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

Post by vlovich123 » Fri, Jul 08, 2022, 4:52 AM UTC

mullingitover wrote: post #132

chii wrote: post #94

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My take is that gun violence has several different categories, and gun control only helps some of them (such as accidental, or emotional, spur of the moment shootings), but doesn't prevent any premeditated ones. It will not stop people like the one at 4th july, nor those school shootings. Unless the gun control laws completely outlaw civilians owning guns - which i dont think will fly. The root cause of gun violence…

> It will not stop people like the one at 4th july, nor those school shootings. Unless the gun control laws completely outlaw civilians owning guns - which i dont think will fly. You sure about that? If we had an aggressive gun buyback program and really dried up the supply, sure, you might still be able to buy an assault rifle from the criminal underworld. However, if you have the disposable income to be able to aff…

Post by hunterb123 » Fri, Jul 08, 2022, 4:52 AM UTC

sofixa wrote: post #169

hunterb123 wrote: post #153

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Would you like to expand your criticism? I see a lot of vague hate for him here and biased links being posted. What exactly is your issue with him? Without using buzzwords like "historic revisionist" or "far-right, ultra-racist". - edit - Mainly people are saying he's racist because he visited Yasukini Shrine that honors the dead from Japan's wars when he resigned to "inform the spirits". It's not like visiting a "Na…

He is, like many other Japanese, hell bent on rewriting Japanese history with a positive spin, completely ignoring or at best downplaying their colonisation atrocities before and during WW2. Wasn't he the one who went to a shrine to a "WW2 hero" who also just happened to be a war criminal? Historic revisionism is an apt description, not a "buzzword".

Post by new299 » Fri, Jul 08, 2022, 4:53 AM UTC

syockit wrote: post #136

kafkaesque wrote: post #120

A good man? Do people here read anything non-tech related? Shinzo Abe was a world-renown revisionist who tried to turn Japan back into a far-right, ultra-racist country. Look, you guys are super smart with computers, but stop this absolute nonsense. https://jacobin.com/2017/03/abe-nippon-kaigi-japan-far-right

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Post by noSyncCloud » Fri, Jul 08, 2022, 4:55 AM UTC

elefanten wrote: post #141

kafkaesque wrote: post #120

A good man? Do people here read anything non-tech related? Shinzo Abe was a world-renown revisionist who tried to turn Japan back into a far-right, ultra-racist country. Look, you guys are super smart with computers, but stop this absolute nonsense. https://jacobin.com/2017/03/abe-nippon-kaigi-japan-far-right

The irony of lamenting people's reading material and then posting a Jacobin article the reads like a wall of text internet rant with some tabloid scuttlebutt sprinkled throughout. This is NOT a serious take on Abe. Centrist and professional IR academics laugh at the narrative that he's a fascist. A take that lives up to your handle. Edit: example from (center)left leaning academic economist blogger that speaks specif…

Post by resonious » Fri, Jul 08, 2022, 4:55 AM UTC

wirthjason wrote: post #84

And after debating gun violence all week with my friends in the wake of the 4th of July shooting in Highland Park I made an example of Japan and it’s low gun violence. Now this happens. Crazy stuff still happens in Japan but it’s usually a knife or ax. But guns and Abe are on another level.