https://www3.nhk.or.jp/news/html/20220708/k10013707601000.html

You've been avenged Asanuma! DIE BITCH! :japan-cool::stalin-gun-1::stalin-gun-2:

    • Awoo [she/her]
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      2 years ago

      People on Japanese internet are saying they've examined the footage more closely and think it's 2 pipes attached to a 2x4 block of wood. Might be an improvised weapon.

      • kristina [she/her]
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        2 years ago

        yeah the video had this big smokey blast, not what a normal gun does. someone witnessing said they thought abe got shot with a firework

        • Frank [he/him, he/him]
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          2 years ago

          A pipe, some lead shot, and the innards of a bunch of fireworks will make you a passable excuse for a shotgun.

          • Mardoniush [she/her]
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            2 years ago

            Heck the Japanese made cannons from wood and they...kind of...worked. Of course like your tube of firework option there's a decent chance you'll get to fire it exactly once.

          • kristina [she/her]
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            2 years ago

            dudes probably breech loading like its the fucking 1700s and no one did anything lmao

            • Frank [he/him, he/him]
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              2 years ago

              "Reacting quickly to a shooting in a public place" is more of an American thing than a Japanese thing.

    • ComradeConnie [none/use name]
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      2 years ago

      I'll admit I'm not educated on this, but don't most Yakuza and other organized crime syndicates tend to be made up of Zainichi and Burakumin and other marginalized social groups?

      • CommCat [none/use name]
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        2 years ago

        yeah but that doesn't make them the good guys, organized criminal organizations are always rightwing and very anti communist, heck they've been used by rightwing governments to hunt down leftists. They are hyper capitalists but do it outside the law.