EXTREMELY detailed thesis on Japanese Gun Control

**jgnp15333** · September 2nd, 2010, 05:05 PM

It is well worth the read.

Enjoy!

http://www.guncite.com/journals/dkjgc.html

**MrBi11** · September 2nd, 2010, 05:12 PM

here's a thought, how about the anti's all move to Japan.

**falcn** · September 2nd, 2010, 05:17 PM

Japanese have a completely different social structure.

**bob308** · September 2nd, 2010, 05:34 PM

i am not a jap never want to be a jap. they are 2 faced one face wants to ban our rights. the other manufactures guns for sale here in the u.s.a.

**Karl/PA** · September 2nd, 2010, 05:43 PM

IV. A History of Civilian Disarmament
The late historian Richard Hofstadter rejected the idea that America's violent past might explain its present cultural attachment to the gun. He pointed out that Japan also had a violent past, but has managed to tame its passions and evolve to a more pacific, weapon-free state.[51] But the Japanese past, while violent, laid no cultural foundation for a gun culture. Weapons always were, and remain today, the mark of the rulers, not the ruled.

Japan's gun control laws came as a result of American occupation after WW2. A little research on McArthur's restructuring of the Japanese government will uncover this, and a few more odd quirks.

**jcabin** · September 2nd, 2010, 06:19 PM

Originally Posted by Karl/PA

Japan's gun control laws came as a result of American occupation after WW2. A little research on McArthur's restructuring of the Japanese government will uncover this, and a few more odd quirks.

enlighten us

**Yellowfin** · September 3rd, 2010, 10:18 AM

Originally Posted by Karl/PA

Japan's gun control laws came as a result of American occupation after WW2. A little research on McArthur's restructuring of the Japanese government will uncover this, and a few more odd quirks.

Japan had its own tradition of arms control: having had a feudal government just made gun control laws logical for them. Japan had a class structure for centuries where certain people were authorized to be armed while others not.

**Ieyasu** · September 3rd, 2010, 10:55 PM

Originally Posted by Karl/PA

Japan's gun control laws came as a result of American occupation after WW2. A little research on McArthur's restructuring of the Japanese government will uncover this, and a few more odd quirks.

Actually Japan's weapons control laws (including firearms) have been in effect a tad longer than WWII.

In August of 1585 Hideyoshi Toyotomi initiated "The Sword Hunt:"

The people in the various provinces are strictly forbidden to have in their possession any swords, short swords, bows, spears, firearms, or other arms. The possession of these unnecessary weapons makes difficult the collection of taxes and tends to foment uprisings . . . Therefore the heads of provinces, official agents, and deputies are ordered to collect all the weapons mentioned above and turn them over to the government…

Hideyoshi then had the weapons melted into a statue of himself. (He originally said the weapons would be melted into nails and bolts for a temple containing a large Buddha.) And further...

According to historian Stephen Turnbull, 'Hideyoshi's resources were such that the edict was carried out to the letter. The growing social mobility of peasants was thus flung suddenly into reverse... Hideyoshi had deprived the peasants of their weapons. Ieyasu [the next ruler] now began to deprive them of their self-respect. If a peasant offended a samurai he might be cut down on the spot by the samurai's sword... The inferior status of the peasantry having been affirmed by civil disarmament... the samurai enjoyed permission to kill and depart.' Any disrespectful member of the lower class could be executed by a samurai's sword. "

**wa3ra** · September 3rd, 2010, 03:14 AM

Originally Posted by bob308

i am not a jap never want to be a jap. they are 2 faced one face wants to ban our rights. the other manufactures guns for sale here in the u.s.a.

A little prejudiced, aren't we? Their society is totally different from ours. Incidentally, the Japanese don't manufacture arms for export, either; they consider even handling a gun 'dirty'.

**crlovel** · September 3rd, 2010, 07:21 AM

Originally Posted by wa3ra

A little prejudiced, aren't we? Their society is totally different from ours. Incidentally, the Japanese don't manufacture arms for export, either; they consider even handling a gun 'dirty'.

I beg to differ. My Japanese Nikko shotgun was manufactured for export. And a damn fine shotgun it is. Japanese factories made shotguns for several American companies.