I believe I covered this story back in my livejournal days. Good to see Japan isn’t 100% at a standstill with the recent natural disaster that has befallen that nation.
Tomohiro Kato, who killed seven people in a bloody stabbing spree in Tokyo’s neon-lit Akihabara electronics district almost three years ago, was sentenced to death on Thursday…”The defendant used a knife to attack those who just happened to be there and took the lives of many people who were completely innocent,” said presiding judge Hiroaki Murayama, according to broadcaster NHK and news agencies.
In Japan guns are essentially banned (which is shit luck if you happen to live in a Tsunami wasteland where the only semblance of law and order is enforced not by the police, but the Yakuza), those who speak about “Gun Death” might be honest enough to admit that banning of guns won’t stop murder, but still some are audacious enough to say it’ll end MASS MURDER. Nope.
And even banning knives won’t stop that. Let’s ban criminals, and allow people to protect themselves!
“sentenced to death”?
Don’t people opposed to the death penalty often state that the US is the only civilized country that executes people?
(CAPTCHA code: AE35. Open the pod bay doors, Hal.)
I’ve never met one that didn’t think facts and reality weren’t subjective things that could be ignored.
The people who say that have seen some hentai anime way out of the far end of the bell-curve? (I kid)