[proust]

To quote the Simpsons:

Leonard Nimoy: My job here is done.
Barney: What do you mean? You didn’t do anything.

[snork55]

More honor than a Uvalde police chief!

[chajin]

Common practice: when SHTF, the Big Guy resigns in order to take the shame on himself. Back in samurai=jidai, they would commit seppuku, aka harry carry, but today resigning is usually considered sufficient.

Tangent: one of the strange aspects of WWII was that Hirohito did not abdicate to take the shame for Japan’s defeat and destruction. Any other time in Japanese history, the emperor would abdicate, his son, usually too young to rule himself, would take the throne, and be a figurehead until he grew up. Hirohito, by staying emperor for another 40+ years after the war, showed how egocentric he really was—and MacArthur and Truman let him get away with it.

[SpaceBar]

Professional seppuku of sorts.

[Steve Van Doorn]

if the guards had weapons rather then shields Abe would be alive today. There was a one second time frame when they first shot missed and the second shot that killed him went off.

One second is a situation like that is eternity. They wasted their time pulling out briefcase shields rather then stopping the assassin.

[TangoLimaSierra]

This was not his fault. His body guards are totally at fault. At the first shot all his guards stood and stared at the shooter. A couple seconds later Abe turned to look and was shot. Even then it took a couple seconds for his guards to notice he was down. It was pathetic.

At least there was one guy in the crowd who held his briefcase up to try and block the second shot. His briefcase was hit (and maybe his hand) but it didn't help.

[Honest Nigerian]

A little more honourable than that effduck in Uvalde.