Shinzo Abe, former Prime Minister of Japan is assassinated

[Scout]

This deserves its own thread.


Shinzo Abe, former Prime Minister of Japan is assassinated - https://www.npr.org/2022/07/08/1110440504/former-japan-prime-minister-shinzo-abe-killed

 

[Scout]

Terrible, awful, surprising and I hope we don’t see copycats.

 

[hondo]

Cue the U.S. gun nuts saying, "see ... it isn't just us," while ignoring the fact that there's about one shooting per year in Japan.

 

[User 150927]

Absolutely stunning that he was gunned down in public in Japan. Horrific.

 

[Batman]

Absolutely stunning that he was gunned down in public in Japan. Horrific.

It seems the shooter used a homemade shotgun. Where there's a will, there's a way.

 

[Neutral Corner]

Huge security failure that a guy carrying that thing was able to get that close to Abe.

 

[Scout]

Huge security failure that a guy carrying that thing was able to get that close to Abe.

In America, we are so hyper-sensitive to guns, it's our first thought. The rest of the world doesn't think this way, I think.

 

[Neutral Corner]

Maybe so, but if a dignitary's bodyguard does not they are utterly incompetent. From the look of that video the shooter was at most 40-50 feet away, and a black powder weapon with barrels that short is not accurate unless the range is very short.

I suspect that Japanese protective details are going to undergo the same sort of after action reforms that the U.S. Secret Service did post JFK.

 

[qtlaw]

Cue the U.S. gun nuts saying, "see ... it isn't just us," while ignoring the fact that there's about one shooting per year in Japan.

Plus Japan (nor any other country) has not had the following mass shootings in the span of one month:

elementary school
supermarket
parade​

 

[Brooklyn Bridge]

Plus Japan (nor any other country) has the following mass shootings in the span of one month:

elementary school
supermarket
parade​

I think I read where Japan had like 10 fatal shootings all of last year, compared to 30,000+ in the U.S.