Mike Cash
骨も命も皆此の土地に埋めよう
- 15 Mar 2002
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From your sarcasm in the "Students' parents should be warned that households have kitchen knives and rope?" sentence I wasn't clear whether you thought there was a point to warning parents or not, I wanted to make sure of what you meant.
It wasn't sarcasm.
My post with the pdf link apparently went unread or unnoticed by everyone. It listed something like seventeen different categories of methods of killing used by Japanese families in murder-suicides (one of which was firearms). No sane person would suggest that potential Japanese host families should disclose up front whether they contain knives, blunt objects, ropes, automobiles, bathtubs, gas lines, baseball bats, or are near places they might be pushed from a height or in front of a train thinking that the information will give them any indication whatsoever how likely they are to be murdered.
My point was that there is no way on earth to possibly warn anyone anywhere of all the possible items in a home which might be used to kill them. The only universal common element in all intentional killings throughout the entire history of mankind is the presence of a person with the intent to kill another person.
If a person wants to know of the presence of any object whatsoever, be it a bazooka or a peanut, which would cause them not to want to stay in a particular home, then I'm 100% in favor of them having that information beforehand. But in the case of guns in the home the decision can only be one based on personal principles regarding guns and not on any reliable and objective correlation with the chances of the student getting shot. As noted in the article on Hattori-kun, he isn't the only Japanese student who has gone to America and gotten shot. Come to think of it....I can't think of any case where the student who got shot was shot by a gun in the home where they were staying. The only 100% guaranteed way to protect one's self from getting shot in America is just not to go to America.