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A government project team completed Monday a package of proposals to tighten firearms restrictions in the wake of the April assassination of Nagasaki Mayor Itcho Ito and the gunning down of a riot police officer in Aichi Prefecture in May.
The measures include stiffening the penalties under the gun control law and boosting surveillance and other efforts against weapons smuggling. To put them into effect, the government hopes to submit a bill to the Diet in the fall and seek funding for fiscal 2008.
"The spate of crimes involving the use of firearms this year is posing a serious threat to the lives of the people. To eradicate such crimes, comprehensive measures against crime syndicates should be strengthened," the team's report says.
The report calls for legislation to conclude the firearms protocol supplementing the U.N. Convention against Transnational Organized Crime, strengthening the provision of equipment and instruments for detecting smuggled firearms, and improving the night-watch capabilities of patrol ships and aircraft.
Another possible measure would be creating a reward system to gather information.
There are also plans to support civil lawsuits against underworld syndicates and strengthen collaboration with law enforcement authorities of other countries.
The government plans to set up a maritime antismuggling center in Yokohama and an offense-inquest center in Tokyo in July.
Composed of officials from the National Police Agency and other government bodies, the project team was set up after a former gangster shot dead a 23-year-old riot police officer and wounded three other people May 18 in Nagakute, Aichi Prefecture.
On April 17, a gangster shot and killed Nagasaki Mayor Ito while he was campaigning for re-election.
So even in communist Japan, where there's no Second Amendment, no law allowing you to own a gun, and no rights to privacy or protection against double jeapordy and search and seizure, they've still got crime problems.
Seems that no matter how tight you make the laws, somebody will always find a way to break them and do what they're not supposed to do.
A government project team completed Monday a package of proposals to tighten firearms restrictions in the wake of the April assassination of Nagasaki Mayor Itcho Ito and the gunning down of a riot police officer in Aichi Prefecture in May.
The measures include stiffening the penalties under the gun control law and boosting surveillance and other efforts against weapons smuggling. To put them into effect, the government hopes to submit a bill to the Diet in the fall and seek funding for fiscal 2008.
"The spate of crimes involving the use of firearms this year is posing a serious threat to the lives of the people. To eradicate such crimes, comprehensive measures against crime syndicates should be strengthened," the team's report says.
The report calls for legislation to conclude the firearms protocol supplementing the U.N. Convention against Transnational Organized Crime, strengthening the provision of equipment and instruments for detecting smuggled firearms, and improving the night-watch capabilities of patrol ships and aircraft.
Another possible measure would be creating a reward system to gather information.
There are also plans to support civil lawsuits against underworld syndicates and strengthen collaboration with law enforcement authorities of other countries.
The government plans to set up a maritime antismuggling center in Yokohama and an offense-inquest center in Tokyo in July.
Composed of officials from the National Police Agency and other government bodies, the project team was set up after a former gangster shot dead a 23-year-old riot police officer and wounded three other people May 18 in Nagakute, Aichi Prefecture.
On April 17, a gangster shot and killed Nagasaki Mayor Ito while he was campaigning for re-election.
So even in communist Japan, where there's no Second Amendment, no law allowing you to own a gun, and no rights to privacy or protection against double jeapordy and search and seizure, they've still got crime problems.
Seems that no matter how tight you make the laws, somebody will always find a way to break them and do what they're not supposed to do.
"the fundamental principle that a government and its agents are under no general duty to provide public services, such as police protection, to any particular individual citizen." Warren vs. The District of Columbia.
