By Grand Rapids Anonymous
Friday, July 8, 2022 at 1:10:00 A.M. EDT
ex-japanese prime minister Shinzo Abe rushed to hospital after being shot while making speech, officials say
By Celina Tebor
usa today
former japanese prime minister Shinzo Abe was shot friday during a campaign speech in western japan and was airlifted to a hospital for medical treatment, officials said.
local fire department official Makoto Morimoto said Abe was in cardio and pulmonary arrest after being shot. His heart stopped while he was being airlifted to a hospital, Morimoto said.
police arrested a male suspect at the scene of the shooting in nara, chief cabinet secretary Hirokazu Matsuno told reporters.
nhk public broadcaster aired footage showing Abe collapsed on the street, with several security guards running toward him. he was bleeding and holding his chest.
witnesses reported hearing gunshots in the apparent attack in nara. Abe was standing while making an election campaign speech ahead of sunday’s election for the parliament's upper house.
GRA: I anticipate similar here this year.
--GRA
JAPAN'S ABE SHOT AND KILLED DURING CAMPION SPEECH
ReplyDelete(nbc)TOKYO — Former Japanese leader Shinzo Abe died Friday after being shot at a campaign event, an attack that shocked a country where gun violence is virtually nonexistent.
Abe, 67, was a towering political presence even after he stepped down as Japan’s longest-serving prime minister, and he was campaigning ahead of elections scheduled for Sunday.
He had just begun a speech in the western city of Nara, near Kyoto, when gunfire was heard around 11:30 a.m. local time (10:30 p.m. Thursday ET).
Police said that Tetsuya Yamagishi, a 41-year-old unemployed man, was arrested at the scene and was being investigated for murder. The suspect confessed to his crime, police said, adding that he told them he harbored a grudge against a group he believed was connected to Abe. Yamagishi also claimed to police that he had previously worked at Japan's Navy for three years.
They said they understood the attack was carried out with a homemade gun and later found several other weapons that appeared to be homemade from a mix of metal and wood at Yamagishi’s residence. It is unclear whether the suspect carried proper licenses for the weapons.
Police are still investigating whether the suspect acted alone.
GRA:It should be obvious by now,if a person wants to kill someone--they'll do it--no matter any laws on the books.
--GRA
This happened because Japanese are deranged gun nuts and it is so easy for the Japanese public to buy guns.
ReplyDeleteOh wait--wrong country--guns are extremely restricted and hard to get in Japan. So much for the effectiveness of gun control--a determined criminal can always find a way to get a gun or kill people some other way. That being the case, it is best for people to get a concealed carry in states where that is necessary, or just get one and carry it in the free states where Constitutional Carry is the law--as guaranteed in the Constitution