Pretty much agreement but...

----- Original Message -----
From: "allyn yonge" <ayonge@yahoo.com>
To: "C. Jones" <guilty@furinkan.net>; <ffml@anifics.com>
Sent: Thursday, August 23, 2001 2:17 PM
Subject: [FFML] Re: [Ranma] newRanma Chapter 11

As always a masterful piece of story telling. A great
read.

One _tiny_ nit to pick.
There are more guns in Japan than most people realize,
but they are primarily a "knife" culture. Much more
likely to use a blade . . .knife, sword, cross-bow
than a gun, and more likely to have a long-gun than a
pistol. NOT impossible, but for what you are doing...
seems to be a rather middle-class man in a fit of
anger I'd go with a blade. Just change sound of shot
to a scream and the rest can stay as is.

Definitely.  Check out the news in Japan?  A guy went crazy in front of
Tokyu Hands in Ikebukuro with a hammer and a knife.. killed 8 people.  A
teenaged kid went nuts in Shibuya station with a baseball bat and killed
like 4 or so people.  The one time I heard of a gun being used it was a
rifle (hunting) and it was a divorced husband abducting his daughter from
his wife.

A middle-class person would not own a pistol.  Few would even own a hunting
rifle...though you can do that legally with a license (gf's father has one).

HOWEVER, it's not impossible for the man to have a
pistol. OTOH, a knife or sword is even more likely to
do the kind of damage you're describing, especially if
the Bad Guy does (as usually happens) multiple
strikes.

I'm not 100% sure, but unless you're police, JSDF, Yakuza or have gotten it
illegally (probably from the Yakuza)... you'd never have a handgun in Japan.

If you wanted DARK, you would have used the recent
case in Japan of a 14 year old boy cutting off an 11
year old friends head and playing with it  before
leaving it on the street with a note attached,
taunting the police. Now THAT'S dark.
http://www.theage.com.au/special/asiaonline/japan/rs050797.htm

I dunno if I'd call it dark as rather disturbing.

J
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