Ask Japan. They've done it. Read all about it.
Japan has almost completely eliminated gun deaths — here's how >
https://www.businessinsider.com/gun...completely-eliminated-gun-deaths-2017-10?op=1
Excerpt from the article:
"A recent spate of mass shootings has prompted intensified discussions around gun control in the US.
On Saturday, four people were killed and 32 were injured in a shooting in Dadeville, Alabama, during a 16th birthday party. Last month, a 28-year-old woman opened fire at The Covenant School in Nashville, Tennessee,
killing three elementary school students and three adult staff members, according to police.
The attacks come on the heels of several other mass shootings in the past year, including
at a Fourth of July parade in Illinois, in a supermarket in
Buffalo, New York, and at an elementary school in
Uvalde, Texas.
There was 17 mass shooting this year, with 88 people killed,
according to The Associated Press.
One of the biggest questions being asked: How does the US prevent this from happening over and over again?
Although the US has no exact counterpart elsewhere in the world, some countries have taken steps that can provide a window into what successful gun control looks like. Japan, a country of 127 million people and
yearly gun deaths rarely totaling more than 10, is one such country.
"Ever since guns entered the country, Japan has always had strict gun laws," Iain Overton, executive director of Action on Armed Violence, a British advocacy group,
told the BBC. "They are the first nation to impose gun laws in the whole world, and I think it laid down a bedrock saying that guns really don't play a part in civilian society."
Japan is a country with regulations upon regulations
"Japan's success in curbing gun deaths is intimately linked with its history. Following World War II, pacifism emerged as one of the dominant philosophies in the country. Police only
started carrying firearms after American troops made them, in 1946, for the sake of security. It's also written into
Japanese law, as of 1958, that "no person shall possess a firearm or firearms or a sword or swords."
"The government has since loosened the law, but the fact Japan enacted gun control from the stance of prohibition is important. (It's also one of the main factors separating Japan from the US, where the Second Amendment broadly permits people to own guns.)
If Japanese people want to own a gun, they must attend an all-day class, pass a written test, and achieve at least 95% accuracy during a shooting-range test. Then they have to pass a mental-health evaluation, which takes place at a hospital, and pass a background check, in which the government digs into their criminal record and interviews friends and family. They can only buy shotguns and air rifles — no handguns — and every three years they must retake the class and initial exam."
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