Good look at the difference between the U.S. and most anywhere else. Barely any response from the crowd. It’s nice not assuming it’s gunshots immediately.
Totally agree. Can’t swing a dead cat without hitting somebody who hates America because our answer to bad politics is assassination.
Of course, this will be used as a straw man for why gun legislation doesn’t work while ignoring the whole crux of the argument. The point isn’t that strict gun laws will stop gun violence completely, it’s that it makes it significantly harder for someone to whimsically pick up high-caliber ordinance and go on a spree. The assassin here had to go to the length of constructing his own weapon that could never really be used in something like a school shooting. I know I’m mostly preaching to the choir, just irritated that I’m going to have to repeat this argument IRL in the next couple of days.
Plus he went through all that and was only able to kill a single person despite being in a huge crowd. In America, that’s probably at least 20+ dead and dozens injured by an AR-15 before the “good guy with a gun” (a/k/a self inflicted gun shot wound) saves the day.
The security team did seem really chill. They just stood around and were like "oh shit bro, they shot you."
I assume his security was armed? That’s some real incompetence. I wouldn’t be surprised if a couple of them threw themselves off a bridge.
This is when we knew we were headed for a truly special period in world history. Rt and like if you agree!
I just want to circle back and say that I agree with the prison thing, because it’s definitely been proven that nobody has ever been able to influence the outside world from a US prison. That would end it so quick.
My official statement: Abe sucked Assassinations suck Political cultures in which people are driven to engage in political violence because they don’t have recourse through the law suck I don’t want to be a scold, particularly in light of the above point, but the jokes about [redacted] suck
I was trying to explain his American analog to some coworkers this AM and couldn’t decide if Trump or Reagan fit better.
Think this is ultimately the biggest concern for me in the near future of American politics. Institutional trust is already at its lowest point since Watergate and then the Supreme Court starts going nuts with little pushback from the opposition in power, it’s going to make people who feel they’ve lost something desperate.
HW. He was Imperial Japanese political royalty. His fucking grandpa was the Manchuko overseer. Sick shit, dude.
I find it hard to care that a guy who undoubted flippantly made decisions that led to people's deaths, gets killed.
I think it's less about what you think about the guy than what you think about assassination as a political tool.
By the same token, letting your feelings on the person dictate how acceptable the action was is a tricky road that leads to a bad place (not that I know if that’s what you were doing). Assassination, like war, is a method of desperation that should be avoided at all possible costs.