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You’re right. We’re too in entrenched in this shit so we shouldn’t ever consider just doing what will fix it. 
Wait, no… that’s not right at all. The best time to get rid of the 2nd amendment was yesterday. The next best time is today.
End this shit someday by starting now.
Been in Japan 10 years never even seen or heard a gun outside of the internet/movies/tv. Can't have anything to do with their laws though. >

Because the laws you're talking about are several hundreds of years old. They basically prohibited peasants from owning weapons in order to prevent uprisings. Those laws were revised and rewritten dozens of times and then again post-WWII after Japan became occupied by the US in order to make sure Japan couldn't rise up against the occupying forces.  
You don't see firearms because the rate of firearm ownership, or any weapon ownership, was extremely limited from the beginning. >

Every day is a beginning. >

Except not all beginnings are the same. It's very easy to toss out fun phrases on the internet without weighing contextual and historical differences.  
Say I wrote a law in the US prohibiting the production and ownership of cricket bats and cricket accessories. Here in the US, that law would probably be easy to achieve because rh rate of ownership is low and there's not domestic industry that drives sales of cricket-related products on local and international markets.  
But let's say after succeeding in the US, I turned around and said "since it worked in the US, it's now time to ban cricket in India, the UK, and Australia." It would be much harder to implement because there is a larger established cricket fan base, the rate of ownership of cricket-related products is much higher, and they have localized markets which drive sales.  
Saying "well, every day is a beginning" doesn't mean as much because the laws would be "beginning" in completely different contexts which either support or diminish the likelihood of successful implementation.   
So back to firearms, Japan never had widespread firearm ownership in their population. They also never hard a large firearm industry which served both the Japanese and international markets. The US has all of the above: high rate of ownership and a very large industry.