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Quite right. The question is why? If culture is driven by events, it feels like they should have embraced gun culture given how huge that event was. If it's
by Lazare 9y ago
Quite right. The question is why? If culture is driven by events, it feels like they should have embraced gun culture given how huge that event was. If it's not, then when triggered the earlier abandonment?
- boomboomsubban 9y agoThe abandonment was triggered by the shogunate having a large amount of control over anyone wealthy enough to own a gun. Afterwards, the military certainly embraced gun culture, but civilian gun culture largely rises from colonialism.