{"id":36518,"date":"2022-07-08T10:12:38","date_gmt":"2022-07-08T15:12:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=36518"},"modified":"2022-07-08T10:12:38","modified_gmt":"2022-07-08T15:12:38","slug":"shinzo-abe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2022\/07\/08\/shinzo-abe\/","title":{"rendered":"Shinzo Abe"},"content":{"rendered":"

The assassination of former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe will no doubt stir up the far-right for at least a dozen reasons. The gun-rights absolustists<\/del> absolutists (make of that typo what you will, which I’ve left in on purpose) should probably quit the hyperventilating, though, as CNN<\/strong><\/em> notes<\/a>:<\/p>\n

[The assassin] used a homemade gun in the shooting, and authorities confiscated several handmade pistol-like items from his apartment, police said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Due to stringent gun control, as you can find at the same link, this disgruntled person was forced to make his own gun. Police haven’t said, but I doubt it was useful for more than a couple of shots.<\/p>\n

Incidentally, in the recent past attempted Japanese political assassinations have involved the use of swords<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Do Japanese gun control laws work?<\/p>\n

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Gun violence is extremely rare in Japan.<\/p>\n

In 2018, Japan, a country of 125 million people, only reported\u00a0nine deaths<\/a>\u00a0from firearms \u2014 compared with\u00a039,740<\/a> that year in the United States.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Measuring the non-existent is always a tricky business, but the numbers are noteworthy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The assassination of former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe will no doubt stir up the far-right for at least a dozen reasons. The gun-rights absolustists absolutists (make of that typo what you will, which I’ve left in on purpose) should probably quit the hyperventilating, though, as CNN notes: [The assassin] \u2026 Continue reading → <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36518","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36518","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36518"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36518\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36519,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36518\/revisions\/36519"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}