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Former Japan PM Shinzo Abe Unconscious After Shooting; Man in Custody

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Re: Former Japan PM Shinzo Abe Unconscious After Shooting; Man in Custody

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Post by cyphar »

solarmist wrote: post #36
laurieg wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

While the gun laws are strict, you can get a licence for hunting or sport. Requirements include testing, demonstration of safe usage, separate safes for gun and ammunition and possible random police checks on your gun and storage. Shotguns are most common. Rifles are rarer but possible with a history of ownership of a shotgun.

Sure, but I assume this wasn't out in the countryside either. I can't imagine it would be easy to get close with a shotgun or rifle.

It was in Nara which is a reasonably big city but has lots of surrounding rural areas. According to NHK, police are saying it may have been a shotgun (the article has been edited multiple times and it's even less sure of that then when I left my comment).

Re: Former Japan PM Shinzo Abe Unconscious After Shooting; Man in Custody

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Post by cwwc »

solarmist wrote: post #24

The most surprising thing here is that he was shot. How does someone even get a gun in Japan? Number two is he’s the exPM, so what would shooting him gain?

Re: (partially) 1: looks homemade https://twitter.com/Mesuiki_aaaaa/status/1545247925990993920...

Re: Former Japan PM Shinzo Abe Unconscious After Shooting; Man in Custody

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Post by kafkaesque »

algoatecorn wrote: post #33
kafkaesque wrote: post #18

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Japanese police don't have a great reputation for pursuing leads, but it is most definitely one of the safest countries in the world.

"Safest countries in the world" is casting a pretty wide net. Yes, there are hundreds of countries worse. What is your point? Remove those worst countries and the US and it is pretty average compared to richer countries in the world.

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Post by summerlight »

tonfreed wrote: post #17
bamboozled wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There is a lot of unspoken of politicial struggles that go on in Japan, take this one for example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sanrizuka_Struggle . It's not just a totally peaceful place as many believe. Also, people are economically in a pretty bad place here, borders are still closed with no sign of opening. It might be a long shot but Abenomics was all about making Japan a "service economy", that relied heavily…

Guns are completely illegal there. Like you could point one at the average cop and it's so unthinkable that you'd have a real one they'd assume it was a toy. I think you might be onto something with the Yakuza, could be foreign activity as well.

No, it's not completely illegal, although it's heavily regulated. You can have a shotgun or an air gun with an approval and periodic check up from authority. And the suspect is known to use a shotgun for this crime.

Re: Former Japan PM Shinzo Abe Unconscious After Shooting; Man in Custody

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Post by solarmist »

cwwc wrote: post #43
solarmist wrote: post #24

The most surprising thing here is that he was shot. How does someone even get a gun in Japan? Number two is he’s the exPM, so what would shooting him gain?

Re: (partially) 1: looks homemade https://twitter.com/Mesuiki_aaaaa/status/1545247925990993920...

Yes it does. What I can see of it.

Re: Former Japan PM Shinzo Abe Unconscious After Shooting; Man in Custody

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Post by phnofive »

zzleeper wrote: post #44
matt_daemon wrote: post #42

One of the darker reasons I've been pulled into an operational call about order drops in a region's marketplace...

Sorry for the ignorance but what's an order drop?

A dip in the rate of orders being placed, often signifying some part of the checkout flow having slowed or broken.
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