Former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe gravely injured in shooting

Shinzo Abe – Chilling moment Japanese ex-PM is gunned down as deafening shots ring out in front of stunned onlookers

Current condition: Critical condition cardiac arrest. Shot in back by shotgun. Still alive at this time.

He’s dead Jim.

Former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe dies after being shot during speech

That is a shame. He seemed like a good guy.




Reports are that it was a 'rumble gun'. A home made firearm. Guns in Japan are extremely rare.

It sounded like a cannon in the video I saw.


The accused is a former SDF member.

I wouldn't go that far. He refused to recognize Japanese atrocities during WW2. He was a pretty hard right nationalist. Obviously didn't deserve this, but I wouldn't say he was an especially good guy.

It was like a home made blunderbuss/double barrel shotgun.

I wouldn't go that far. He refused to recognize Japanese atrocities during WW2. He was a pretty hard right nationalist. Obviously didn't deserve this, but I wouldn't say he was an especially good guy.

Regardless of his politics, he was scandal free. He did not hide his politics. Which makes him a big leap ahead of most politicians in the G7. He seemed like a guy you could trust, even if you didn't agree with him.

I don't think I could trust someone who sweeps war crimes under the rug.

To be fair thats every Prime Minister since Higashikuni and every Emperor since Hirohito.

Abe shooter says his mother bankrupted by donating to religious group

So it has to be Abe's fault.

I don't know why any extremest causes me to wonder anymore. I should just assume that their reasoning will fail.

I guess the only social benefit from a politician in Japan being shot is that the culture over there doesn't immediately jump to a "the JOO$/Soros/Agenda21/WEF/Hillary Clinton/etc did it!" mode the way it absolutely would here in North America. The Japanese are all correctly "looks like one of our incredibly fucked-up otakus finally snapped" and are OK with leaving it at that. Slightly reassuring that not all places on this planet are as hopelessly screwed up as our zone is.

The guy was a conspiracy nut, not Otaku.

FYI:
Otaku: a Japanese word that describes people with consuming interests, particularly in anime, manga, video games, or computers.

It's no different than someone who likes Guns or Sports, or anything else that we'd deem a sub-culture.