On Wed, 14 Oct 2015 16:01:23 -0400, Keyser Söze
wrote:

On 10/14/15 3:43 PM, wrote:


What's the mass murder rate in Japan?

JPS was talking about suicide, the bulk of gun deaths here.
Mass killing makes the news but it doesn't even bump the needle on the
murder rate unless you count gang shootings where they kill several
people at once.




Gotta love how hard you fellas work to minimize the mass murder rate here.

The mass murder rate compared to the murder rate is pretty much
insignificant.
If you compare your chances of dying in a mass murder to what it is
for a 14-30 year old black man in Baltimore, you are getting down to
the "killed by a terrorist" kind of numbers.

BTW, the suicide rate for males in Japan is 26.9 per 100,000, compared
to 19.4 per 100,000 here.
Suicide is a holdover of Japanese society during its feudal times and in
World War II. I suppose mass murder is a holdover of American society.

But they seem very good at it without using guns.

BTW are you following the story about the 12 year old who ran into a
store with a loaded rifle (New Zealand). He threatened to kill
everyone. Everything was there but the willingness to actually shoot
someone. Do you really think culture has nothing to do with this?