Well I can see nobody has a clue of Japan’s history and is using utter bull**** to forward a false argument. Japan is a POLICE STATE. Because criminals prefer other weapons does not mean crime and violence is gone. Suicide is a vehicle thing,. What better way then just drive your car into wall. Oh wow he did not use a gun so that is OK. Is that success for gun control and gun control can now brag about it to fools who think it might help?
Crime and violence is a social problem that has absolutely nothing to do with the number of guns in society. Therefore controlling guns cannot change crime.
When are firearm owners going to learn that the first requirement of gun control is to prove a CAUSAL RELATIONSHIP between gun and crime. They have not done that in 200 years of desperate searching and junk science research.
So gun control advocates where is your proof? Lets have that so we can see you are not liars.
Arms control in Japan was followed by the most violence Japan has ever seen. Is that a recommendation for gun control? It was also introduce with an utter and complete lie to make it likeable to a foolish public.
The degree was probably the last truthful political statement on arms control made in the world would that interest anyone or do they now actually believe the lies of government over citizen arms control?
In 1588, the kampaku of Japan, Toyotomi Hideyoshi, issued the following decree:
1. Farmers of all provinces are strictly forbidden to have in their possession any swords, short swords, bows, spears, firearms, or other types of weapons. If unnecessary implements of war are kept, the collection of annual rent (nengu) may become more difficult, and without provocation uprisings can be fomented. Therefore, those who perpetrate improper acts against samurai who receive a grant of land (kyunin) must be brought to trial and punished. However, in that event, their wet and dry fields will remain unattended, and the samurai will lose their rights (chigyo) to the yields from the fields. Therefore, the heads of the provinces, samurai who receive a grant of land, and deputies must collect all the weapons described above and submit them to Hideyoshi’s government.
2. The swords and short swords collected in the above manner will not be wasted. They will be used as rivets and bolts in the construction of the Great Image of Buddha. In this way, farmers will benefit not only in this life but also in the lives to come.
3. If farmers possess only agricultural implements and devote themselves exclusively to cultivating the fields, they and their descendants will prosper. This compassionate concern for the well‑being of the farms is the reason for the issuance of this edict, and such a concern is the foundation for the peace and security of the country and the joy and happiness of all the people... Sixteenth year of Tensho [1588], seventh month, 8th day.
Prior to the late sixteenth century, Japanese of different classes carried swords and other weapons for self-defense during the chaotic Sengoku period, and also as personal ornaments. However, at times the people used these weapons against their samurai overlords in peasant revolts (ikki) and the even more threatening combined peasant/monk uprisings (ikko-ikki). Thus, Hideyoshi's decree was aimed at disarming both the farmers and the warrior monks.
To justify this imposition, Hideyoshi notes that farms end up untended when the farmers revolt and have to be arrested. He also asserts that the farmers will become more prosperous if they concentrate on farming rather than on rising up. Finally, he promises to use the metal from the melted-down swords to make rivets for a Grand Buddha statue in Nara, thus securing blessings to the involutary "donors."
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