How to Eradicate Terrorism and Make the World Peaceful
テロを根絶し、世界の平和を招来するために
by Tsugio Nagai
永井津記夫(ツイッター：https://twitter.com/eternalitywell)
In the former blog(written in Japanese) I referred to terrorism, which was as follows:
“The country that has the best cultural and religious background and system to prevent terrorism among the developed countries is maybe Japan, which reason is that Japan ended the religious civil war between Buddhism believers and Shintoism (the ancient Japanese religion where people worship many gods) believers in the late 6th century and succeeded in making Buddhism and Shintoism consistent with each other and that the Warring-State-Period conqueror Toyotomi Hideyoshi dared to deprive farmers of their weapons, such as swords, spears, and so on in order to distinctly divide the samurai from the agrarian class in the 16th century.
Most people in Japan were farmers at that time, so Hideyoshi managed to disarm farmers, namely, almost all the people in Japan in the late 16th century. And then Tokugawa Ieyasu, who succeeded Hideyoshi and established the Tokugawa Shogunate, continued the policy of prohibiting farmers from having weapons. Ieyasu and his successors probably made Japan the world’s safest country for the succeeding 270 years. After the Tokugawa Shogunate came the Meiji Government, which prohibited not only farmers but also ex-samurais from having weapons, and so thereafter none but the military and the police were allowed to have weapons in Japan. ”
On October 1st 2017, a mass shooting broke out in Las Vegas, America. Only one single man killed 58 people and injured more than 500 in about 11minutes. What a slaughter ! You cannot prevent this kind of “terrorism” by an individual from breaking out through wiretapping or the like. To dispossess people of their guns is the best way of preventing terrorism by an individual.
There are some people who get so furious for some reason as to resolve to kill other people as many as possible. If they have guns, they can easily carry out their resolution. But if they don’t have any guns, they might give up their resolution. Even if they don’t give up, they cannot but use knives or hatchets or the like, in which case they would be unable to kill so many people or might not be able to kill anyone because of being stopped by some brave people. The killing power of guns is scores of times as strong as that of knives.
If you do aspire to eradicate terrorism, you should do two things: one is to dispossess people of their guns(this is effective to prevent terrorism coming from an individual's rage) and the other is to make God and Buddha go together, which means making Christianity, Islam, Judaism and Buddhism consistent and harmonious with each other(this is effective to prevent groups' terrorism coming from religious ideas). This seems impossible, but you surely can so long as you continue to aspire for it.
May God and Buddha bless those who aspire and strive for peace ! (October 5th 2017)
※ In the United States of America it is extremely difficult for the government to prohibit all the people (except the military and the police) from owning guns, because in America there are not a few sparsely populated areas where some dangerous animals (including human beings) may attack and kill people. In those areas the government should allow the dwellers to own guns, but in large cities with a large population and good police protection the owning and carrying of guns should be prohibited. (Added on March 28, 2019)