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I always point people to Japan regarding our gun homicide problem. Japan had the same murder rate as the USA up to the end of WW2, then it dropped and is now .3 per 100k, the lowest of any developed country. I was in Japan and looked at it- not that much on how or why, but it was surprising. At the end of the war Japan was despised by its neighbors, the population picked up on that, understood in their own way what had happened, and rejected and repudiated the old way. It was the old generation that was doing the bulk of the murders. You can see the murder rate drop as the older generation died off (I found one article on this that reference other articles and some research I couldn't find, or it was in Japanese characters). While I was there an old fellow got upset with his older neighbors and bludgeoned 5 of then to death in their sleep because they didn't like his dog. But the younger folk did very few murders. So along with making guns hard to get (you can get shotguns, and while I was there two people were injured by shotguns in the surrounding area), but handguns and rifles are hard to get and they have prescribed safe/chests they must be kept in and they do surprise inspections. So its a combination of making guns hard to get, prescribed safety measures and safe storage, and the rejection and repudiation of the old ways by the population from what I found.
