Former Japanese PM Abe Shinzo collapses (Shot while giving a campaign speech)

NHK ^ | 7/7/2022 | NHK

[marcusmaximus]

Former Japanese Prime Minister Abe Shinzo collapsed in the western city of Nara at around 11: 30 a.m.

Abe was making a speech on the street. An NHK reporter says Abe was bleeding. The reporter heard what sounded like a gun going off.

Former Japanese Prime Minister Abe Shinzo collapsed during a speech in the city of Nara, in western Japan. Initial reports say he may have been injured. An NHK reporter on site heard something that sounded like a gunshot, and saw Abe bleeding.

[ClayinVA]

Sawed off shotgun? That’s got to be highly illegal there. Also, that is an interesting holster.

[Tuxedo]

Shot in the back with that? Wow… it will take a miracle to survive that

[MinorityRepublican]

According to The Guardian and various other sources, Abe was making a speech on behalf of a Liberal Democratic Party candidate ahead of the upcoming upper house elections at the time of the shooting. Abe was shot up to three times from behind with a shotgun. Abe was transported to a local hospital with a chest wound, reported to have no vital signs at the hospital as of 12:07 JST. Tetsuya Yamagami, the assailant who is a 42-year-old male from Nara City, was immediately apprehended by police, according to Japanese news media.

[MinorityRepublican]

Shot in the back with that? Wow… it will take a miracle to survive that

Yeah he's dead. If not, they're going to pull the plug.

[marcusmaximus]

Improvised shotgun made out of pipes and duct tape?

[quikstrike98]

Yeah, the Japanese militarists bumped off a lot of Japanese democratic leaders in the run-up to WWII. That’s how they got control, they kept their democratic (small d) political leaders terrified, or dead.

[ClayinVA]

Double barrel zip gun? Is buckshot a thing in Japan? Did he load his own ammo as well? Japanese Security Forces are going to be losing their mind over this one.

[flaglady47]

From the pics at link, it appears that Abe’s son may have been at his side. If so, the son witnessed the assassination of his father. Hope I’m wrong, but scroll down and look at pic in link.

[CivilWarBrewing]

Two shots, first shot missed or was a malfunction, second shot struck Abe.

I smell China.

[SlipperySlope99]

This isn’t good it’s being reported, but not confirmed that Abe isn’t showing any vital signs.

[Southside_Chicago_Republican]

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[Round Earther]

It is reported that Tetsuya Yamagami was the shooter.

[NohSpinZone]

The shooting captured on video

https://twitter.com/maike809588/status/1545255792902905856?t=4yUlIDwuMspg7KOChf936w&s=19

[flaglady47]

Man, I hope Trump keeps a bullet proof vest on when campaigning for the 2024 election. This is going to make Melania very nervous about Trump running again. They hosted Abe at Mar-a-Lago and knew him personally and liked him.

[Zhang Fei]

For trauma patients, there’s a 39% lower death rate for HEMS vs ambulance transportation, according to one study:

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https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/21524205/
[The odds of death were 39% lower in those transported by HEMS compared with those transported by ground ambulance (AOR = 0.61, 95% confidence interval [CI] = 0.54-0.69). Among those aged ≥ 55 years, the odds of death were not significantly different (AOR = 0.92, 95% CI = 0.74-1.13). Among all transports, male patients had a higher odds of death (AOR = 1.23, 95% CI = 1.10-1.38) than female patients. The odds of death increased with each year of age (AOR = 1.040, 95% CI = 1.037-1.043) and each unit of ISS (AOR = 1.080, 95% CI = 1.075-1.084), and decreased with each unit of RTS (AOR = 0.46, 95% CI = 0.45-0.48). ]

[Tuxedo]

Witnesses described the weapon as a bazooka. Obviously not but definitely something odd

[Lazamataz]

Wait, what?

Japan has very severe restrictions on civilian gun ownership.

Are you trying to say that gun control does not prevent national tragedies?

[Beowulf9]

“Someone shot Abe?

My money’s on John Wilkes Booth”.

Dark moments on Fr aren’t THAT dark always, thankfully.

🤣

[Zhang Fei]

I wonder why.

Do you know where the numbers in the chart come from? I have a feeling that it combines suicide and criminal homicides. From the CDC:

From Wikipedia:

[cowboyusa]

BBCNews tweet says that he has died.