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There was more Prime Minister drama on July 8, 2022, only this time, it was in Japan. The Japanese former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe was assassinated early Friday morning in Japan while giving a speech in the Japanese city of Nara. But how? Japan has some of the strictest gun laws in the world!
First of all, who was Shinzo Abe? He was one of the best Prime Ministers Japan had ever had, from most Japanese people's standpoint, and was also their longest-serving PM, once in 2006 and then from 2012-2020. Many Japanese say he changed the face of their country, like Teddy Roosevelt or George Washington for the United States or someone like Mahatma Gandhi for India. The 67-year-old changed people's perspectives of things, and brought Japan to the high place in the economy where it is now.
But who was the shooter? Well, he was named as Tetsuya Yamagami, and the 41-year-old suspect admitted to shooting Abe because he had a grudge against a "specific organization" that Abe was connected to. He managed to get close enough to Abe to fire accurately without going through any security checks and was tackled immediately by officials.
Another thing, if Japan has very strict gun laws, then how did someone manage to sneak a gun in there? Well, here's a thing that we haven't seen much about. He shot the former PM with a handmade gun. Yamagami managed to make multiple handmade guns and shoot Abe twice in the neck, where he later died in the hospital of the injuries and heart problems connected to the shots. They later investigated his house and found a few more handmade guns and some other handmade explosives, so residents were told to evacuate the area as well. The suspect is now in custody and Japan is recovering from the loss of their former Prime Minister.
By Armaan Dhawan
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