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Police officers guard the front of a center for the disabled, where a mass knife killing took place, in Sagamihara, Kanagawa prefecture, Japan, on July 26.

Under strict gun laws, Japan’s mass killers must rely on knives instead

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Japan just had its deadliest mass killing since World War II. It was the fatal stabbing of 19 people with mental disabilities.

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