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You can’t carry a gun in a bar. Or in Japan.
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January 14th, 2010 at 10:50 am
When you outlaw guns, only outlaws (Yakuza) will have guns.
Japan has always restricted ownership of weapons to special classes of persons (Samurai, etc)–Okinawa and its martial arts are all based around farm implements turned into makeshift weapons, since “real” weapons (swords) were outlawed.
The Samurai class also disliked firearms when they were first introduced into warfare because a peasant could kill a mighty nobleman with one well-aimed shot from a distance. Eventually the Emperor overcame this resistance and modernized the Japanese army, to the world’s regret.
Also, I think we went a little overboard with forcing pacifism on the Japanese after WW2…Japanese today are a little like H.G. Wells’ Eloi; a little TOO civilized for their own good.
Japanese businessmen love to visit our local indoor range in Houston because you can rent fully automatic weapons. For them it’s enjoying exotic and foreign “forbidden fruit”.
It will take a real revolution in ideas and culture for Japan to ever embrace true individual liberty that would allow for unlicensed private gun ownership. Something we could’ve instituted after WW2, but now it’s out of our hands. Instead we opted to prop up native Pacifism and guarantee their strategic defense.
Japan is still so insular, conformist and densely populated I don’t see such a change happening in our lifetime. I think many Japanese are smart enough to know intellectually that gun control is bullshit, but I imagine it’s still difficult to argue that in public in Japan without being regarded as a madman.