At the risk of exploiting a tragedy to flog a hobbyhorse, today’s story out of Japan underscores the point of the two posts immediately below:

TOKYO — Screaming as he randomly stabbed shoppers with a hunting knife, a man killed seven people and injured 11 others at lunchtime Sunday in a Tokyo retail district.

Tomohiro Kato, 25, drove a white, two-ton rental truck into a crowd of pedestrians, running over at least three people, and then emerged from the truck with a large knife, according to police officers and witnesses.

Indiscriminately slashing and stabbing as he went, the assailant then ran and walked through the center of the Akihabara neighborhood, where thousands of young men from Japan and around the world gather for gadgets, comic books and computer games.

“I am tired of life,” police said Kato told them later. “I came to Akihabara to kill people. It didn’t matter who they were. I came alone.”

Maybe it would be more productive to explore the, ah, “root causes” of such incidents instead of fixating on one particular instrument, or category of instruments, used to wreak the destruction. If it’s not guns, or knives, or trucks, it will be something else:

ALGIERS (Agence France-Presse) — A double bombing on Sunday east of Algiers killed 12 people, including a French engineer and several members of the security forces, government officials said.

If you will do some research, most types of knives are banned from ownership in Japan, with the exception being cooking knives and such..So whats your solution now...If he had used his car as battering ram and killed 20 or more would you then be advocating the ban on automobiles, I doubt that, because then it would affect you..and you probably wouldnt like that would you.

Sorry Larry, you’re wrong - banning guns does not lower the crime rate.  It has been demonstrated time and time again, not only with actual collection and studying of empirical data, but also just by common sense observation. 

There simply is no connection between increasing the restrictions on guns and any decrease in crime rate.  Regardless of any spin or rhetoric the Brady Campaign and their ilk try to put on it, that is a plain and simple fact of reality.

Another bad analogy/argument Bart. We can still ban guns to lower the violent crime rate—and also ban cars. Its a win-win situation.

Funny Bob! An aberration for Japan, but the norm for USA. Gxxdxxn America! Obamasame is my savior.

As I stated before and re-enforced by Rev. Hagee and Jeremiah Wright, Pat Robertson, the local Episcopal Confederate Pentecostal Church of Mormon and Jesus Christ, we all know that God causes these things.
You will notice that the knifing happened in Japan. It was God’s way of showing of how to deal with infidels.
True, Japan has a very low crime rate and always has. But they are Buddhist and needed a wake up call. If they repent, no more knifings.
Algeria. It does not take an R. Smith to tell you what religion they are. Muslim. And the French, lapsed Catholics. God has a plan for them and it isn’t pretty.
So forget all that secular stuff. All that psycho babble and just repent and find Jesus. And be sure to come on down to the Episcipol Confederate Mormon Church of Jesus, my church, and be saved.

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