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Former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe shot in the back in Nara City (Suspect arrested, UP: Abe confirmed dead) (See Staff Post)
- Thread starter Mankoto
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We're on the same page. LDP will totally use this and do even better in the polls in a few days. Japan is never escaping the LDP.
This seems totally unrelated to the message you're quoting or the message I was responding to.
Yeah, I don't think there's been an assassination of this magnitude in decades. Not in my lifetime, at least. You'd have to go back to, like, Rajiv Gandhi? Even if Abe wasn't sitting Prime Minister, he was probably the most influential politician in one of the most influential countries on Earth.
One for the history books. Absolutely crazy.
I should have figured. Maybe there more limitations than I think there are, I mean as opposed to hunting rifles, that would make shotguns "ideal" as the only firearm you can legally aquire.
I would think he would have had more security. Even if he is "only" a former PM.
That was the case anyway. They have had control for 62/66 years since their founding.
Nara was one of my favourite places we went to. Its unreal to imagine this happening
I know he was controversial and had some garbage agendas, but he did not deserve this of all things.
Yes, shotguns are available in Japan. This older dude I knew in Narita had one on his farm and his brother has one just to scare some wildlife off, but not kill them. They have to go through background checks and post checks while owning it.
Yes, shotguns are available in Japan. This older dude I knew in Narita had one on his farm and his brother has one just to scare some wildlife off, but not kill them. They have to go through background checks and post checks while owning it.
Shotguns are used to hunt all kinds of small game. They're extremely common as a hunting weapon. A long barrel shotgun has good stopping power but isn't all that reliable at killing a person.
Yeah LDP has been omnipresent for over half a century now. I don't think this moves much to be honest.
Ok, but I figured it's more effective against killing people than a hunting rifle would be. Then again, I'm clearly no firearms expert.
honestly even if you think Abe was an asshole (and he absolutely was) and even if you think he deserved to die for that, this type of death literally only strengthens the power of people with similar beliefs who will parade him as a martyr. Like again at the risk of sounding tin foil hatty i can't help but feel like the people who'd stand to gain the most here are other members of his own party who now have a power vacuum they can fill and an event they can use as propaganda. obviously that's not the only reason, a dude like Abe has accumulated tons of personal grudges and even a lone nutjob, while unlikely due to Japan's gun laws, isn't impossible. and of course the worst case option of this being a hit by a foreign country isn't off the table yet either
The dude who was assassinated at that art gallery a few years back maybe? But even then the fact I don't remember the name probably speaks volumes.
There have been a few times in the last 30 years they weren't. Of course they'd have done well anyway, but now they'll have a martyr.
Yeah. Suffice to say I haven't kept a close eye on the inner national politics of the country recently but were this politically motivated then I imagine it would be futile, as literally shooting political officials will likely do nothing but augment the political monopoly.
Who knows if it was personally motivated or something else, though.
Unlike video games would have you believe, shotguns are mostly for hunting game
Yeah my brains struggling a bit to recognise this took place there, considering what the city is generally known for.
Yep. When you have people like Steve bannon in the US saying they are some hero… Yeah.
