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In a world where every man had his mandated place, those in charge could never let the weak have a tool which enabled them to so effortlessly match the strong.
The essence of modern gun control. The Japanese restricted swords so that the samurai were the caste with unlimited martial power. Guns totally broke the Japanese system when they arrived and allowed the Americans to fairly easily force global trade on the Japanese using their "ironside" steam ship.
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