[Yellowfin]

The UK does NOT have lower crime rates than here. They finagle the reporting of it to hide it just like how college campuses do so here to spare themselves of being embarassed and their failed policies and ineptitude brought to light. It is indeed true, though, that the Japanese culture is much more homogenous, disciplined, and family oriented compared to here across the spectrum. As Sean Connery said in Rising Sun "We may come from a fragmented MTV rock and roll culture, but they do not."

Something I often mention but it further bears repeating here again: using the crime rates for the US as a total for comparison of firearm freedom to no firearm freedom isn't totally valid because there are places in the US where it's very bad yet none of the freedom. Thus they should be removed from the equation. The question so often being asked is whether LEGAL gun ownership CAUSES CRIME. To accurately answer that question you have to take out the anti gun places' murder figures from the total of the US and the crimes from ineligible people possessing firearms. Removing those two factors makes the crime rates darn near nothing.