Assassin Says He Did Not Kill Shinzo Abe Because of His Political Beliefs
Very shocking news out of Japan yesterday that former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe was shot and killed by an assassin. Even odder about this assassination is that the killer says he did not do it for political reasons:
Former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe was the victim of a fatal gun attack while taking part in a campaign event for the House of Councillors election in Nara City on Friday. He was 67.
After being shot at around 11:30 a.m., he was confirmed dead at 5:03 p.m. at Nara Medical University Hospital in Kashihara, Nara Prefecture, where he was transported by ambulance and a medical helicopter immediately after the attack.
According to doctors, Abe suffered a wound deep enough to reach the heart, and when he was brought to the hospital, he was in cardiopulmonary arrest, making rescue quite difficult.
He had two gunshot wounds to his neck. The medical team tried to stop the bleeding and gave him a large amount of blood through transfusions, but his heartbeat did not resume, the doctors said at a press conference on Friday evening.
Police sources had earlier said Abe was shot from behind in the upper back and elsewhere. Two shots were heard, according to witnesses.
Tetsuya Yamagami, 41, of Nara City, was arrested at the scene on suspicion of attempted murder at 11:32 a.m. Yamagami is believed to have shot Abe at close range and a gun has been recovered, according to a police officer.
“I had no grudge against former Prime Minister Abe for his political beliefs,” Yamagami was quoted as telling the police during questioning, according to Nara prefectural police sources.
Yomiuri
You can read more at the link, but according to NHK they are saying Yamagami was dissatisfied with the prime minister and that is why he decided to kill him, but it was not because of his politics. Supposedly Yamagami thought Abe had ties to an organization he has a grudge against. The whole thing is bizarre which may mean this guy might just be a nut job trying to make himself famous like so many of the loser mass shooters we have in the U.S.
Shooting an unarmed man in the back is the way of a coward, not a simple lunatic.
And the fact that China celebrated this–until Beijing realized how bad that looked–implies the confession is not complete.
Follow the money.
I don’t know why anybody is shocked that someone shot Abe. That shouldn’t even be in the news.
It is clear why he was shot.
He had policies that at least half the country violently did not agree with. Instead of listening to them and perhaps coming to some kind of compromise, he passed laws that intentionally targeted them. He did this to erase their values and damage their economic standing.
So it is no surprise that somebody came up behind him and shot him.
We don’t have to approve of the assassin’s action but we really should respect that he was one of the finest actors of his generation.
I am not a fan of any politician, least of all one of the Chrysanthemum Crowd.
However, I cannot cheer a coward who was not brave enough to confront sickly, old Abe face to face.
Shooting someone in the back may be fine for a craven tool of Beijing (knowingly or not); but it’s not the way actual men resolve their differences.
This was about Taiwan.
You know why I got minus votes on my comment?
Because people are too ignorant to recognize that was about Abe Lincoln.
Sorry, CH.
Some of us at the theatre that night thought Booth an over-rated, second-rate ham.
He was less of an actor than the guy pretending to guard the President’s box that night.
At least he did “go on stage and break a leg”…
Some important facts. He was shot by a former Japanese military officer, is he also a Beijing tool? He wasn’t shot in the back, dummy. He was shot at from the back, but the shooter missed. Abe turned around, there was a long pause, and the shooter shot the second time at Abe, this time hitting him in the chest. He got two gaping holes in the chest.
Why did Abe’s security guards stand around and do nothing when the shooter missed the first shot? After the first shot, the guards should have rushed towards Abe and smothered him, while the other guards should have tackled the shooter. Instead, they just stood there and watched the whole thing. What a useless security squad, just like their hapless incompetent overrated military.
Another odd thing to watch is while they transport Abe on the medical helicopter. It was shocking to see how the chopper had to shut off its engine, and they waited for the rotating chopper blades to come full stop. In the meantime, Abe, mortally wounded is bleeding to death while this idiotic by the book Japanese manual is carried out. It’s a country full of unthinking robots. It’s no wonder why they still rely on faxes and stamps, instead of emails and internet sites. A country that’s still stuck in the 20th century, in many ways, technologically backward and getting poorer and poorer.
Sorry, Chinabots. You’re not going to get me to defend Japan.
Setnaffa, I wanted to mention, John Wilkes Booth was an INCREDIBLY famous actor… so much so that perhaps half of American households had picture(s) of him and his acting family.
It would be like Alec Baldwin shooting Trump.
Also, the media mood of the time was against Lincoln not unlike the media was (is) against Trump.
America seems crazy now… and it is… but people forget America had 5 bombings a day at the beginning of the 70s and actually made a constitutional amendment banning alcohol.
That is pretty crazy too… and America overcame.
Given what Baldwin did to his own employees, shooting Trump doesn’t sound farfetched.
And remember both Flipper and Fatty Mcgonagall was popular in America, too…