In Japan, even the gun enthusiasts are in favor of gun control
In Japan, even the gun enthusiasts are in favor of gun control
By Anna Fifield June 28 at 3:30 AM
ISEHARA, Japan — Chiaki Sakurai heard a story from his shooting buddies about an American school in Japan.
“I heard that there’s an American school here that has a sign out front saying ‘No guns,’ ” he said incredulously one day this week during a break from target practice at a shooting range. “The school has a sign, even though it’s in Japan!”
It’s not the prohibition that shocked Sakurai, a 56-year-old who has been shooting competitively for three decades, but the idea that such a sign would ever be needed. Why would anyone be carrying a gun at all, let alone into a school?
The story about the sign might be an urban legend, but Sakurai’s astonishment was totally unfeigned.
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