Shinzo Abe, Japan’s former prime minister, dies after being shot

The Guardian ^ | 8 July 2022 | Staff

[SauronOfMordor]

[[Japan has ammo and gunpowder control as well.]]

Japanese like fireworks. Disassemble a few, and you have black powder. An electric spark can replace need for primer.

And if he’s ex-military, he may have had counter insurgency training regarding improvised weapons and explosives

[Ikeon]

It's not that simple. You could blow yourself up if you get the wrong proportions. do you even know what saltpeter is and where you can by it otc? In Japan?

the fireworks powder sounds smarter and easier.

[Flint]

A battery and spark plug will set off black powder.

[BradyLS]

All maksed up against the ‘rona, too.

[M1903A1]

Was he also tied to the quantitative easing by the BoJ and “public works” stimulus projects that have left Japan’s economy moribund for years?

I’m wondering if this guy had a lost business or savings, or some other personal axe to grind. Supposedly he’s a Maritime SDF veteran.

[mware]

He was an arch conservative and favored a change in their constitution to protect Japan from N. Korea and China. Japan can not declare war on any nation according to it. Could be enemies on all sides.

[JME_FAN]

Peculiar it is that, of all the world’s national leaders who have offered their condolences, two are glaringly absent - Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping. File the observation under “Things that make you go hmm.”

[FarCenter]

Abe murder suspect quit most recent job after he felt ‘tired'

https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2022/07/08/national/crime-legal/shinzo-abe-murder-suspect-tetsuya-yamagami/

https://cdn-japantimes.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/np_file_169562.jpeg for full resolution.

[janetjanet998]

New Video front view
Shinzo Abe Japan’s former prime minister shot when he was speaking public. Assassination
https://rumble.com/v1bixyx-shinzo-abe-japans-former-prime-minister-shot-when-he-was-speaking-public.-a.html?mref=kkgl3&mrefc=2

[RayChuang88]

You wonder if this was a political “hit” from the Chinese, North Koreans or a three-letter Federal agency. 😒😑🙄

[2harddrive]

“Very few guns in Japan, Homemade shotgun. Where’d he get the shells?”

From the huge cloud of smoke, it looks like it was straight black powder, probably also homemade. But he could also have made it from disassembled fireworks.

[ecomcon]

At least they were masked up and super safe.

[ELS]

I expect that the conspiracy theories will start soon.

[JME_FAN]

When I was a kid, I made gunpowder and fireworks often. Drove my mother nuts, she often yelling that I was gonna “blow up the house.” Sulfur and Potassium Nitrate (salt peter) were easily purchased, and my father always had charcoal briquetts ... I would crush the charcoal into a fine talcum-like powder ... Did that one time in the basement, where my mom had just hung freshly washed white sheets to dry ... Man, was she pissed!

I discovered that it is more important to get the individual ingredients ground as fine as possible, else - even if you have the correct mix ratios - you’ll have poor results.

So, we had an old gas stove in the basement, where one side had burners, and the other half had a cast iron top, with concentric round plates of decreasing size, with slots, that you could remove with a lifer tool. We typically had that stove lit to help keep the basement dry, even during the summer.

I had a steel cased ballpoint pen, to which I removed the internals, leaving just the hollow steel jacket. I filled this with my mixture of homemade gunpowder, then used the pocket clip to brace it on top of one of the removable plates on the stove, having the writing tip end buried in the lifting slot.

I crouched down in front of the stove, waiting for my “rocket” pen to “launch” .... 1 minute, 2, 3, 5 minutes ... Nothing! I kept sticking my head up above the stove to view what was going on. At about the sixth minute, just seconds after ducking back down, the thing went off with a loud bang! It punched a hole through the nearby door that led to the bulkhead stairs out of the basement.

My mom was right - “One of these days you’re gonna blow up the house!”

[Pikachu_Dad]

Got it from the Gorn who fought with Kirk.

[JME_FAN]

They need to ban steel pipe and duct tape too!

[JME_FAN]

However, DICK’S will continue to push LGBTQXYZ propaganda on the kiddies ... Sodomites never stop looking for innocent flesh to violate, and the youger the conquest, the bigger the thrill.

[ELS]

Let's try that, again. Part of my previous reply was cut off. Not sure why.

I expect that the conspiracy theories will start soon.

Yeah, but he was no longer in power. Why get rid of him now?

[mowowie]

I bet model rocket igniters would work.
Bet you could use the motors as well...

[JME_FAN]

Because the border situation will be much more of an adventure when the Chi-com and Russian military cross our southern, northern, eastern and western borders. That is, after they nuke us into oblivion. Isolationism did not work for America in 1941 - and its practice will do us no favors in the 21st century either.