Ex Prime Minister Of Japan May Have Been Shot. Taken To Hospital UPDATED: he died (compare, elect)
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Japan does not have high level protection for their politicians like many other countries do. I have seen abe in person years ago, he was a charismatic person, that is all I could remember.
This said, the hatred towards conservatives in this country is sickening and tiring. That's why I don't come here to post as much I used to. Life is precious and nobody needs this kind of venom and negative energy surrounding them all thd time simply because they choose to vote a certain way.
The country and the world is divided, period. Wish for kindness and world peace.
The guy is 41? The picture I saw of him, he looked like a skinny 20-year-old kid. No wonder a lot of these Japanese live to 100.
My grandma lived to 98 and she died young. . She worked till the day she died. Woke up 4am everyday and went to bed around 9pm. Her diet is mostly fish, miso soup, lots veggie, nuts, and fruits (nothing too sweet though). When she was in her 90s everyone thought she was in her 60s.
She was also a very peaceful person who was rarely mad. She, just like me has been a volunteer at a local VA hospital for a very long time. Working and staying active keep her young.
The fact remains that Japan has about 10 gun deaths per year. So I guess since the laws don't work the Japanese should be credited for voluntarily refraining from shooting each other.
He was murdered with a homemade, blackpowder gun. 2 pipe nipples, 2 pipe caps, a piece of 2x4 and some electrical tape. No word on firing mechanism, my bet a battery and nichrome wire to light the blackpowder.
Point is anyone that wants to kill can do so, gun laws or not.
Japan's population is about to drop in half this century. They're aging, have gone through 3 decades of deflation, economic stagnation. Their young people don't want to have kids and culturally are not even dating people of the opposite sex until they are much older in age. It's an interesting dynamic setting up in Japan.
So 1 incident in how many years is proof that their gun laws are a failure?
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Originally Posted by davidt1
Gun nuts are quick to say, "Japan has strict gun control, but there still is a gun violence. Gun control don't work."
But that's like one compared thousands in America.
It's not the number, it's the fact that even with strict gun control....guess what? Bad guys will still get them and use them if they really want to. THAT is what those posters are talking about.
The difference is culture. Their culture is the bigger player in all of this. There is far, FAR more respect in Japan towards others than there is in the U.S. The U.S. is filled to the brim with entitled snots who think the world owes them something because of their feelings. There is a serious lack of respect for fellow human beings in this country.
Watch videos of every day life in Japan. Notice how quiet it is, even in Tokyo. You don't have booming bass, screaming and fighting, people littering all over the place, trashing things when they get mad, making a public spectacle of themselves when angry, etc. You just don't see it. They bow to each other out of respect. What do we get? 'Hey! You owe me! If you don't give me what I want, I'm going to burn the city down!" That's what we get. There's no respect in this country, there's a lot of respect in Japan.
Bad guys are everywhere - and bad guys will get what they want, if necessary, laws or not.
He was murdered with a homemade, blackpowder gun. 2 pipe nipples, 2 pipe caps, a piece of 2x4 and some electrical tape. No word on firing mechanism, my bet a battery and nichrome wire to light the blackpowder.
Point is anyone that wants to kill can do so, gun laws or not.
When there is a will there is a way.
What would this assassin's motivation be. He probably knew it was one and done regardless of the improvised weapons they found in his home.
The country and the world is divided, period. Wish for kindness and world peace.
Agreed.
A terrible, terrible tragedy.
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. She worked till the day she died. Woke up 4am everyday and went to bed around 9pm. Her diet is mostly fish, miso soup, lots veggie, nuts, and fruits (nothing too sweet though). When she was in her 90s everyone thought she was in her 60s.
