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I just watched a 9 minute video of street interviews of Japanese people responding to questions about the assasination attempt ( recorded Jan 15).
What Do Japanese Think of the Trump Assassination? (Street Interview)
As you might expect, their responses were thoughtful, varied in some respects, but uniformly against the pointless, destructive use of violence.
Two or three people noted that, "America is a gun culture," and wondered if the shooting would change Trump's stance on guns.
Several noted that President Trump and former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe got along well together, others said the assassination attempt on Trump reminded them of the assassination of Abe (July 8, 2022). I thought all who spoke of Abe did so with sadness.
When asked about Trump raising his fist, a woman noted that Japan is not a gun culture so the difference in response to the shootings was interesting.
I wondered why those saying that perhaps the shooting of Trump would change his mind about America's gun culture, didn't notice that Japan's rejection of guns didn't prevent someone from shooting Abe to death. According to Wiki, Abe's killer used an improvised gun. Japan's gun death overall, is less than 1/100th of that of the United States- I was just thinking about the assassination of leaders.
That ain’t no priest.