one of the really interesting things to me is that it sounds like he didn't try to get into a shootout with police or anything. please correct me if I'm wrong, but it sounds like he killed Abe and then just surrendered.
it's hard to tell from the recordings we do have, but yeah, if the guy was planning a shoot-out, he wouldn't bring a 2-shot gun, shoot both slugs into Abe then throw it away, before promptly being tackled, didn't even bring a knife or anything; we know he had another gun that looked like it had a capacity to shoot 9 slugs, but didn't bring it
it's interesting because it suggests a very different sort of mentality than we're "used to" from events like this. like, it was very specifically an assassination and NOT terrorism.
one of the really interesting things to me is that it sounds like he didn't try to get into a shootout with police or anything. please correct me if I'm wrong, but it sounds like he killed Abe and then just surrendered.
it's hard to tell from the recordings we do have, but yeah, if the guy was planning a shoot-out, he wouldn't bring a 2-shot gun, shoot both slugs into Abe then throw it away, before promptly being tackled, didn't even bring a knife or anything; we know he had another gun that looked like it had a capacity to shoot 9 slugs, but didn't bring it
it's interesting because it suggests a very different sort of mentality than we're "used to" from events like this. like, it was very specifically an assassination and NOT terrorism.
from what i've seen of Japanese police, they don't tend to kill people if they can possibly avoid it, despite all of them having a sidearm
watched one video of a cop pulling out a baton and fighting a guy who had a big fuck off knife
in america he would have just shot the guy