This is F’d up. As bad as it gets.
Yeah it’s horrific.
No one should have this happen, of course, but to see it happen to someone who seems as nice of a person (my opinion) as Abe seems to be makes it only worse.
I really liked him and his wife.
I think after Hinkley/Reagan security started getting a lot tighter for US presidents. Probably time for Japan (and the rest of the world) to do the same for candidates and officeholders.
This attack reminds me of the near-fatal stabbing of candidate Bolsanaro a few years back in Brazil. Just nuts.
Footage of the former Prime Minister of Japan, Shinzo Abe, being shot at from behind