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Violence in Japan is so low, something like that is just outside their normal reality. It's more likely to see some malfunctioning tech, than experience a real
by slightwinder 4y ago
Violence in Japan is so low, something like that is just outside their normal reality. It's more likely to see some malfunctioning tech, than experience a real gun fired. And with all the smoke, that's what people probably thought at first, that some tech went haywire.
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- yodsanklai 4y ago> something like that is just outside their normal reality It's the case in most developed countries I believe.
- lexapro 4y agoYes. I've never had a gun in my hands or saw/heard one being fired and don't know anyone who has. Same for most non-developed countries I imagine.
- jiggawatts 4y agoUntil I was 42, I had never seen a real gun except on the belt of a police officer. I lived near an Army barracks for a decade and never saw a soldier carrying a gun. In my twenties one of the crazy types at work brought a very realistic replica gun to work. He's the type that in some countries would bring a real gun to work, but here... it was just a toy to freak people out with. His strange proclivities weren't what really freaked me out. The toy gun did. I could name the manufacturer instantly when I saw it. I knew how every part worked, and what every part was called. I could operate it without difficulty or confusion. I knew that it had a grip safety, a manual safety, and a trigger safety. I knew what all of those meant. I knew how to reload it, and what to do to release the slide from its locked-back position. It was like... a dragon. We've all seen dragons on TV and read about them in books. We can describe a dragon in detail. We can talk about their behaviour, their capabilities, and their nature. Most of us can name specific dragons. But they're a thing of myth, not something real. Until some guy brings a dragon to work and you realise that they aren't just figments of our imagination. Somewhere out there, there's a country where every second person has a dragon like we have dogs here. There must be a lot of fires there instead of just... barking.
- mellavora 4y ago
- sweetheart 4y agoThere were three mass shootings in my city this past weekend, and one of them included a friend of a friend. But life goes on because this is America. My friends and I decided to stop going to large events. How sad is that?
- samhw 4y agoIn the same vein, I was discussing police responses to mass shootings on Twitter, and was quite surprised to find Wikipedia took me to a disambiguation page when looking up “[random small town] shooting”: https://twitter.com/samziz/status/1544460684829904896 https://twitter.com/samziz/status/1544460684829904896
- elif 4y agoTwo days ago my neighbor was relaxing in his front yard with his dog behind a tall fence. His dog started barking at someone walking on the sidewalk. One of the two on the sidewalk threw his lit cigarette through the fence panels into the dog's face. The owner said "that's not really necessary now come on" In response, the man said "fuck you my guy" and shot at him three times. Since he wasn't injured, the police showed up about 60 minutes later and there are no leads (and likely no investigation) Can't even feel comfortable at your own home. I also live in the city where 2 subway employees were shot (one fatally) over "too much mayo" last week.
- potatototoo99 4y agoAbe is the sixth Japanese PM assassinated.
- chronogram 4y agoI don't think these people were in the same area all those times.
- jpoesen 4y agoLet's put that in context shall we: the last Japanese PM assassination before Abe was close to 100 years ago.
- slightwinder 4y agoTechnically true, but looking it up, it seems the last PM was killed in 1936. Additionally, in the 192x and 193x many high ranking politicians died, of which were many PM or former PM.
- KineticLensman 4y agoCould you list them please? Some googling got me the following, which includes survivors and non prime-ministers. * November 14, 1930, Yukio Hamaguchi * May 15, 1932, 11 Prime Minister Takeshi Inuyo * July 14, 1960, Nobusuke Kishi (survived an assassination attempt) * October 12, 1960, left-wing Japanese Rep. Inajiro Asanuma * October 25, 2002, Ishii Hiroki (opposition leader) * April 17, 2007, the mayor of Nagasaki, Kazucho Ito * July 2022: Shinzo Abe I started with https://www.tellerreport.com/news/2022-07-08-looking-back-on-japanese-history--there-have-been-many-prime-ministers-and-congressmen-who-were-assassinated.Hywy8IwSj9.html https://www.tellerreport.com/news/2022-07-08-looking-back-on...
- areyousure 4y ago2022 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shinzo_Abe https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shinzo_Abe 1936 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sait%C5%8D_Makoto https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sait%C5%8D_Makoto 1936 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Takahashi_Korekiyo https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Takahashi_Korekiyo (same incident as previous) 1932 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inukai_Tsuyoshi https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inukai_Tsuyoshi 1931 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamaguchi_Osachi https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamaguchi_Osachi (initially survived assassination attempt, but succumbed to his wounds) 1921 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hara_Takashi https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hara_Takashi 1909 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/It%C5%8D_Hirobumi https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/It%C5%8D_Hirobumi See also: 1878 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C5%8Ckubo_Toshimichi#cite_note-7 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C5%8Ckubo_Toshimichi#cite_not...
- Melting_Harps 4y ago> It's more likely to see some malfunctioning tech, than experience a real gun fired. And with all the smoke, that's what people probably thought at first, that some tech went haywire. What the hell did he shoot him with it, a relic musket from a Sengoku Jidai display? I don't think I've ever seen or heard anything like that outside of military battle reenactments, with all that smoke it sounds like a cannon more than a gun. Abenomics would always end up this way, Japan has been facing an ACTUAL existential crisis since the end of the bubble era. You know you messed up when you made these people go from Karoshi to assassination.
- zaik 4y agoIt's a self-made gun.
- Melting_Harps 4y ago> It's a self-made gun. I guess that sort of makes sense, but even then DD's Liberator from 8 years ago was a far better option to go for here.
- Lio 4y ago"better option" in what possible way? I'm very sorry to say this homemade gun did exactly the job it was intended to do. Terrible news. :(
- int_19h 4y agoYou're forgetting that he also had to make his own ammo. A black powder shotgun is the easiest firearm to make from scratch if you have that constraint.
- p33p 4y agoI read elsewhere that authorities think the gun was homebuilt as guns are so rare and hard to get in Japan.
- torgian 4y agoIt was literally two pipes strapped to what looks like a block of wood.
- newbieuser 4y agoI think this comment is irrelevant. I would not explain this unresponsiveness in this way. The video is truly one of the weirdest videos I've ever seen.
- bamboozled 4y agoFireworks are also everywhere and used for many occasions, easy to mistake that sound for a fire cracker.