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Posted on: September 26, 2024

[ARCHIVED] 'Culturally Unfathomable'

An assassin, using a homemade gun, murdered Japan's former prime minister Shinzo Abe in 2022. In a nation where people "take peace for granted" and the firearm homicide rate is near world-low 0.005 per 100,000 such a crime is "culturally unfathomable."