"Nagasaki Mayor Itcho Ito, who was seeking re-election, died early Wednesday after being shot by a gangster in front of his campaign office, police said."
http://mdn.mainichi-msn.co.jp/national/news/20070418p2a00m0na002000c.html
Maybe it's something in their water. Japan has a homicide rate 2.3 times higher than that of Japanese-Americans, according to Gary Kleck in _Point Blank_.
On 4/17/07, Bill Bartlett <billbartlett at aapt.net.au> wrote:
> It happened here in Australia. Self-loading shotguns and rifles (even
> down to pump-action shotguns and .22 calibre semi-auto rabbit
> rifles) were banned. A lot of people had them, but they were banned
> and the existing ones were destroyed. Not 100% of them of course, but
> I would say 99.95% of them were collected and destroyed. It can be
> done. You are simply wrong about it being impossible.