@Anon-e-moose
"So you'll restore Japan's gun - and Katana - rights, after they were cruelly wrested away from them by the tyrannical Americans after WWII, amirite?!"
Gun/weapon control was part of Japan even before WWII, you knucklehead.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overview_of_gun_laws_by_nation#Japan
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sword_hunt
"Several times in Japanese history, the new ruler sought to ensure his position by calling a sword hunt (?? katanagari). Armies would scour the entire country, confiscating the weapons of the enemies of the new regime. In this manner, the new ruler sought to ensure that no one could take the country by force as he had just done. The most famous sword hunt was ordered by Toyotomi Hideyoshi in 1588."
Despots know very well that an armed population is a threat to their power. The ones fighting the despots also know it. Only leftists insist that weapons can't make a difference in resisting tyranny.
Furthermore, don't ever pretend that Japan was ever this freedom loving paradise, unfairly targeted by the US. They started a war of aggression and lost. The terms of their surrender is something they have to accept, similar to how convicted criminals forfeit some of their rights as part of their punishment. Don't like it, don't start a war, don't commit violent felonies.
By the way, here's what the Potsdam Declaration (terms of surrender sent to Japan) actually said on the matter:
"Japanese military forces, after being completely disarmed, shall be permitted to return to their homes with the opportunity to lead peaceful and productive lives."
"Japan shall be permitted to maintain such industries as will sustain her economy and permit the exaction of just reparations in kind, but not those which would enable her to rearm for war. To this end, access to, as distinguished from control of, raw materials shall be permitted. Eventual Japanese participation in world trade relations shall be permitted."
No explicit call to totally disarm civilians. Just: disarm the military + can't manufacture enough weaponry on a level to start a war basically. You would need FAR more than just a lot of firearms for that anyway. Japan is surrounded by water for once, in case somebody didn't realize. In order to start another war with other nations as Japan you would need a whole navy and air force. You would need materials needed to make explosives used in wars. I don't think you can argue that civilians having access to purchase firearms is enough to constitute "rearming for war" and thus break the terms of surrender.
Even if you want to interpret it as mandate for a total gun ban, a long time has passed since then, mentalities have changed, most of the people who lived back then are dead or very old and weak and Japan isn't trying to conquer anyone, so I have no problem with Japan recognizing the right of Japanese civilians to keep and bear arms.
"No school shootings in the UK's entire history up to 1996."
This stupid argument again?
You know what else would really really reduce car accidents? A built in mechanism to make the top speeds no more than 20 miles per hour. Hell just confiscate the cars and give everyone tricycles. Are you prepared to further sacrifice your liberty AND potentially expose yourself to being unable to overthrow a tyrannical government?
It's not even a hypothesis, recent European history is full of governments becoming tyrannical (Germany, Eastern bloc - all democracies - before they weren't anymore)
It's never going to be done in the US though for 2 reasons:
1. plenty of people would rather die than peacefully give up their weapons, the costs will be too much to bear, you may even stir up another civil war
2. there are far too many guns in circulation anyway, a mass confiscation policy, assuming you can even pervert the 2nd amendment to that extent, will only affect law abiding citizens, plus your unwillingness to control the southern border will mean more guns will keep coming in, in the hands of violent gangs
Japan is an island, not that easy. So is UK. They don't have a border that's 2000 miles long with a country of which large parts are controlled by violent mobsters.