Re: "Gun deaths are rare in Japan due to the nation's strict gun control"

Klaus Schadenfreude wrote:
In talk.politics.guns Phil Smythe <smytph@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Murder rate rises in Japan but total crimes fall
The Associated Press
Published: January 15, 2009

TOKYO: The number of murder cases jumped more than 8 percent in Japan
last year, despite an overall drop in the crime rate in the country,
which has long boasted of low crime, the National Police Agency said
Thursday.

The agency said that 1.8 million crimes took place last year — down
4.7 percent from a year earlier — with burglaries making up the
largest proportion, accounting for 76 percent of total crimes. It
marked the sixth year in which crime has fallen in Japan.

The number of serious violent offenses, which includes murder, rape
and arson, declined 5.1 percent to 8,588. But murder cases alone rose
8.4 percent to 1,300 from last year — though they still accounted for
less than 1 percent of all crime.

Gun deaths are rare in Japan due to the nation's strict gun control.
The agency did not have annual data, but shooting deaths accounted for
only 1.2 percent of the total killings in the six months to September
2008. Most cases of gun violence are gang-related.

Troll Phil Smythe would have you believe that the number of gun deaths
in Japan is rare BECAUSE of gun control.


The article he quoted states that. However, that's the reason Phil chose it.

For Phil it's all about murder using a gun. The article he cited states that murder cases rose 8.4 percent. To him, it seemingly doesn't matter how people are killed, as long as it's not with a gun.

Look at which sentence Phil chose as the title for his post: "Gun deaths are rare in Japan due to the nation's strict gun control."

Then look at the very first sentence of the body of the article: "The number of murder cases jumped more than 8 percent in Japan last year..."

Those people are no less dead because they were killed with a different implement, but that's not part of Phil's agenda--it's only about the guns.

In another post Phil said that demographics were irrelevant. But, the article he cites states "Most cases of gun violence are gang-related" which to me screams "demographics".

The whole article screams it's the demographics because Japan "has long boasted of low crime".

Doesn't matter to Phil, because it's only about "Gun deaths" which are rare in Japan "due to the nation's strict gun control."
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