Sound Familiar?
Due to strict firearms laws, few Japanese possess them. However, the lack of guns hasn’t prevented either murder or mayhem; it’s just changed the weapons of choice. Tomohiro Kato recently ran down a crowd of shoppers with a two-ton rented truck, and then began stabbing the victims and people in the crowd of onlookers, leaving seven dead and ten injured. The government’s reaction: a proposal for more regulation of large knives and more security in public places. More truck regulation might help, too.