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"In part by forbidding almost all forms of firearm ownership, Japan has as few as two gun-related homicides a year."
My opinion is that Japan has gone too far by eliminating firearm ownership. But you can't ignore the resulting impact it's had. It appears there is no correlation of gun ownership to population. To compare, take for example Switzerland, which requires firearm ownership which makes it (one of) the highest gun ownership rate in the world. Police statistics for the year 2006 records 34 killings or attempted killings involving firearms in a population of almost 8,000,000.
My opinion is that Japan has gone too far by eliminating firearm ownership. But you can't ignore the resulting impact it's had. It appears there is no correlation of gun ownership to population. To compare, take for example Switzerland, which requires firearm ownership which makes it (one of) the highest gun ownership rate in the world. Police statistics for the year 2006 records 34 killings or attempted killings involving firearms in a population of almost 8,000,000.