http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world...-attack-in-japan/ar-BBuQVrO?ocid=ansmsnnews11 Trucks, Guns, Knives, Bombs. Let's get rid of the silly notion it's an inanimate object!
I see a ban coming, knives will only be allowed to have 10 blades, they won't be able to have any kind of suppressor, they will not be allowed to be black, purchasers will have to go through a background check to purchase one...well you get the point, eh?
"Kyodo said the man had turned himself into a police station." Now that is a neat trick I would like to learn !!
Just so you know, I come from a Multilingual family that spans many European Countries, so I know something of Idioms.
*********************************************************************************** Cesare Beccaria Much of what Cesare Beccaria wrote in "On Crimes and Punishments" in 1764 still holds true today. "False is the idea of utility that sacrifices a thousand real advantages for one imaginary or trifling inconvenience; that would take fire from men because it burns, and water because one may drown in it; that has no remedy for evils, except destruction. The laws that forbid the carrying of arms are laws of such a nature. They disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes. Can it be supposed that those who have the courage to violate the most sacred laws of humanity, the most important of the code, will respect the less important and arbitrary ones, which can be violated with ease and impunity, and which, if strictly obeyed, would put an end to personal liberty--so dear to men, so dear to the enlightened legislator--and subject innocent persons to all the vexations that the guilty alone ought to suffer? Such laws make things worse for the assaulted and better for the assailants; they serve to rather to encourage than to prevent homicides, for an unarmed man may be attacked with greater confidence than an armed man. They ought to be designated as laws not preventative but fearful of crimes, produced by the tumultuous impression of a few isolated facts, and not by thoughtful consideration of the inconveniences and advantages of a universal decree. "
Cultural translation rather than lingual translation. The culture of the nation of Japan not tolerating violence or shameful behavior being committed against the public is not something achievable in the united states.
Yet Japan is rife with Sexual Predators and shameful conduct against minors to the point of causing some young people to commit suicide, rather than face continual Sexual abuse. So no, Japan is in no way superior to the U.S. in any way shape or form. The U.S. would never tolerate such shameful behavior.
You may find this of interest. http://www.thefederalistpapers.org/.../Cesare-Beccaria-On-Crimes-and-Punishment.pdf
