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Re:How an Idea to Develop a Safer, Smart Gun Backfired by Animats on Saturday April 09, 2016 @09:12PM (#11464308)
Japan, for one. At the end of WWII, the US Army of Occupation took away all the guns. The Government of Japan never removed restrictions on gun ownership.

In 2013, 12 people in Japan were killed by guns.

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Re:How an Idea to Develop a Safer, Smart Gun Backfired by hga on Saturday April 09, 2016 @09:19PM (#11464336)
The laws keeping "civilians" from owning effective personal weapons go back to a minimum of 1588: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sword_hunt

I don't think there's any removing of Japanese crime and crime control from the following 2.5 century Tokugawa military dictatorship, which had profound effects in creating modern Japanese society.

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Re:How an Idea to Develop a Safer, Smart Gun Backfired by SerLava on Sunday April 10, 2016 @03:46AM (#11465333)
Japan's not the best example to hold up as a success for gun control. The last 70 years have been nice.

During the prior 400 years, the various Japanese governments used gun and sword confiscation to enable crimes ranging from brutal to genocidal.

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