Australia's lower house of parliament passed new laws for a gun buyback, tighter background checks and a crackdown on hate crimes, in response to its worst mass shooting in decades. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/01/20/asia-pacific/politics/australia-gun-laws-hate-crimes-bondi/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #asiapacific #politics #australia #guns #hatecrimes #massshootings
The Nara District Court is set to rule on Tetsuya Yamagami, the man standing trial for the assassination of former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, bringing the high-profile case to an end. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/01/20/japan/crime-legal/japan-yamagami-trial-ruling-preview/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #crimelegal #tetsuyayamagami #shinzoabe #japanesecourts #nara #guns
The number of firearms in Australia reached an all-time high of more than 4 million in 2025. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/01/18/asia-pacific/crime-legal/australian-firearms-hit-a-record-high/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #asiapacific #crimelegal #bondibeach #australia #guns #firearms
A U.S. immigration agent shot and wounded a man and a woman in Portland, Oregon, authorities said on Thursday, leading local officials to call for calm given outrage over the ICE shooting death of a woman a day earlier. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/01/09/world/portland-shooting-border-agent/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #oregon #guns #portland #us #donaldtrump #immigration
The investigation into the killing of an American citizen by a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent in Minneapolis this week is being complicated by clashes between federal and local officials. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/01/09/world/minnesota-shooting-tensions/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #us #minnesota #guns #immigration #donaldtrump
A U.S. immigration agent shot dead a 37-year-old woman in her car in Minneapolis on Wednesday amid an immigration enforcement surge, the latest violent incident in President Donald Trump's nationwide migrant crackdown. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/01/08/world/crime-legal/us-minneapolis-woman-shot/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #crimelegal #us #immigration #minnesota #guns
Liberals want to ban many guns, but leftists want to ban fascism. Which one is more likely to actually solve the problem of violence?
A father and son accused of a mass shooting at Australia’s Bondi Beach “acted alone” and were not part of a wider terrorist cell, police have said. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/12/30/asia-pacific/crime-legal/bondi-beach-shooting-act-alone/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #asiapacific #crimelegal #australia #terrorism #massshootings #guns
Families of Bondi Beach shooting victims have urged Australia’s prime minister to launch a royal commission — an independent public inquiry — into the “rapid rise of antisemitism” in the country. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/12/29/world/crime-legal/bondi-families-antisemitism-probe/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #crimelegal #australia #bondibeach #massshootings #massmurder #guns #anthonyalbanese
The Australian state of New South Wales — where the Bondi Beach shooting took place — is introducing what it calls the “toughest firearm reforms in the country.” https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/12/22/asia-pacific/crime-legal/australian-state-gun-laws/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #asiapacific #crimelegal #australia #guns #massshootings #massmurder #bondibeach #anthonyalbanese #gunlaws
Australia's gun laws are riddled with loopholes and workarounds, experts say. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/12/17/asia-pacific/crime-legal/australia-gun-laws-loopholes/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #asiapacific #crimelegal #australia #guns #massshootings
A deadly shooting at a Hanukkah celebration at Sydney’s Bondi Beach shattered a symbol of safety and coexistence, highlighting Australia’s rising antisemitism and broader social polarization. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/commentary/2025/12/17/world/bondi-attack-sweeps-australia-into-violent-world/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #commentary #worldnews #australia #terrorism #shootings #sydney #guns
A father and son were driven by "Islamic State ideology" when they fired on Bondi Beach in one of Australia's deadliest mass shootings, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said on Tuesday. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/12/16/asia-pacific/bondi-shooting-islamic-state/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #asiapacific #australia #guns #massshootings
Australia will consider toughening gun laws after a father and his son killed 15 people in the nation’s deadliest terror attack. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/12/15/asia-pacific/crime-legal/australia-shooting-gun-laws/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #asiapacific #crimelegal #australia #shootings #terrorism #guns #anthonyalbanese
A man has been taken into custody at a Rhode Island hotel and held as a “person of interest” in the Brown University shooting that left two students dead and nine wounded, authorities said. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/12/15/world/crime-legal/brown-university-shooting-detain/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #crimelegal #us #rhodeisland #massshootings #schoolshootings #universities #guns #brownuniversity
Only "5% of mass shootings are motivated primarily by #mentalIllness". Of course, "the lifetime prevalence of any psychiatric disorder among adults in [the U.S.] right now is about 40 to 45%, so a lot of people who perpetrate mass murder will have some sort of diagnos[is]."
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A gunman killed two people and wounded nine others on Saturday at Brown University, plunging the eastern U.S. campus into lockdown as hundreds of police hunted the suspect. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/12/14/world/crime-legal/gunman-kills-two-at-brown-university/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #crimelegal #brownuniversity #murder #crime #massmurder #massshootings #guns
A ranking gang member has pleaded not guilty to the charge of fatally shooting the head of the Gyoza no Osho restaurant chain in Kyoto in 2013. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/11/26/japan/crime-legal/yakuza-shooting-plea/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #crimelegal #yakuza #guns
The mother of Tetsuya Yamagami, on trial in connection with the 2022 killing of former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, told a court she wants to keep her faith in the Unification Church, a controversial religious group. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/11/19/japan/crime-legal/yamagami-trial-mother/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #crimelegal #japanesecourts #shinzoabe #tetsuyayamagami #shinzoabeassassination #guns