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Ah, didn’t realize that he was still party leader.
I don’t think he is an official part leader but more of an unofficial faction leader. Japan is pretty much a one party state and it’s the factions within the party that determine the direction of the country.
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The equivalent would be the PM of Germany denying the Holocaust and paying respects annually at the graves of Nazi elites.
> graves of Nazi elites
The Allies were smart with that one, most of the big ones were cremated and their ashes were spread, that way there are no shrines.
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This news about Abe is definitely a bit shocking, but nowhere near as scary as the indiscriminate killings we keep hearing about from the US. If you're a high profile politician, having a target on your back is basically part of the job description. The fact that "being a US resident" is now on more or less the same level, is a bit scary.
Statistics still matter. The odds of dying in a car accident throughout your life are about 1 in 100. If you take out suicide and gang violence, getting shot randomly is much less likely than dying in a car. Yet I go and drive around for fun some days and don't worry one but about it.
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It's not a buyback since the government never owned it. It's coerced confiscation.
So if you sell your house, or sell your car, or sell a loaf of bread, is that also coerced confiscation?
Is extremely disingenuous to suggest that a gun "buyback" is voluntary. You either do it or you're a felon.
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> must take more dramatic measures to prevent it from falling into the hands of some regime the pen used for voting has more power than a gun to prevent the US from falling into the hands of "some regime".
"The pen is mightier than the sword" is a stupid idea. The pen has no power on its own. A regime will throw out your ballots.
Beneath the rule of men entirely great
The pen is mightier than the sword.
That is, the power of the pen is premised on power in arms being equal.
The line comes from Edward Bulwer-Lytton, of "It was a dark and stormy night" fame. It appears in the play Richelieu; Or the Conspiracy, about Cardinal Richelieu a/k/a a/k/a Armand Jean du Plessis, Cardinal-Duc de Richelieu et de Fronsac, who may have a line or two on the power of words to his fame (or at least ascribed) as well.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_pen_is_mightier_than_the_s...
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It explains so much that many Americans are still dreaming of a Red Dawn scenario. Sorry pal, it'll be a bright flash and then no more. Your guns aren't going to do shit.
The sad part is that it’s much more likely Americans would turn their guns on each other in some sort of civil war type situation; eg the Democrats/Republicans think the Republicans/Democrats stole the election, and an armed uprising is the only way to give power back to the right party.
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
Please don't take HN threads into hellish flamewar. It's not what this site is for, and it destroys what it is for. I understand the provocation in the GP comment, but reacting in full flame mode, complete with insults, is exactly what the site guidelines ask you not to do. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html Edit: you've started a bunch of other flamewars in this thread too. That's basically arson, rega…
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Statistics still matter. The odds of dying in a car accident throughout your life are about 1 in 100. If you take out suicide and gang violence, getting shot randomly is much less likely than dying in a car. Yet I go and drive around for fun some days and don't worry one but about it.
Guns are now the leading cause of death for people under the age of 24 in the US (and have been for several years). Yes, they exceed motor vehicle deaths. https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/2022/05/25/guns-are...
They're not.
Btw. shooter used home made (shot)gun, so I guess we should ban steel pipes and wood to play it safe.