last 24 hours?
You think? Where? Got any details?
How stupid do you feel?
Easy question. People like you and Winterborn and Billo are gun nutters because you are OBSESSED with guns.
Not obsessed with guns...obsessed with natural rights and the U.S. Constitution...which is under constant attack by real nutters...sort of like you...
