Former Japanese PM Shinzo Abe's assassination has gripped a country where the gun laws are some of the strictest in the world, and gun violence is extremely rare.
, a stunning act of political violence in a country where gun laws are stringent and shootings are rare.
“There are a lot of pros and cons [about Abe], but what happened should never have happened,” Tomoko Tanaka, 50, said Friday as she was walking with her grandchild in central Tokyo. Only nine people died by guns in the country in 2018, eight of which were considered suicides or accidents, according to the World Health Organization. In 2021 there were just 10 shooting incidents,The suspect was tackled to the ground near the site where Abe was shot.“This is an incredibly low number,” said Iain Overton, author of “Gun Baby Gun”
The restrictions mean the kinds of shootings so common in the United States are vanishingly rare in a country like Japan, where the public assassination of a modern politician was inconceivable before Friday. The rarity of such attacks has seen Japan develop a culture of relative closeness between public and politician.
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