Yes. First point is it's culturally less obtuse because it's a western frame of reference. Second, it's historic fact. More interestingly, they adapted the tool

Yes. First point is it's culturally less obtuse because it's a western frame of reference. Second, it's historic fact. More interestingly, they adapted the tools toward peaceful uses making carrying them frowned upon in public. While the same has been considered before for guns, eg. a smart gun which only chambers a round or fires when in a designated recreational shooting zone, time or season, or when pointing in the right direction, etc. ... the reality is that clawing 100s of 1000s of firearms out of the general US public is not going to happen.