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No more weapons.(EXERCISING THE RIGHT)(Brief article)
Tomohiro Kato, a 25-year-old Japanese man, rammed a rented truck into a crowd in a Tokyo shopping district on May 8 and then exited the truck and stabbed the fallen and any passersby. He "stabbed 17 people; seven of them died," reported AE In response to the crime, "Japan's chief Cabinet spokesman told reporters the government was considering restrictions on large-bladed survival knives like the one apparently used in Sunday's attack, which had a five-inch blade," to go along with Japan's near absence of guns.
But such a legal reaction to this crime, assuming banning such instruments could even be implemented, is doomed to failure at preventing violent crimes, as are weapons-control laws throughout the world. Studies conclusively prove that societal weapons-control laws do not result in correspondingly lower violent crime rates; cultural values are the determining factor.
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Source: HighBeam Research, No more weapons.(EXERCISING THE RIGHT)(Brief article)