http://business.time.com/2013/03/07/the-disturbingly-hot-tourist-activity-in-hawaii-vegas-shooting-guns/?hpt=hp_t2

Why is it disturbing? email this writer!

It is becoming so common to hear this bile regurgitated over and over again.

It shows a lack of imagination and any real talent as a journalist.

It's so much easier to plagiarize someone else's idea of a story and defecate it to the public than to actually come up with an original idea.

The constitution is under attack and the irony is that the ignorant people assisting in the attack are American citizens, exercising their 1st amendment rights to attack the 2nd amendment.

When the other shoe drops and people are being arrested and imprisoned for writing or saying anything that the government doesn't agree with, then they'll realize their mistake. Unfortunately it will be too late.

Sad.

Curiously, even as some tourists are eager to take advantage of the availability of guns in the U.S., they are also fearful of Americans’ wide-open access to guns. “I wouldn’t feel comfortable traveling to the mainland U.S. because of the gun laws,” one Japanese tourist is quoted saying. “Hawaii is OK.”

this is what happens when you treat your entire citizenry like subjects and little children.  They start to develop unhealthy fears of inanimate objects because they dont know any better.   

I'm not surprised that Japanese tourists enjoy shooting here in the States. Makes perfect sense.

In fact, I ~was~ surprised when a friend of mine from Germany jumped at the chance to go shoot a .45 at the local range. He was like a little kid. What is surprising about it is that he's essentially a SWAT team policeman in Germany. I guess the experience of casual target shooting with friends at the local range is something he never gets and doesn't understand. It was a uniquely American moment for him.

I'm also pretty sure the article is spot on when it mentions Japanese tourists being uncomfortable travelling in the states with all the guns around. I'm pretty sure that's the reason we have such strict laws here in the first place. Both in that the State government is more idealogically linked to Japan than to the US and in that it makes the place seem safer for the tourists. That feeling of safety is an illusion, of course, but if that's how they feel about it then the HTA and HPD will use it as an excuse to keep things as they are.