r/canadaguns • u/AutoModerator • Aug 03 '26

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u/gatoswizo Aug 12 '26

New slop drop: https://thepoint.com.au/opinions/260811-australia-should-follow-japans-gun-laws

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u/boozefiend3000 Aug 13 '26

Man, I absolutely can’t stand that country 

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u/InitialAd4125 Aug 13 '26

I can't tell which one you're referring to and I agree in both cases. Like Japan I'm more pissed at America because they could have restructured them to be like Switzerland but instead made a easy to control puppet.

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u/FunkyFrunkle Aug 13 '26 edited Aug 13 '26

I’ve said it before, people are quick to point to countries like Japan and Australia when they could instead point to countries like Finland, the Czech Republic or Switzerland where everyone more or less gets what they want with the same results.

Japan has centuries worth of civilian disarmament stretching back to the 1500’s with the great “sword hunt”. They literally drafted disarmament laws as a means to keep the hierarchy in place because the peasants wouldn’t stop revolting. So, they decreed that nobody could own a sword or a gun.

Japans disarmament laws were not rooted in public safety or in good faith, they’re rooted in oppression. This is something that should be brought up the next time someone tries to wax lyrical about Japans gun control regime. It was never about public safety, it was about public control. It was literally the upper echelons of Japanese society decreeing that only people of the highest standing and the military could own weapons.

This is like saying North Korea is the gold standard because they don’t allow civilian firearm ownership. While Japan is definitely NOT comparable North Korea in any way, the initial motivation for the disarmament laws are the exact same and it’s not public safety.

Japan has a long and complex history of societal oppression, and horrific human rights abuses up to WW2. Ask the legions of people who were tortured and killed by the ruling class how “safe” they felt that nobody was allowed to own weapons.

People act like Japan is and always was some fucking magical, progressive utopia and I genuinely do not understand where the fuck this comes from. Japan does have a unique and vibrant culture and went on to contribute a lot of wonderful things to the world, but their gun control regime isn’t one of those things. People seriously need to pick up and read a fucking history book if they want to stop looking like simps for oppression.

Australia used to be a penal colony and hunting is seen as a “bogan” (redneck/hillbilly) past time and pest control. There also seems to be a much broader anti-gun consensus in Australia.

The whole “prove a need” thing is also pointless in Canada because we’re well past the point where something like that is even feasible. For one thing, it creates a huge issue concerning the guns that are already owned. With the vast majority of them being non-restricted, there’s no registry to prove who has what and therefore, it’s unenforceable. Not only that, but if they’re struggling to get support (and the guns they already banned) across most of the country, then trying to buy back all of the “unjustified” guns is practically impossible.

Gun control activists routinely point to these countries as the “GoLd StAnDaRd” while conveniently ignoring that these countries do not share Canada’s logistical, cultural, economic, geographical and political realities. They try to hand-wave these issues off as simple fixes when in reality we’re witnessing something comparatively smaller in scope take place and to the surprise of nobody it’s falling apart.

Only a handful of municipalities are taking part. Other provinces outright refused and passed laws. Multiple police forces have refused. It’s going to the Supreme Court. For a country that supposedly loves gun control, it’s certainly not going very well for the gun-control crowd.

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u/InitialAd4125 Aug 13 '26

Yeah far to many people glaze Japan because of good public transit and shit when in reality it's not all that great.

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u/Natural_Comparison21 Aug 13 '26

Also Australia still has people getting guns. See homemade guns seized in Australia. It makes Canadas look small.

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u/TKB-059 bc Aug 15 '26

Japan and Australia

My favorite factoid about them that everyone forgets is they're fuckin islands. Canada shares the largest, least secured border in the world with the largest manufacturer, exporter and civilian consumer of firearms in the world.

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u/boozefiend3000 Aug 13 '26

The former prison colony 

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u/Silver_Pollution_297 Aug 13 '26

That's my theory. The only ones that survived were the boot lickers, all the rebellious ones got killed off 150 years ago.