{"id":2363,"date":"2013-04-16T11:13:00","date_gmt":"2013-04-16T11:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/2013\/04\/16\/john-kerry-gun-violence-keeps-japanese\/"},"modified":"2019-08-16T18:21:38","modified_gmt":"2019-08-16T18:21:38","slug":"john-kerry-gun-violence-keeps-japanese","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/?p=2363","title":{"rendered":"John Kerry &#8211; &#8220;Gun Violence&#8221; Keeps Japanese Students Away"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:13733,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.politico.com\\\/story\\\/2013\\\/04\\\/john-kerry-guns-scare-foreigners-90067.html&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:13734,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.nytimes.com\\\/learning\\\/general\\\/onthisday\\\/big\\\/0320.html&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.nytimes.com\\\/learning\\\/general\\\/onthisday\\\/big\\\/0320.html&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:13735,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/en.wikipedia.org\\\/wiki\\\/Osaka_school_massacre&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20260314123557\\\/https:\\\/\\\/en.wikipedia.org\\\/wiki\\\/Osaka_school_massacre&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-19 21:25:36&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-19 21:25:36&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:13736,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/en.wikipedia.org\\\/wiki\\\/Akihabara_massacre&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/en.wikipedia.org\\\/wiki\\\/Akihabara_massacre&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:13737,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.globalpost.com\\\/dispatch\\\/news\\\/afp\\\/130314\\\/at-least-2-dead-japan-knife-attack-0&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20130521213447\\\/http:\\\/\\\/www.globalpost.com:80\\\/dispatch\\\/news\\\/afp\\\/130314\\\/at-least-2-dead-japan-knife-attack-0&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-19 21:26:06&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-19 21:26:06&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:13738,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.washingtonpost.com\\\/blogs\\\/fact-checker\\\/post\\\/john-kerrys-claim-that-foreign-students-are-scared-of-us-gun-violence\\\/2013\\\/04\\\/16\\\/3dd7879a-a620-11e2-8302-3c7e0ea97057_blog.html&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/story\/2013\/04\/john-kerry-guns-scare-foreigners-90067.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">From the vaguely French looking Secretary of State<\/a> who, by the way, served in Vietnam:<\/p>\n<p>Secretary of State John Kerry thinks Japanese students don&#8217;t come to the United States to study because of &#8220;gun violence&#8221;. He goes on to say:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"tr_bq\"><p>\n<i>Kerry cited Japan\u2019s tough gun laws preventing almost all private<br \/>\nfirearms ownership and said the country was safer \u201cwhere people are not<br \/>\nrunning around with guns.\u201d<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Of course I&#8217;m sure Japan also has laws about the possession of chemical weapons like Sarin but t<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/learning\/general\/onthisday\/big\/0320.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">hat didn&#8217;t stop the gas attacks on the Tokyo subway<\/a>. Just like they have laws that make it illegal to kill <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Osaka_school_massacre\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">schoolchildren<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Akihabara_massacre\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">innocent bystanders<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.globalpost.com\/dispatch\/news\/afp\/130314\/at-least-2-dead-japan-knife-attack-0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">coworkers<\/a> with a knife.<\/p>\n<p><b>UPDATE:<\/b> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/blogs\/fact-checker\/post\/john-kerrys-claim-that-foreign-students-are-scared-of-us-gun-violence\/2013\/04\/16\/3dd7879a-a620-11e2-8302-3c7e0ea97057_blog.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Washington Post evaluated Kerry&#8217;s claim and gave it a 3 Pinocchio&#8217;s out of a possible 4<\/a>.&nbsp; The number of Japanese exchange students has been declining for the last 15 years&#8230;.as has their economy.<\/p>\n<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the vaguely French looking Secretary of State who, by the way, served in Vietnam: Secretary of State John&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":1,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[561,2878,403],"class_list":["post-2363","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-japan","tag-john-kerry","tag-stupidity"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2363","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2363"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2363\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9059,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2363\/revisions\/9059"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}