Shinzo Abe shot

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quikah

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My first instinct was Yakuza but seeing that makeshift gun makes me think just some random nutjob. Maybe affiliated with Aleph (aka Aum Shinrikyo, the nuts that did the Sarin gas attack).
 
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According to Japanese investigators, the suspect, a former Navy man, said his motive was personal.

Shinzo Abe was hit twice in the neck, with one of the shotgun bullets traveling to Abe's heart, according to Japanese news sources.

The former PM had zero chance to survive. Police knew that Abe had passed from his wounds because he was not breathing as they rushed him to a hospital.
 
Xcobra

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Seems he has passed. Wow, it feels surreal that this can happen in a place like Japan 😮
 
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Reminds me of the Clint Eastwood movie In The Line Of Fire. A madman decides he’s going to kill then president. Even uses a homemade double barrel pistol.

RIP
 
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Xcobra said:
Seems he has passed. Wow, it feels surreal that this can happen in a place like Japan 😮
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But that’s just it, with suicide rates so high in Japan, imagine if guns were as readily available. Nope gun nutters acting all ignorant.
 
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eelw said:
But that’s just it, with suicide rates so high in Japan, imagine if guns were as readily available. Nope gun nutters acting all ignorant.
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But still, I doubt there'd be such a thing as mass murders. Suicide by gun, sure... But I guess we'll never know. I'm still stunned actually...
 
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jman19 said:
www.politico.com

Japan's former PM Shinzo Abe reportedly shot, is in heart failure

Witnesses reported hearing gunshots in the apparent attack in Nara.
www.politico.com www.politico.com

Feared dead / dying.

Gun deaths are extremely rare in Japan. Very strange and sad.
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He resigned in 2020 as prime minister because of health.
But wiki says he was a
Member of the House of Representatives
from 20 October 1996 – 8 July 2022 (his death).

So he was a member of house of Rep while he was PM?
And after he resigned because of health, he stayed on as a Rep?
 
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pmv

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Xcobra said:
Seems he has passed. Wow, it feels surreal that this can happen in a place like Japan 😮
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Yeah, if I'd had to guess which recently resigned/ejected world leader would be shot dead, the ex-PM of Japan would definitely not have been on the list.

Have they said whether there any political motivation to this at all? Or was it some weird motivation that only made sense to the killer?
 
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Holy crap. The suspect apparently made a 9 barrel version of the weapon that was used to assassinate Abe.
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Motive finally starting to come out. Apparently the suspect thinks Abe was part of some group he hated. Seems like it might be conspiracy theory type shit.
 
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JEDI said:
He resigned in 2020 as prime minister because of health.
But wiki says he was a
Member of the House of Representatives
from 20 October 1996 – 8 July 2022 (his death).

So he was a member of house of Rep while he was PM?
And after he resigned because of health, he stayed on as a Rep?
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Leader of the party is a member of the parliament, and becomes PM when the party has the majority of the seats or forms coalition governemnt with another party to achieve majority.
 
JEDI

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sdifox said:
Leader of the party is a member of the parliament, and becomes PM when the party has the majority of the seats or forms coalition governemnt with another party to achieve majority.
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so even after resigned as PM in 2020 because health, he stayed on as a Rep?
he wasnt healthy enuf to be PM but not sick enuf to quit all together?
 
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