Crime experts say instructions on how to make guns are floating around on the internet, and guns can be made with a 3D printer. What are your thoughts on this?

You do realize that terror and armed groups also distribute these kind of literature through the internet for years, right? It doesn't end with guns, you can literally be trained to fight in a warzone if you get your hands on one of these materials. In my opinion, they are both a threat and a blessing. A threat for security forces because the average citizen can learn these things without having the need to join the uniformed services, and secessionist forces can use them for not so good purposes. The silver lining in this is the average citizen can know these survival skills in the event of a war. I'm pretty sure that the people in Ukraine are circulating these kind of stuff among them. I know that this opinion will get a lot of flak, especially from the pacified, but that's why each country has a security force.

Even in Japan it may be easier to buy or steal a gun than to make one that actually works. You are more likely to blow yourself up trying to make anything explosive, from a firework up. Abe's assassin beat the odds all the way down the line. Most people would have blown some part of their anatomy off with prototypes. People made guns (or tried to) long before the internet - the basics are fairly obvious. The overwhelming majority of gun crime uses manufactured weaponry. Only a minuscule percentage uses homemade weapons. These get a disproportionate amount of media coverage, especially if they use a 3D printer, most of which are unlikely to be up to the task.

If you want to engage in moral panic, worry about the amount of knife crime in Japan. Or the child abuse. Or the suicide rate. Concentrate on the more prevalent problems, not the exotic or headline ones. And stop trying to blame the internet for absolutely everything.

Couldn't care less. Too busy minding my own business and supporting my family.

Crime experts say instructions on how to make guns are floating around on the internet, and guns can be made with a 3D printer. What are your thoughts on this?

Big knives are readily available anywhere

duh

Almost everything has a dual use, can be used for good or bad things. The internet itself, 3D printing and also the guns are no exception here. It’s in fact only the sick mindset of those people, not the availability of internet information on guns or producing guns.

Crime expert ????? When growing up I was given a book that gave instruction on how to build things young boy enjoyed, Like crossbows, arrows, canoes, sailing boats, guns etc.

The internet is also full of stories and pictures of people who have made or tried to make homemade guns and bombs with missing fingers, hands and eyes.

Guns don't kill people. People kill people. Sadly, in Japan, I fear the whackos would find other means of killing someone if they can't make a gun. Think about how many random stabbings happen in Japan.

Instead of looking for this garbage on line. Make a different choice by learning how to internalize your anger and find an outlet through meditation, exercise, and do things that strengthen the mind and change your thinking process.