Teacher Shoots Off Pupil’s Gun In Staffroom

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Some searching questions are being asked the teacher who confiscated a pistol he found a student carrying opened fire in the staffroom.

According to police, a middle school boy brought a “pistol like object” in to school to show his friends, which was confiscated by a teacher.

The lure of a toy gun proved to much for the 25-year-old teacher, who ended up loosing off a round in the staff room by accident after hanging on to it for 3 days.

Nobody was injured and 2 days later staff decided it might be appropriate to report the incident to police, who promptly launched an investigation.

The boy for his part claims he thought the gun was a “fake” and confirmed that it belonged to his father, who is now the subject of searching police investigations as to how he came into possession of an apparently highly illegal handgun.

The school refuses to comment on the matter at all, only saying obliquely that “there was an accident involving an explosion but as police are investigating we cannot talk about it.”

Fukuoka prefectural police are already famous for having to warn residents of the dangers of the “rapidly increasing” use of hand-grenades in crimes in the region:

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To say nothing of what has already been recovered from the prefecture’s exceptionally well-armed criminal fraternity:

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The incident raises all too many questions for some:

“Fukuoka…”

“At least it wasn’t one of their grenades he let off.”

“You could almost believe a third of the prefectures really are yakuza like they say.”

“There was that case where they found an RPG in a private residence there recently too… they got off lightly this time.”

“Good job the teacher didn’t mess about and point it at anyone.”

“He was pretty serious about things to confiscate a mere pistol, this is Fukuoka we’re talking about after all.”

“This whole thing is out of a manga, surely.”

“Which state is Fukuoka in?”

“I’m really wondering what line of work this kid’s father is in.”

“You might think that confiscating a pistol from a pupil would lead to it being secured, not touched, and reported to police. But what do the Fukuoka teachers do…”

“How exactly did this teacher ‘accidentally’ fire the weapon? At the end of the day it has a trigger and he pulled it.”

“Wait, this story was about Japan?”


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    Avatar of EndlessGr8
    Comment by EndlessGr8
    08:13 26/11/2013 # ! Neutral (0)

    Wha s the punishment for owning a handgun in japan?
    I've been doing a lot of research on their gun politics and how it's entirely illegal to own one, but how do they handle possession of foreigners or what fines/punishments would a Japanese person get if caught with a gun?

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    Comment by kintama00
    08:26 26/11/2013 # ! Neutral (0)

    from a bit old article:
    "Although there is no mandatory minimum penalty for unlicensed firearm possession, 81 per cent of sentences for illegal firearm or sword possession are imprisonment for a year or more, perhaps because most gun crimes are perpetrated by professional criminals. The maximum penalty is ten years in prison and a one million yen fine."

    Comment by Anonymous
    08:39 26/11/2013 # ! Neutral (+0.2)

    Apparently simply holding a gun warrants a 10 years sentence... And it's separate charge for owning bullets and even firing a gun. Holy crap.

    Comment by Anonymous
    09:34 26/11/2013 # ! Neutral (0)

    Over here you can be found with an arsenal for war and get away with it claiming they are not yours and someone must have "planted them",as long as you have money and/or power that is.

    Comment by Dark Mage
    09:37 26/11/2013 # ! Neutral (-0.2)

    Still wanna move there?

    Comment by Anonymous
    08:41 26/11/2013 # ! Neutral (+0.4)

    If possessor is connected to yakuza, look the other way.

    Else, try to spin it as political ammo against China.

    Comment by Anonymous
    08:45 26/11/2013 # ! Neutral (0)

    how? can you give me an example how "spin it as political ammo against china"?

    Comment by Anonymous
    08:59 26/11/2013 # ! Neutral (0)

    --joke->

    you head

    Comment by Anonymous
    11:25 26/11/2013 # ! Neutral (0)

    steck deine information dort hin wo die sonne nicht scheint missgeburt.

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    Comment by Shiro_Amada
    08:27 26/11/2013 # ! Neutral (0)

    Quite common where I'm from. In a village near my town they found a 122mm WW2 era howitzer hidden under a haystack. Then they searched the residence, found ~50 illegal automatic weapons. Then they searched the rest of the village, finding another 60mm mortar, and astonishing 480 pieces of automatic firearms.

    AND ALL THAT IN EUROPE.

    Comment by Anonymous
    08:34 26/11/2013 # ! Neutral (0)

    Japan is much more gun controlled than any country in Europe... The law there dates back to meiji era, banning both swords and firearms from civilians.

    Comment by Dark Mage
    09:36 26/11/2013 # ! Neutral (0)

    Though it's pretty much impossible to keep them out as they can just ride in with the bootleg Chinese knockoffs and the illegal drugs just like they do in every other country.

    Comment by Anonymous

    All that *because* it's in Europe. You know, the place where there were a lot of overland fighting during the World Wars?

    This is draconian-gun-laws Japan.

    Comment by Anonymous
    09:37 26/11/2013 # ! Neutral (0)

    Guns should be outlawed ANYWHERE in the world and heavy punishment for even owning them.

    Down with fucking Yankies "right" to posses artifacts to murder other humans (or animals in cruel ways).

    Comment by Anonymous
    18:45 26/11/2013 # ! Neutral (0)

    "Guns don't kill people", son. Most of your everyday objects can be lethal if you don't use 'em properly. Owning a gun doesn't make you a murderer.

    Comment by Anonymous
    20:09 26/11/2013 # ! Neutral (+0.2)

    How many of your everyday objects are made for the sole purpose of killing people? And stop calling other people son, it's annoying.

    Comment by Anonymous
    20:39 26/11/2013 # ! Neutral (0)

    The point is that you don't use a toilet brush to clean your teeth, as well as you don't use your pistol to wave around and toy with it, loaded or not.

    As for which items are made for killing things, take a look at your kitchen for instance, I think you'll find quite a few.

    And for common things that kill if mishandled- any power tool, any gardening tool, most regular handheld tools.

    Comment by Anonymous
    21:13 26/11/2013 # ! Neutral (0)

    The most commonly used murder weapon in the US is not a gun, nor even a knife. It's a baseball bat.

    Comment by Anonymous
    22:38 26/11/2013 # ! Neutral (0)

    You can make bombs out of fertilizer, diesel, household cleaners & steel pipes, guess we should stop selling all of those & kitchen knifes too.

    Comment by Anonymous
    23:36 29/11/2013 # ! Neutral (0)

    The person whining about Yankees and gun ownership, (they have posted three comments spouting the same whiney crap) is a fucking idiot.

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    Comment by cpc65
    08:32 26/11/2013 # ! Good (+0.4)

    They're just stocking up for the impending zombie war. If Japan remains unarmed they're totally fucked.

    Comment by Dark Mage
    09:34 26/11/2013 # ! Neutral (0)

    Yep you don't want to risk trying to deal with zombies using a sword.

    Comment by Anonymous
    10:44 26/11/2013 # ! Neutral (0)

    C'mon, who needs ammo when you're swinging around a sword?

    Comment by Anonymous
    11:56 26/11/2013 # ! Neutral (0)

    Swords get blunt. Use a shovel.

    Comment by Anonymous
    13:59 26/11/2013 # ! Neutral (0)

    freeman stick.

    Comment by Anonymous
    04:14 27/11/2013 # ! Neutral (0)

    11:56
    Finally someone with some sense.

    Comment by Anonymous
    16:06 26/11/2013 # ! Neutral (0)

    ammo = money... i need ammo

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    Comment by Benoist
    10:40 26/11/2013 # ! Neutral (0)

    "impending zombie war" ? china is polluted and stuff, but calling its inhabitant zombies...

    Comment by Anonymous
    12:42 27/11/2013 # ! Neutral (0)

    With that much population plus their high-quality goods? Won't really be surprising they ended up unleashing zombiepocalypse unto the world

    Comment by Anonymous
    08:42 26/11/2013 # ! Good (+0.7)

    "Some searching questions are being asked the teacher who confiscated a pistol he found a student carrying opened fire in the staffroom."

    God fuck dude, I sure as shit hope English isn't your first language, cause you suck at it, badly.

    Countdown before this comment is removed by everyone's favorite insecure author. 3, 2, 1...

    Comment by Anonymous
    09:21 26/11/2013 # ! Neutral (0)

    Yea, I noticed too how badly redacted this thing is, I barely understood the story here. The teacher did wast? The pupil what? Make no sense at all.

    Avatar of คภєк๏
    Comment by คภєк๏
    09:35 26/11/2013 # ! Neutral (0)

    Nice try, but it could be fixed with one "of" and one "and".

    Comment by Anonymous

    You can fix it grammatically with a few plug-ins, sure, but that won't fix the poor writing.

    Comment by Anonymous
    12:01 26/11/2013 # ! Neutral (0)

    Ever since those feminist groups started cribbing comments off SanCom for their propaganda he got all paranoid and started deleting even the slightest inappropriate comment. He's very insecure. Even my own main IP got banned at some point even though my comments were harmless questions. So now I can only rely on TOR/VPN connection to post...

    Comment by Anonymous
    21:03 26/11/2013 # ! Neutral (+0.2)

    Damned imaginary feminists!

    Comment by Anonymous
    17:40 30/11/2013 # ! Neutral (0)

    Glad to have you back. Your insight and humor was really missed.

    Avatar of VandalsChiow
    Comment by VandalsChiow
    13:03 26/11/2013 # ! Neutral (0)

    took the words right out of my mouth

    Comment by Anonymous

    Seriously why is all my stuff deleted, while this calls them out and is still here lol

    Comment by Anonymous
    21:02 26/11/2013 # ! Neutral (0)

    Content, possibly?

    Avatar of Tex_Arcana
    Comment by Tex_Arcana
    23:19 26/11/2013 # ! Neutral (0)

    Artefact's idiomatic tone is one of the site's guilty pleasures.

    For my part, I'd hardly call sounding like everyone else mastery of a language.

    Comment by Anonymous

    It's a blog, where the owner posts things he finds interesting.

    Who the fuck cares if the spelling or sentence structure is off at times?

    Avatar of cats2
    Comment by cats2
    08:42 26/11/2013 # ! Quality (+1.0)

    Japan's police later confiscated all the evidence and classified them as toys, giving them back to their yakuza bosses so their kids could play with them.

    Avatar of Kiljoy616
    Comment by Kiljoy616
    14:35 30/11/2013 # ! Good (+0.4)

    Well considering they probably are the only ones that know how to use them.

    Comment by Anonymous
    08:57 26/11/2013 # ! Neutral (0)

    CAR-15? Makarovs? grenades? a L.A.W.?

    was this guy rambo or something?

    Comment by Anonymous
    11:21 26/11/2013 # ! Neutral (0)

    required payment to answer this question:?

    Comment by Anonymous
    15:43 26/11/2013 # ! Neutral (0)

    a gun.

    Comment by Anonymous
    09:01 26/11/2013 # ! Neutral (0)

    So the japs are finally murricanizing themselves.. Took them long enough after the war...

    Comment by Anonymous
    09:13 26/11/2013 # ! Neutral (0)

    You kinda have to wonder. Are guns still banned in Japan because of shit like this, or is shit like this happening in Japan because guns are still banned there?

    Comment by Anonymous
    09:38 26/11/2013 # ! Neutral (0)

    I have a sneaking suspicion that if they lighten the laws enough to allow possession, there would be an influx of firearm-assisted suicides.

    Comment by Anonymous
    09:52 26/11/2013 # ! Neutral (+0.2)

    "Shit like this"

    Referring to a gun being mistakenly fired and found to be real rather than a toy, with no one injured. Really? This made it straight onto national news. Even without a death, it's so rare that it shocks the Japanese. Take note of the surprised comments.
    “Wait, this story was about Japan?”

    Can you imagine a gun being fired in private and resulting in no injuries ever getting onto national news in the USA? The country that averages 87 gun deaths a day hasn't got time to care about stuff like this.

    I suppose if Japan had followed the USA's fine example, this tragic incident of some floor boards being shot could have been prevented by another student shooting the teacher first, huh?

    Comment by Anonymous
    10:14 26/11/2013 # ! Neutral (0)

    It's banned there because they would like to hold the record for lowest homicide rates. Unlike Murica, where they would like to keep that number nice and high.

    Comment by Anonymous
    10:19 26/11/2013 # ! Neutral (0)

    I like how you evade the suicide rate discussion.

    Comment by Anonymous
    20:10 26/11/2013 # ! Neutral (0)

    i like how you evaded 2340234808490 times the payment discussion

    Comment by Anonymous
    11:03 26/11/2013 # ! Neutral (0)

    >not supplying guns to ignorant niggers, wetbacks, whitetrash, etc

    clearly you don't know how to reduce welfare spending & improve our global footprint

    Comment by Anonymous
    20:02 26/11/2013 # ! Neutral (0)

    even if he knew it ... the welfare spenders are hugging the income

    Comment by Anonymous
    16:00 26/11/2013 # ! Neutral (0)

    I do believe Africa holds that title

    Comment by Anonymous
    21:10 26/11/2013 # ! Neutral (0)

    Statistically, there is less crime where guns are legal, because criminals frown on having their asses blown off.

    Comment by Anonymous
    10:21 26/11/2013 # ! Neutral (0)

    They're strictly regulated, with civilians. So much that you have to have a full record of every round fired. As they actually audit you annually to verify full accountability.





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