Shinzo Abe Assassination Stuns Japan

Above, the weapon used to kill Shinzo Abe.

Japan is one of the safest places on Earth when it comes to crime.

This is not to say crime is non-existent, but it does happen. Compared to other counties, one can feel safe while visiting Japan. I have been to Japan eight times and never had a problem.

Japan has some of the strictest gun laws. Most Japanese have never seen a gun in person. Yet, despite all this, former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe was gunned down by a man with a homemade pistol. 

This tells us that gun control is totally useless if someone who is hell-bent on shooting someone, they will, proving once again that it is the person and not the gun that's responsible. This is contrary to what simple-minded liberals here think.

Spectrum News posted an article on how the Abe killing has shocked the Japanese people.

They start it off with:

TOKYO (AP) — The assassination of former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe in broad daylight Friday shocked a world that has come to associate Japan with relatively low crime and strict gun control.

Japan’s longest-serving prime minister, Abe was shot in the back while campaigning in the city of Nara for parliamentary candidates. He died at a hospital, two days before the election.

The suspect apparently circumvented the nation's ultra-tight gun regulations by building his own weapon. Police said the 15-inch (40-centimeter) device was obviously homemade, and one expert compared it to a muzzle-loading gun. Authorities confiscated similar weapons when they raided the suspect's nearby one-room apartment.

The motive of the man, who was taken into custody at the scene, remained unclear.

Fatal gun violence is virtually unheard of in Japan, and most Japanese go through life without ever handling, or even seeing, a real gun. Stabbings are more common in killings.

Major universities have rifle clubs, and Japanese police are armed, but gun ownership rights have been a distant issue for decades. Even police rarely resort to firing their pistols.

With a population of 125 million, the country had just 10 gun-related criminal cases last year, resulting in a single death and four injuries, according to police. Eight of those cases were gang-related.

The densely populated capital of Tokyo had zero gun incidents, injuries or deaths during that same year, although 61 guns were seized there.

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