Neat News 373 (added 2017-01-07)

Japan has Low Number of Gun Deaths

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Japan has tight gun laws which makes it difficult to get a license for a firearm and also the usage of the ammunition is tightly controlled. In consequence it ranks very low in the number of firearms per 100 people, 0.6 compared to 88 for the USA. Likewise Japan had in 2014 only 6 gun deaths compared with over 33,000 in the USA.

News seen at: BBC - Magazine