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Originally Posted by manta49
Just because some country has strict firearms laws, doesn't automatically mean it is an oppressive country. There are more things than firearms laws that make a country an oppressive place or not.
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That is true I suppose, but it is oppressive in that way at least. I suppose the difference in culture has something to do with it. In Japan, the samurai tradition is deeply ingrained in the collective memory. In the US, we have the American rifleman ingrained in our's.