Former Japan PM Shinzo Abe has been assassinated.

[boston bean]

Very upsetting.

[sprinkleeninow]

1. It's gotten crappier and crappier all over.

[boston bean]

2. It's just getting worse everywhere.

[sprinkleeninow]

3. A feeling in my bones it will continue to...

[duckworth969]

4. Motivation? The guy is no longer PM

From the outside, that makes no sense to me.

[HipChick]

5. but still regarded as a "KingMaker"

[blogslug]

9. The killer is a 41-year old man who was once in the Japanese Navy

[malaise]

12. From thenGuardian Report

Hidetada Fukushima, professor of emergency medicine at Nara Medical University Hospital, said that Shinzo Abe sustained two wounds on front of his neck, about 5cm apart. One of the bullets penetrated the heart. He said they conducted blood transfusions but were ultimately unable to stop the bleeding.

The killer was a marksman.
Why kill a man who resigned because of ill health?

[blogslug]

16. The man is in custody

At some point soon, we will find out.

[betsuni]

15. Shooter was nutty, said it was a personal grudge not about politics.

[Raine]

6. Terrible thing to happen, people have all gone insane

everywhere.

[634-5789]

7. Harder everyday to find something uplifting. Seems the world has just gone nuts.

[malaise]

8. He resigned because of Ill health

This seems very strange to me

https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2022/jul/08/shinzo-abe-shot-live-news-former-japan-prime-minister-feared-dead-shooting-japanese-pm-attack-speech
Detailed Guardian Report

Hidetada Fukushima, professor of emergency medicine at Nara Medical University Hospital, said that Shinzo Abe sustained two wounds on front of his neck, about 5cm apart. One of the bullets penetrated the heart. He said they conducted blood transfusions but were ultimately unable to stop the bleeding.

[IcyPeas]

10. Stop the world, I wanna get off

[calimary]

17. I know how you feel.

[Peacetrain]

22. I am joining you!!

[jpak]

11. OMG !

Who did this?

This is horrible

[hlthe2b]

13. In Japan, of all places... This is so shocking. On top of all of our gun violence it just feels

so devastating. As horrific as it is anywhere, for it to happen in Japan just feels like the madness cannot be contained.

The first thing I woke up to and I find myself in tears for a person and for a country's people I have no direct connection to.

[betsuni]

14. I don't think anyone should get freaked out that this is part of a global violence trend

or anything. Shooter is nutty, said he had a personals grudge against Abe and it wasn't about politics.

[Quakerfriend]

18. So sad 😞. I will remember him most

for his eye roll at Trump.

https://m.

[CottonBear]

19. Oh no! This is awful news.

[Emile]

20. Shot by a homemade ghost gun.

[gab13by13]

21. It looked more like a homemade canon to me.