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NRA has history of promoting gun rights outside U.S.

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By LISA MARIE PANE

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They need to keep their sick ideology within the US. Stop infecting the rest of the world with the gun disease.

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They need to keep their sick ideology within the US. Stop infecting the rest of the world with the gun disease.

They need to be snubbed out of the US as well...

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Promoting guns is like having unprotected sex while infected with HIV.

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Firearms were not that difficult to obtain in Japan before the war, although there was resistance against owing them on a cultural and historical levels. What's interesting is that the postwar military occupation pretty much banned civilian gun ownership except as pest control by farmers and use by police. The regulations were kept in place even after the occupation ended and it was not until six years later that Japan's Diet got around to enacting a firearms and swords control law. It was passed by acclaim, with no objections and no debate. And guess what? That law pretty much was a rubber stamp of what the occupation authorities put into force. (The NRA notwithstanding.) Whatever the legislative motives may have been back in 1958, I congratulate the members of the Diet for their wisdom and common sense.

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@NCIS--if you are counting wooden "swords" among the regulated weapons, martial arts items such as the kendo shinai was banned during the 1940s occupation but then became legal again. And hunting is possible in Japan without owning farmland, so the laws on who can hunt with guns must have liberalized somewhat. So it seems that Japanese lawmakers brought more sensible ideas to correct the earlier harsh occupation laws.

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NRA exists because we have way too many naive fools...

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They need to keep their sick ideology within the US. Stop infecting the rest of the world with the gun disease.

If other countries want it and it helps them, I’m all for it.

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NRA exists because we have way too many naive fools...

... who agree with them.

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Those three capitalized letters in that order are one of the organizations I most despise. If they were ever to receive some real karma I would not be displeased in the least.

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