JAPAN NEWS AND DISCUSSION
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MarieInJapan
But so far, thank you all for this quite active and interesting discussion! :-) It's good that lot's of people are taking part in this! What is a democracy if people don't use their right for freedom of expression!
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MarieInJapan
@vulcan
Of course, that's subjective. The feeling to be in the need of a gun is subjective, too, as long as there is no real enemy inside of your house. It's , anyway, more likely that a person legally in posession of a gun will be aming at you than a criminal who got hands on it illegally.
As long as there are gun-supporters, there will never NEVER be peace in this world.
But hey, I guess, you can't make much money with peace! War is so much more profitable, no? And weapon producing companies in the states would be the first ones to complain about a "too low rate of gun-use". You and others are just part of a big industry playing with peoples' fear and mind-gaming about some little "deals" with "local authorities" to keep the money flow. May I use some unpopular terms like "Mafia"? In other words, every thing has it's beneficiary. Guns should be treated like prescriptive medicine. You only get it if you "need" it. And "need" means for your job - Police, for example.
OK, if you don't trust the police while talking about the system all the time then vote for presidents that support "proper" institutions. I guess, lot's of people here have skipped the election couple of times in there lives. Am I right? :-) I mean, if you don't want to... Why don't you change to martial law directly?
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MarieInJapan
OK, I owe you one! But I'm against guns for so called "self-defense" at home in any country! Civilized or not!
To me your post looks like the states are going to kill a huge number of inhabitants if that law would break. Do you believe in conspiracy? :-)
Infact, you would be the first person admitting that things happening in Germany during World War II. would be possible in ANY other country in the WORLD, too! I'll keep that in mind.
I'm half Swiss, by the way, and I would never NEVER compare Switzerland and the United States. My mother would move in her grave...
People in Switzerland are far less aggressive than most other (European) countries, but they are not stupid! In a country with such a small population it is not about defense for the individual, but about the fact that there are not enough people in total to protect the country if necessary! That's bit more than self-defense!
Another thing is that Switzerland is still a very strict society. You'll be "out of the club", if you act improperly. That's something anybody there is really afraid of! Another way to prevent crime! That group feeling is pretty similiar to Japan!
But anyway, terrorists, bank robbers and jealous exwifes will ALWAYS get guns - with or without a faciliating law - if they really want to. But it shouldn't be too easy for them!
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MarieInJapan
I see that it doesn't make much sense here to explain "good" and "bad" to people here. For all those "yes"-voters it's meaningless anyway. But it's worth a trial!
Please, could you please tell me, why guns are nececary in a civilized country? Tell me when the middle ages came back! I think I've missed that moment! Why is it safe to know that you and you neighbor could kill each other at any moment with a shot gun, both claiming it was self-defense?
I didn't know people here are so blue-eyed. Do you want Japan to become as crashed as the U.S.? With guns all over your neighborhood and somebody shot to death, murder or accident, every couple of days? Is that safety to you? Well, if then, why don't you live in Iran? Or maybe go to Pakistan! I think there YOU will be VERY safe with all those guns and bombs in the neighborhood!
I don't need a country full of weapon freaks just waiting for a chance to use them!
For your information, not even paid soldiers in Germany have guns at home! A gun means you are a hunter or a freak! Freaks are dangerous with or without guns! So I'd be the last one giving them a colt!
And when ever I hear about a death through a gunshot in Germany, which is very rare, it was a hunter or a freak! Understood that tragic comedy??
And about that check up; do you know how many little shops actually give a damn about that customer-check-up??!! And don't you think it makes it much much easier to get a gun illegally, if guns are available to a "wider public"?
A law like that ITSSELF is making it necessary to have a gun. If your neighbor doesn't have it, please, then what do you need it for?
What kind of civilized country are the states that you have to suspect the next best person passing by being a killer??!!
You don't need to start talking about civil war, weapon culture or what ever!
What do you REALLY need that gun for? To scare people??? Maybe you will be so scared that in the end YOU will KILL somebody by accident!
I don't want to be the neighbor of someone having a gun in his house! Do you?
Would you vote for free drugs, too?? Guys, what's wrong with you?
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MarieInJapan
Of course people who support this are Americans. The states are so paranoid about their safety that they are suspicious about anyone anywhere. The whole neighborhood; one can be a serial killer!
But honestly, somebody who is voting with "yes" can be the next serial killer on the news tomorrow! Who knows?
A civil right means ANYYBODY would be entitled to get a gun! I guess that all the people here voting "yes" know somebody that they would definitely NOT want to see with a loaded gun! I could think of a lot of guys and girls!
But now a little question: what has a gun to do with self-defense??? A nife or using your fists is something I would call self-defense. A gun is to KILL! Which chance do you leave to the other one? How do you know you would have been killed while NOT having a gun?? Never heard of the studies that people carrying a gun are killed several times more often, when it comes to confrontation, than people who were not? I think, for some people here civil war has never ended! So from the battlefields now to your neighborhood? Very interesting! And after a law like that would have passed you would still send your kids to school or let them play on the street? Are you mad???
With this scenario in mind, yes, in a country full of guns life is only safe with a gun!
Ask yourselves:
Are the states safe because of guns? When I think about cities like New York than I have to doubt that... My husband's classmate at CCNY was shot and nearly died. Now don't tell me he would have been safer with a gun! A gun nearly killed him!
Or think about Afganistan: Oh yeah, of course, it's very safe there with all those guns! And in Ruanda it's even more safe!
Ever been to Europe? I feel much safer there, knowing people do NOT have so many guns. In my neighborhood in Germany only hunters use to have guns. And because of that people think they are suspicious!
I wonder what all those people in the past fighting for freedom and peace would say, if we would tell them that the result of their fight is "guns for everyone"! Any gun is a gun more against peace! You don't have to be a pacifist to understand that!
What sort of ideology were you taught at school??
"Let's pray for NRA!" ???
To clearify; I'm not against protecting your country on YOUR ground! But war should be kept a minimum if not completely avoided and it shouldn't reach our living room!!!
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MarieInJapan
I'm sick of those guys here writing about things they CAN NOT understand!!! How many of you here are female?? How many actually have kids?? A post natal depression can happen to ANY mother! Some mothers throw their kids out of the window! They ARE NOT themselves!!! If it happens to you or your girlfriend... THEN you will understand it!
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MarieInJapan
Even if you don't believe it; some people are skinny by nature! Me, too! That doesn't mean we don't gain any weight at all. But it takes some time for us. But getting muscles is difficult, too... But having Japanese AND western genes ain't the worest to create a nice body shape, anyway! ;-) There are lots of good examples!
I'm German, my husband is Japanese. I hope our kids will become as pretty and happy as LIZA in the future. ;-) But if they go after my height (188cm!!!), then they might at least have pretty long leggs! ;-)
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MarieInJapan
Genmai and nuts. You can survive on that for quite a while. But its more important to have a knife with you than any food. You can cut wild vegetables and - if you really have to - kill an animal like a rabbit. You don't even need a pan to heat that. Or you can protect yourself with a knife.
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MarieInJapan
Damn, WMD! Don't you get that's the too-easy-way! My mom did "that" 2 years ago and she has left a mess of a family and a broken left behind husband - my father. If anybody here is smart enough to understand all those circumstances, then better stick to your lifes. Remember what happened after the last big recession; we've had a world war! You can loose your life easier than you think and at a time when you definitely want to keep it. So don't post comments like that.
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MarieInJapan
I think it once has been a luck to the Japanese country and society that things that appear and establish gradually are just being tolerated. The only way to survive in a country with so hard living conditions and complicated politics in the past. But it has become a bane since times have changed completely and things appear to be tolerated that are completely unnecessary to the survival of the country but to cause its own destruction. Like the number of kids and adults committing suicide. In a society were things are generally being tolerated changes are almost impossible. So if nothing serious is going to happen that puts families back together to what they are really made for- protect your own kind- then everything will just stay as it is and simply become a part of the large number of Japanese traditions.
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MarieInJapan
What's wrong with Japanese guys in their 30s?
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MarieInJapan
This woman is absolutely amazing!
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MarieInJapan
Why a spoon? :))
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