Earlier this week a friend of several decades sent me a book review on the subject of guns, gun laws, mayhem in the US, etc. The reviewer took issue with Trump's comment made while visiting Japan that "nothing can be done to stop mass shootings". Trump's remark followed the recent church massacre in Sutherland Springs, Texas. The reviewer went on to compare gun deaths in Japan that "rarely exceed 10 per year while we hover around 30,000." He finishes the thought with, "Clearly Japan has figured something out that we have not . . . or that we don't want to."