Don’t ever get in trouble over there. I copied and pasted parts of a story, describing guns are 99% not legal, and what the few gun owners have to go thru. The story implies all countries would be better without guns. But the bad guys always find a way.

https://getpocket.com/explore/item/how-japan-has-almost-eradicated-gun-crime?utm_source=pocket-newtab

Parts:

If you want to buy a gun in Japan you need patience and determination. You have to attend an all-day class, take a written exam and pass a shooting-range test with a mark of at least 95 percent.

There are also mental health and drugs tests. Your criminal record is checked and police look for links to extremist groups. Then they check your relatives too – and even your work colleagues. And as well as having the power to deny gun licences, police also have sweeping powers to search and seize weapons.

That’s not all. Handguns are banned outright. Only shotguns and air rifles are allowed.

The law restricts the number of gun shops. In most of Japan’s 40 or so prefectures there can be no more than three, and you can only buy fresh cartridges by returning the spent cartridges you bought on your last visit.

Police must be notified where the gun and the ammunition are stored – and they must be stored separately under lock and key. Police will also inspect guns once a year. And after three years your license runs out, at which point you have to attend the course and pass the tests again.

This helps explain why mass shootings in Japan are extremely rare. When mass killings occur, the killer most often wields a knife.

“They are the first nation to impose gun laws in the whole world and I think it laid down a bedrock saying that guns really don’t play a part in civilian society.”

To underline the taboo attached to inappropriate use of weapons, an officer who used his gun to kill himself was charged posthumously with a criminal offence. He carried out the act while on duty – policemen never carry weapons off-duty, leaving them at the station when they finish their shift.

According to Iain Overton, the “almost taboo level of rejection” of guns in Japan means that the country is “edging towards a perfect place”

“The criminals pack the guns inside of a tuna so it looks like a frozen tuna,” says retired police officer Tahei Ogawa. “But we have discovered cases where they have actually hidden a gun inside.”

Ross Norman, meanwhile, has proved the LBMA’s (London Bullion Market Association) number one forecaster over the last 22 years, proving even more reliable than the 144DMA. He pinged me an email with his forecasts for the gold and silver price in 2020. “2019 was the year we learned that central banks are locked into QE-forever,” he said.  He has a point. The Fed’s recent actions coming to the rescue of the ‘repo’ market, which had ground to a halt back in September, and lending money directly, was QE (quantitative easing) by a different name.

Ross continued: “With global debt-to-GDP ratios hitting a record 322% and with equities massively overvalued… it just depends upon when and not if the proverbial hits the fan. Financial markets are trapped and we expect gold to respond by hitting an all time high in the second half of 2020.”

Ross forecasts an average price of $1,755, a high of $2,080 and lows at $1,520. The LBMA’s number one gold forecaster being as bullish as that will be music to the ears of gold bugs.

Silver, meanwhile, was up 15% last year. Ross sees something similar in 2020 with an average price of $19.25, a high of $23.00 and lows around $17.50. Plenty to ponder then. Currently gold sits at $1,560, while silver is at $18. 

I don’t think I’m quite as bullish as Ross or Jim. But I like the cut of their jib. I’m long gold, I’m long silver, and the trend is up.

Enjoy 2020!

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/gabbard-hits-clinton-with-50-million-defamation-lawsuit-over-russian-asset-remarks?fbclid=IwAR1y5j6E6CvgOLGfemBgVzbbRw_Ov7F4NhZ4l41bPteDsXQ7irRrc9hIJS4

Not everyone in Japan is Japanese anymore. A lot of S Koreans going their for jobs. They’re having less kids slowing their population so a lot of lower level start up jobs are vacant.
They reward law abiding there.
It looks like high profile not wanting to look bad thing going on.
You don’t think we have corruption here? Look what their doing to Trump. The average person doesn’t have the resources or backing to fight that kind of corruption even if it’s a obvious sham. Show their side even with no evidence just speculation not the defense. The people know it too. Democrats showing their corrupt colors for all to see. It’s pathetic that weak accusations they would even get away with it. They’re lousy at it but doesn’t matter when it’s a partisan hack job.

EV Blog Admits: Tesla’s “Autopilot Will Probably Not Stop For Service Vehicles Parked In Lanes Of Traffic”

https://www.zerohedge.com/technology/ev-blog-admits-teslas-autopilot-will-probably-not-stop-service-vehicles-parked-lanes

https://wallstreetonparade.com/2020/01/bernie-sanders-hasnt-quite-captured-what-wall-street-does-its-actually-a-fraud-monetization-system-with-a-money-printing-unit-called-the-new-york-fed/

…is ~ 3450 SPX.

Wouldn’t doubt for a minute it can get there with all the money they are throwing at this thing.

Don’t know how they cut the junky off ever now.

The money printers are trapped.

It will get very ugly at some point.

Cheers

Option talk is way beyond my vocabulary, they have turned it into a foreign language….which as far as I can see is just camouflage/bullshit for a rigged mkt, where on expiration they just use brute force, to ram the basis to the mid point of largest OI strike .

No one said anything about you being “un-American.”

I see you deleted the main part of the post yourself. You didn’t need to do that. It’s free speech you know.

“Buying Momentum Has Fizzled Out”: CTAs Are Now All-In

estimates of major hedge funds’ exposure to DM equities (30-day beta) show that more hedge funds are exiting longs now than was the case at the end of December. Of course, long/short funds and other fundamentals-based, value-oriented investors following bottom-up strategies are feeling out dips to buy. Prior to this, however, global macro hedge funds, managed futures funds, and other such top-down investors had already started moving last week to tentatively unwind long positions, partly in response to the apparent depletion of market-positive news.

So for those asking where is the next level (of gamma gravity), McElligott answers that “well outside of the meaningful aggregate $Gamma “in and around” here ($6.0B at 3300 strike, another $17B btwn 3310 and 3330)”, the “new” largest line is the +$6.3B at the 3350 strike” as dealers remain “very long” which in turn helps insulate the market from shocks while allowing the relentless creep higher in risk prices to continue unabated.

It also means that if and when the selling returns and the S&P breaks below 3,300, it’s going to be a long way down.

https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/green-economy-new-black-davos-2020

Does that post make me appear anti American?? Geez. Delete it for me.

Mr. Copper … Have you become a gun control advocate?

Answer:

Everybody in Japan is Japanese. 🙂 And the country is like a dictatorship. No human rights. Did you hear about the Nissan CEO? No bail, and they told him they will be hard on him until he confesses. No prompt trial either. He was there 400 days in jail, until he probably got “escaped” with a big bribe. Or pay off. Why is the USA doing business with that country? And communist China? And communist Russia? During Vietnam, we were told we needed to stop the spread of communism. My shoes were made in Vietnam. Figure that out.

https://www.rt.com/news/478911-masks-sars-china-virus/

but I get the sense that these shares don’t want to die…