Dozens Killed In Japanese Arson Fire, Proving Guns Don’t Cause Mass Murder

By Tom Knighton

“Mass murders just don’t happen in other countries,” they started saying, then Christchurch happened. At that point, the tune changed to them claiming that mass murders are just a whole lot more common in the United States. The reason, they claim, is our lax gun laws. After all, it’s far easier to get a gun in California, New York, or New Jersey than it is to get one in Paris or London. Anti-gun activists claim that’s why mass killings are so much more common here.

However, I’ve long argued that guns aren’t required for mass murderers to commit their atrocities. For example, a 25-year old man in Toronto killed ten people with a van.

Unfortunately, it seems no one counted that act. I wonder if they’ll count this one, then.

A man screaming “You die!” burst into an animation studio in Kyoto, doused it with a flammable liquid and set it on fire Thursday, killing 33 people in an attack that shocked the country and brought an outpouring of grief from anime fans.

Thirty-six others were injured, some of them critically, in a blaze that sent people scrambling up the stairs toward the roof in a desperate — …Read the Rest

Source:: Bearing Arms