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From: boucher@csl.sri.com (Peter K. Boucher)
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Subject: Analysis "prooves" gun control failure in Japan
Date: 22 Jul 1993 14:27:19 -0500
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``One way one might crudely and partially control for United 
  States-Japan cultural differences is to compare homicide rates among 
  Japanese-Americans, who live where guns are plentiful, with the homicide 
  rates of their presumably culturally similar brethren in Japan, where 
  private gun ownership is nearly nonexistent. Certainly this pair of 
  populations is more comparable than the population of Japan compared 
  with the entire U.S. population. Up through 1979, the FBI reported 
  homicide arrests sorted by racial breakdowns which included "Japanese." 
  For the period 1976-1978, 21 of 48,695 arrests for murder and 
  nonnegligent manslaughter were of Japanese-Americans, or 0.04% (U.S. FBI 
  1977-1979). Applying this fraction to the total of 57,460 homicides 
  yields an estimate of 24.78 killings by Japanese-Americans for 1976-
  1978, or about 8.26 per year. With 791,000 persons of Japanese ancestry 
  in the United States in 1980 (U.S. Bureau of the Census 1984), this 
  translates into an annual rate of 1.04 homicides per 100,000 population. 
  For the same 1976-1978 period, the annual homicide rate in Japan 
  averaged 2.45 (United Nations 1982, pp. 192, 718). Thus, crudely 
  controlling for Japanese culture in this way indicates that in Japan, 
  where civilian gun ownership is virtually nonexistent and gun control 
  laws are extremely strict, the homicide rate is 2.3 times as high as it 
  is among Japanese-Americans living where guns are easily available and 
  gun laws are far less restrictive.''

From _Point_Blank:_Guns_and_Violence_in_America_, by Gary Kleck.

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Peter K. Boucher
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