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Originally Posted by Yahoshua

One point I'd also like to make is that gun laws don't stop criminals from acquiring firearms:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070417/wl_asia_afp/japancrimepolitics;_ylt=AqUGKH8zGCpx6PSpfmX7f8MBxg 8F

Very true, but there are certainly fewer gun murders in Japan.
Let's see what the gap was in 2000
http://everything2.com/index.pl?node_id=726110

I'm not bothered looking up more