On: How Japan has almost eradicated gun crime

[emusan]

That's a pretty serious abuse of correlation...

[TheSpiceIsLife → emusan]

But, you must admit that context of the post replied to it was very well put.

Formula:

1. Outrageously bold claim

2. Obviously ridiculous and nonsense claim of correlation

3. Things are rarely as simple as some few-word slogan.

[IslaDeEncanta → TheSpiceIsLife]

I don't think it's outrageous to say that a few people with weapons can command many people without weapons.

[TheSpiceIsLife → IslaDeEncanta]

I don't, personally, recall the last US election that was settle by a shoot-out.

It seems most modern democracies get by fine without civil wars.

Or: what, exactly, are you suggesting.

[IslaDeEncanta → TheSpiceIsLife]

I'm suggesting that a fascist dictatorship is harder to establish in a place where everybody is armed.