WEBVTT - CZM Rewind: Shinzo Abe, the World's Most Assassinated Man 0:00:00.160 --> 0:00:02.760 Welcome to take it Happened here a podcast that is 0:00:03.000 --> 0:00:06.480 not happening this week because we are on vacation, so 0:00:06.880 --> 0:00:12.120 instead of normal episodes, you are getting this. And this 0:00:12.560 --> 0:00:16.880 is our immediate reaction to the assassination of Shinzo Abbe, 0:00:16.960 --> 0:00:20.880 which has turned out to be maybe the most successful 0:00:20.880 --> 0:00:23.279 modern political assassination, at least, at the very least the 0:00:23.320 --> 0:00:26.599 most successful modern political assassination that wasn't carried out with 0:00:26.640 --> 0:00:30.240 the CIA. Now, one thing to keep in mind is 0:00:30.760 --> 0:00:35.160 we recorded this episode before it was formerly known that 0:00:36.000 --> 0:00:40.720 the reason that Abe was killed by the electric blunderbuss 0:00:41.680 --> 0:00:45.280 was because of his connections to the Unification Church. Next week, 0:00:45.320 --> 0:00:49.199 actually we are going to be getting more into that 0:00:49.320 --> 0:00:52.479 side of things. But yeah, have fun with our initial 0:00:52.479 --> 0:00:57.520 reaction and much rejoicing at one of the most dogshit 0:00:57.600 --> 0:01:06.679 people who was alive, who is no longer alive. Welcome 0:01:06.720 --> 0:01:09.080 to it can happen Here. A podcaster that, for the 0:01:09.120 --> 0:01:12.880 first time ever, is being recorded on an Earth that 0:01:13.000 --> 0:01:15.119 I no longer have to share with that fascist rat 0:01:15.120 --> 0:01:19.200 bastard Chinzhwabe and with with me, with me to celebrate 0:01:19.240 --> 0:01:24.680 this occasion is Garrison Davis. Hi, Hello, and James, have 0:01:25.040 --> 0:01:28.760 we actually, have we like introduced you, introduced you yet. 0:01:29.520 --> 0:01:31.520 I didn't think so, No, I just pop up talking 0:01:31.560 --> 0:01:34.600 about three D printed guns and people who hate butterflies. 0:01:35.520 --> 0:01:39.000 Yeah, yeah, this is This is truly a dark day 0:01:39.040 --> 0:01:44.960 for democracy. I'm saddened by the horrible loss of a 0:01:45.000 --> 0:01:52.200 great leader, a hero to feminism and women, and I 0:01:52.240 --> 0:01:55.040 guess a hero to those who defend war crimes. 0:01:55.400 --> 0:01:59.840 So I guess before we've heard before, before we get 0:01:59.840 --> 0:02:01.720 into one of the funniest things that has happened in 0:02:01.760 --> 0:02:04.560 maybe twenty years, James, do you want to like talk 0:02:04.560 --> 0:02:07.040 about who you are because you are now one of 0:02:07.120 --> 0:02:08.720 us and I'm really excited about it. 0:02:09.480 --> 0:02:12.800 Yeah, I'm one of Yeah, I'm now a podcast. Yeah. 0:02:12.840 --> 0:02:13.440 So who I am? 0:02:14.000 --> 0:02:20.400 I am a journalist, I guess, and a historian. I 0:02:20.440 --> 0:02:22.680 wrote a book about the first week of the Spanish 0:02:22.680 --> 0:02:25.880 Civil War, and my PhD is in the history of 0:02:25.880 --> 0:02:31.639 international anti fascism, building international anti fascist alliances through physical culture, 0:02:32.280 --> 0:02:36.080 which is very nerdy. But yeah, I love that stuff 0:02:36.520 --> 0:02:38.919 with US and British if that had not been made 0:02:38.960 --> 0:02:43.840 abundantly clear by my accent. And I live in southern California. 0:02:43.040 --> 0:02:47.840 Which means this is now. This episode is a Majority 0:02:47.919 --> 0:02:49.320 Commonwealth episode. 0:02:49.440 --> 0:02:52.760 Yeah, that's right, really exciting. We made it. 0:02:54.240 --> 0:02:56.360 Yeah, we'll be doing the national anthem in a minute 0:02:56.360 --> 0:02:58.560 here and we'll all just stand up. 0:03:00.760 --> 0:03:05.640 So ex Prime Minister kind of he's not around anymore, 0:03:05.680 --> 0:03:07.520 is he? No? 0:03:07.720 --> 0:03:11.720 He is dead as fuck? So all right we should 0:03:11.720 --> 0:03:16.440 I get I guess we should explain who shinzo Abe is. Okay, 0:03:16.440 --> 0:03:19.440 if if you want a really really long account of 0:03:19.600 --> 0:03:23.839 what the Japanese Liberal Democratic Party is, because they are 0:03:24.000 --> 0:03:28.600 some of the worst people who've ever existed democratic Yeah, 0:03:30.120 --> 0:03:34.000 how can this be? So the very short version of 0:03:34.040 --> 0:03:36.640 this is that the Liberal Democratic Party is a party 0:03:36.680 --> 0:03:38.880 that was founded by Nobusuke Kishi, who is one of 0:03:38.960 --> 0:03:43.040 history's worst war criminals, like personally responsible for enslaving hundreds 0:03:43.040 --> 0:03:46.280 of thousands of people in China. He's the guy who 0:03:46.400 --> 0:03:48.320 basically he's the guy who was in charge of the 0:03:48.320 --> 0:03:51.600 economy of the fascist war machine, like like in Japan 0:03:51.720 --> 0:03:55.720 World War two. He was the guy who ran like 0:03:55.760 --> 0:03:58.760 the sort of fascist puppet state called Manchuqua that was 0:03:59.680 --> 0:04:05.120 run by Japan after they conquered it. Real war criminal 0:04:05.240 --> 0:04:09.560 also just like personally raped a like extremely large number 0:04:09.560 --> 0:04:12.000 of people. I think that like I was almost never 0:04:12.040 --> 0:04:13.400 discussed when people talk about him. 0:04:13.640 --> 0:04:19.000 Yeahs almost like like a shockingly high flight number. Yeah, 0:04:19.279 --> 0:04:22.080 it's of sex crimes. It's wild. 0:04:22.279 --> 0:04:25.040 Yeah, and he's also mean. He's involved with the Japanese 0:04:25.120 --> 0:04:27.280 military sex slave program, which you will here referred to 0:04:27.320 --> 0:04:30.080 as comfort women. And I refuse to call the comfort 0:04:30.120 --> 0:04:34.279 women because that is a fucking horrifying euphemism for again, 0:04:34.360 --> 0:04:37.600 a program of military sex slavery. Uh. He also was 0:04:37.600 --> 0:04:40.040 one of the people who signed off on Unit seven 0:04:40.120 --> 0:04:43.200 thirty one, which was Japan's chemical weapons testing unit where 0:04:43.200 --> 0:04:47.159 they fucking like purposely invested in infected and tested chemical 0:04:47.200 --> 0:04:48.800 weapons on prisoners. 0:04:49.120 --> 0:04:49.320 Uh. 0:04:50.560 --> 0:04:53.039 Yeah, he's one of the worst people ever. And then 0:04:53.160 --> 0:04:55.320 he got a bunch of CIA backing into backing from 0:04:55.320 --> 0:04:57.360 the yakuza because the CIA is working with the yakuza 0:04:57.360 --> 0:05:02.920 on early fifty and she's able basically to force all 0:05:02.960 --> 0:05:07.040 of the other conservative like people to join his party, 0:05:07.160 --> 0:05:09.159 and the sort of the merger of the of the 0:05:09.160 --> 0:05:11.560 Liberal Party, Liberal Party and the Democratic Party is now 0:05:11.560 --> 0:05:14.640 the Liberal Democratic Party. This is Kishi's party. He founded it, 0:05:15.200 --> 0:05:17.719 he drags everyone else into it. He does an immense 0:05:17.760 --> 0:05:20.000 amount of corruption. He tries to bring fascist m back. 0:05:20.440 --> 0:05:25.280 He narrowly fails. Shinzo Abe is his grandson. Uh the 0:05:25.400 --> 0:05:28.920 LDP Liberal Democratic Party, Yeah has Yeah, it sucks. It's 0:05:28.920 --> 0:05:31.840 like like the way that I've been thinking about, like 0:05:31.839 --> 0:05:33.440 how do you explain this to people who don't who 0:05:33.600 --> 0:05:36.360 don't have like a background in like Japanese like war 0:05:36.400 --> 0:05:39.440 crime stuff. Is like imagine if like one of Hitler's 0:05:39.480 --> 0:05:42.719 generals had like survived World War Two and then the 0:05:42.760 --> 0:05:45.880 CIA made him made him the fucking prime Minister of Germany, 0:05:45.920 --> 0:05:46.600 and then. 0:05:46.800 --> 0:05:50.840 And he got more fascist because people were saying mean 0:05:50.880 --> 0:05:53.000 things about his grandpa. He's like, oh, I don't like 0:05:53.000 --> 0:05:55.280 that they're calling him bad names. I'm going to get 0:05:55.400 --> 0:05:56.400 more fascist now. 0:05:56.600 --> 0:06:01.320 So like Abbe, Abbe himself, he he's carried he's been 0:06:01.320 --> 0:06:03.880 carrying out a lot of the same things that that 0:06:04.040 --> 0:06:05.960 Kishi was trying to do. Kishi was trying to sort 0:06:06.000 --> 0:06:08.560 of restore the sort of full fascist power of the police. 0:06:09.440 --> 0:06:11.279 Abe has been doing a whole bunch of shifts of 0:06:11.320 --> 0:06:14.880 centralizing power in the executive and expatting the police's power 0:06:14.920 --> 0:06:18.920 to just arrest whoever the fuck they want. So one 0:06:18.920 --> 0:06:20.640 of one of the other things about Japan is that 0:06:20.839 --> 0:06:22.960 like legally in their constitution, they can't go to war, 0:06:23.720 --> 0:06:26.880 and like both Kishi and Abbe like this is like 0:06:27.000 --> 0:06:29.000 they're big fucking things that they want. They want to 0:06:29.000 --> 0:06:30.840 fully re armed Japan. They want Japan to be able 0:06:30.880 --> 0:06:32.719 to go to war because they want to do the 0:06:32.720 --> 0:06:36.720 fucking empire again. And you know, so this is like, yeah, 0:06:36.720 --> 0:06:41.800 Abe has been doing that. He also the thing he's 0:06:41.800 --> 0:06:45.200 probably most famous for in terms of like the reasons 0:06:45.240 --> 0:06:48.080 people think he's bad because he is he's like just 0:06:48.240 --> 0:06:53.640 actually a monster. Is he's just like a like unfathomable 0:06:53.680 --> 0:06:57.040 degree of war crimes denial, like he pulled. So Japan 0:06:57.120 --> 0:07:01.080 in the nineties had admitted that they fucking kidnap enslaved 0:07:01.520 --> 0:07:04.680 like an enormous number of people from of people from Korea, 0:07:04.760 --> 0:07:07.200 people from China, and I think they also did they 0:07:07.200 --> 0:07:09.360 did in the Philippines and Indonesia too, although there's less 0:07:09.360 --> 0:07:12.040 sort of coverage of that, and like turn them into 0:07:12.080 --> 0:07:14.200 military sex slaves, did things to them that are like 0:07:15.560 --> 0:07:20.720 a fucking unspeakable And so the Japanese government the nineties 0:07:20.720 --> 0:07:22.680 had admitted they did this and apologized for it, and 0:07:22.920 --> 0:07:26.200 Abe was like, no, fuck that, that's that's wrong. He's 0:07:26.200 --> 0:07:29.920 also a part of this group called Nipon Kagai, which 0:07:29.960 --> 0:07:31.720 is like a fascist group. And okay, so this is 0:07:31.800 --> 0:07:35.120 this is this is according to a US congressional report, 0:07:35.200 --> 0:07:38.560 what they believe, quote Japan should be applauded for liberating 0:07:38.640 --> 0:07:41.320 much of East Asia from western colonial powers, that the 0:07:41.400 --> 0:07:44.320 nineteen forty six nineteen forty eight Tokyo War crimes tribunals 0:07:44.320 --> 0:07:47.480 were illegitimate, and that the killings by Japanese troops through 0:07:47.480 --> 0:07:50.960 the nineteen thirty seven Nanjing massacre were exaggerated or fabricated. 0:07:51.280 --> 0:07:54.480 Oh boy. They also openly yeah, yeah, yeah, they also 0:07:54.480 --> 0:07:57.960 so they're nudging denialists there there, they're sex slave denihilists. 0:07:58.880 --> 0:08:01.200 They openly call for the restoration of the monarchy and 0:08:01.320 --> 0:08:05.720 the institution of Shinto as a state religion. Abbe like 0:08:06.040 --> 0:08:09.840 abi like has continuously said that uh, the sex slaves 0:08:10.160 --> 0:08:13.640 like did it, We're like did where they're voluntarily does 0:08:13.680 --> 0:08:14.160 another thing? 0:08:14.760 --> 0:08:19.520 But but but but Hillary Clinton just tweeted that was 0:08:19.560 --> 0:08:22.680 a champion of democracy and a firm believer that no economy, society, 0:08:22.720 --> 0:08:24.880 or country can achieve its full potential if you leave 0:08:24.960 --> 0:08:25.680 women behind. 0:08:26.680 --> 0:08:30.840 Why you know, to be fair, to be fair, to 0:08:31.000 --> 0:08:34.840 be fair. Both Abbe and No she did, in fact 0:08:34.960 --> 0:08:37.400 believe in using women to fuel the economy, just not 0:08:37.760 --> 0:08:38.720 in that way. 0:08:39.080 --> 0:08:39.480 Yeah. 0:08:40.160 --> 0:08:42.599 He Also there's there's another thing that so probably the 0:08:42.760 --> 0:08:45.520 most like famous, most controversial thing was. So there's the 0:08:45.640 --> 0:08:49.720 shrine called the Yasukuni Shrine, which is is the shrine 0:08:49.720 --> 0:08:52.280 that's dedicated to soldiers who like died serving the Japanese 0:08:52.320 --> 0:08:56.440 emperor and in in this so there's this thing called 0:08:56.480 --> 0:08:58.480 the Book of Souls that has like lists of names, 0:08:58.800 --> 0:09:02.400 right of just like the people who died, and one 0:09:02.440 --> 0:09:05.319 thousand and sixty eight of the people who were of 0:09:05.400 --> 0:09:07.840 the people in that book are people who were convicted 0:09:07.880 --> 0:09:11.040 of war crimes. And there are also fourteen Class A 0:09:11.160 --> 0:09:13.520 war criminals who either died or were executed who are 0:09:13.559 --> 0:09:16.319 considered martyrs. There and Abbe fucking like visited there and 0:09:16.440 --> 0:09:21.079 like braid and shit, and this pissed off everyone. This 0:09:21.200 --> 0:09:22.800 is like, there are lots of people who have gotten 0:09:22.800 --> 0:09:25.760 mad at me already for celebrating Abbe's death. And my 0:09:26.679 --> 0:09:28.439 official line on this is, if Abbe didn't want me 0:09:28.480 --> 0:09:30.720 to celebrate his fucking death, maybe he shouldn't have celebrated 0:09:30.760 --> 0:09:32.880 the lives of people who killed my fucking family. So 0:09:33.440 --> 0:09:38.559 fuck them. Yeah, so he's not a great dude. He 0:09:38.640 --> 0:09:43.320 is real pack and automatic dude. So the other thing 0:09:43.320 --> 0:09:45.520 we should mention too before we go into sort of 0:09:45.640 --> 0:09:48.199 like the details of the shooting is that there is 0:09:48.240 --> 0:09:51.720 an election. Actually, by by the time this episode drops, 0:09:51.960 --> 0:09:57.319 I think the election will have happened where there is 0:09:57.440 --> 0:10:00.400 a real chance that the Liberal Democratic Party is going 0:10:00.480 --> 0:10:02.839 to sort of like just fucking sweep it. Because the 0:10:02.840 --> 0:10:05.319 Liberal Democratic Party immediately starts to blame me the left 0:10:05.360 --> 0:10:07.439 for this. There's a whole bunch of, i mean, just 0:10:07.840 --> 0:10:11.360 absolutely horrifying stuff where they're blaming Korean people who live 0:10:11.440 --> 0:10:14.240 in uh, live in Japan, which, if you know anything 0:10:14.240 --> 0:10:18.000 about Japanese history, when that stuff starts happening, like in 0:10:18.520 --> 0:10:21.280 ninte twenty three after the Canto earthquake, a bunch of 0:10:21.320 --> 0:10:23.559 people just started blaming Koreans for the whole thing, and 0:10:23.720 --> 0:10:27.199 they fucking literally exterminated almost the entire Korean population in 0:10:27.320 --> 0:10:31.360 several major Japanese cities. And so this stuff is very scary. Uh, 0:10:32.200 --> 0:10:34.480 it's possible that this is going to set off like 0:10:34.960 --> 0:10:38.640 an incredible right wing lursy Japanese politics, and there's a 0:10:39.000 --> 0:10:42.559 chance that this could be the actual thing that like 0:10:43.559 --> 0:10:46.559 full on triggers Japan like re arming and you know, 0:10:46.640 --> 0:10:48.800 going back into sort of just being a pure fascist empire. 0:10:48.960 --> 0:10:51.839 So this is not Yeah, that part is really bad. 0:10:52.440 --> 0:10:55.520 The motivation for the assassination is still, at least at 0:10:55.600 --> 0:10:59.600 time of recording, is still slightly unclear, very unclear. According 0:10:59.760 --> 0:11:02.839 according to some politicians and news media, we do know 0:11:02.920 --> 0:11:06.800 the suspect is Hdeo Kajima, so that you can you 0:11:06.840 --> 0:11:11.080 can infer a little bit based on So yeah, there's 0:11:11.559 --> 0:11:15.559 there's like French politicians and a Greek news channel who 0:11:15.559 --> 0:11:21.280 are using pictures of video developer Hideo Kajima and passing 0:11:21.320 --> 0:11:25.960 them off as the shooting suspect, which is really funny. 0:11:28.320 --> 0:11:32.400 Pictures of Kajima like inside like a Russian like communist 0:11:32.520 --> 0:11:35.920 hat fucking thing, pictures of him wearing a joker shirt 0:11:36.320 --> 0:11:40.040 and standing in front of a Jakobara picture, and they're 0:11:40.120 --> 0:11:43.040 using this as proof that it's by a left wing 0:11:43.240 --> 0:11:49.120 terrorist and it's actually video game developer Kajima's. 0:11:50.760 --> 0:11:55.040 So away, like, I guess what we know about the 0:11:55.200 --> 0:11:58.720 actual shooter. We don't know that much. Is a forty 0:11:58.720 --> 0:12:01.280 two year old guy who was a a former veteran 0:12:01.360 --> 0:12:03.839 of the of the the Japanese Self Defense Force. He was. 0:12:03.880 --> 0:12:06.840 He was a Navy guy, which I guess partially explains 0:12:07.559 --> 0:12:13.120 why he can shoot a gun. But yeah, the details 0:12:13.120 --> 0:12:16.000 are really murky. What we've got at time of recording 0:12:16.440 --> 0:12:18.719 is the Japanese police saying that it wasn't because of 0:12:18.760 --> 0:12:21.280 a political thing, and that it was because of a 0:12:21.360 --> 0:12:24.040 group that he was that Abe was a member of. 0:12:24.240 --> 0:12:26.199 Who the fuck knows what that means. That can mean 0:12:26.280 --> 0:12:29.920 any number of things. I'm not going to speculate live 0:12:30.000 --> 0:12:33.000 on here because I I don't know. 0:12:34.840 --> 0:12:39.720 Yeah, but also, it was extremely funny and we should 0:12:39.840 --> 0:12:43.319 we should talk about the weapon that was This is why. 0:12:43.679 --> 0:12:45.400 This is one of the reasons why it's extremely funny 0:12:45.679 --> 0:12:46.480 and we should. 0:12:46.760 --> 0:12:49.040 I'm probably gonna hand this over to James because James 0:12:49.120 --> 0:12:51.439 is a bit a bit more of an expert in 0:12:51.559 --> 0:12:55.760 this type of uh di i Y weaponry. 0:12:56.720 --> 0:13:00.439 So what great, What the fuck is going off with 0:13:00.520 --> 0:13:04.319 this homemade gun? Yeah? This ship? Yeah, this ship is 0:13:04.400 --> 0:13:06.000 fucking this ship. This is crazy. 0:13:08.559 --> 0:13:11.640 Yeah, it's extremely funny. It's extremely funny that all these 0:13:11.679 --> 0:13:14.600 people with fifty thousands followers on Twitter who quote unquote 0:13:14.679 --> 0:13:18.400 do ocean like immediately label this is a three D 0:13:18.480 --> 0:13:19.480 printed gun, which it's not. 0:13:20.000 --> 0:13:23.880 It does not printed. This gun is being held together 0:13:23.920 --> 0:13:27.040 with duct tape like that is that that is the 0:13:27.120 --> 0:13:28.719 kind of weapon that we're dealing with you. This is 0:13:28.800 --> 0:13:32.120 this is a homemade gun, like held together with fucking 0:13:32.200 --> 0:13:35.040 duct tape. It is extremely It is like he got 0:13:35.080 --> 0:13:37.000 blown up by an electric blunderbuss. 0:13:37.120 --> 0:13:40.319 It is. Yeah, it's like there could very well be 0:13:40.360 --> 0:13:42.439 three D printed parts in like around it. 0:13:42.600 --> 0:13:43.319 But it is. 0:13:43.800 --> 0:13:45.920 But it's not it's not looking it's it's it's not 0:13:46.080 --> 0:13:47.920 like it's not like an f juicy United or anything. 0:13:49.040 --> 0:13:53.880 It's it's a weird like electronic pipe duct taped together 0:13:54.160 --> 0:13:54.760 shot gun. 0:13:55.520 --> 0:13:58.160 Yeah, it's I think perhaps if people don't understand, we 0:13:58.160 --> 0:14:01.079 should like break down how fire around work broadly and 0:14:01.200 --> 0:14:05.559 then how this one works specifically. Right, So, like, and 0:14:05.840 --> 0:14:07.520 there's no reason why you should be familiar with this, 0:14:07.679 --> 0:14:09.920 but like you need something to explode, something to make 0:14:10.000 --> 0:14:12.120 it explode, and something to go out the end, and 0:14:12.240 --> 0:14:14.280 a way to make sure it only goes in one direction. Right, 0:14:16.120 --> 0:14:19.640 So what this character has done is seemingly it's yeah, 0:14:19.680 --> 0:14:22.840 it's like a blunderbuss or a musket in that it 0:14:22.880 --> 0:14:26.400 seems to be like muzzle loaded from the front and 0:14:28.040 --> 0:14:29.680 I'm looking at it now and it really is just 0:14:29.800 --> 0:14:33.200 covered in duct tape. I tweeted a picture of it. 0:14:34.000 --> 0:14:37.160 It's agay. Yeah, this shit is is very old fashioned. 0:14:37.440 --> 0:14:39.200 He seems to have made his own powder too, like 0:14:39.240 --> 0:14:41.240 it was very very smoky, which you can do. I'm 0:14:41.240 --> 0:14:42.200 not going to tell you how to do it, but 0:14:43.000 --> 0:14:47.080 it's the thing that is possible. And so essentially from 0:14:47.120 --> 0:14:49.400 what I'm seeing here, it looks like it's like a 0:14:49.480 --> 0:14:53.320 piezo electric ignition which then ignites this homemade powder that 0:14:53.400 --> 0:14:59.120 he had, and then he's put something in a shotgun, 0:14:59.200 --> 0:15:01.480 means it doesn't have fling right, so it doesn't spin 0:15:01.560 --> 0:15:05.200 on the projectile. So he's basically got two pipes, a 0:15:05.320 --> 0:15:08.960 Pizzo electric igniter, some homemade powder, and then he could 0:15:09.000 --> 0:15:10.600 have put nails in there. He could have put a 0:15:10.680 --> 0:15:13.080 cast lead ball, anything, bolts. 0:15:14.280 --> 0:15:18.240 And this wasn't the only homemade weapon he had. The 0:15:18.400 --> 0:15:21.800 police raided his house, he had a whole bunch of 0:15:21.960 --> 0:15:25.720 supplies that looks it looks out of like it looks 0:15:25.760 --> 0:15:27.600 like it's out of like fallout or something. It is 0:15:28.160 --> 0:15:31.800 like there was one like Blunderbust that had nine different 0:15:31.960 --> 0:15:37.720 barrels all duct taped together. It's like exposed wiring, exposed 0:15:37.800 --> 0:15:42.080 circuit boards, like it's it's like it's extremely janky. 0:15:43.920 --> 0:15:47.720 Yeah, it's like I'm not entirely sure that the nine 0:15:47.800 --> 0:15:50.720 barrel one, the central barrel isn't touched by the by 0:15:50.800 --> 0:15:53.120 the structural duct tape, and I'm not sure that it 0:15:53.120 --> 0:15:55.280 wouldn't have moved in one direction or the other. 0:15:55.240 --> 0:15:55.960 When he fired it. 0:15:56.840 --> 0:16:00.640 Really, yeah, I think that's a there's like a yoga 0:16:00.960 --> 0:16:02.920 I can't see what he's put something on that. He's 0:16:02.960 --> 0:16:04.880 made a butt stock with that one, so like he 0:16:04.920 --> 0:16:07.240 can shoulder it, I guess. And I don't know if 0:16:07.240 --> 0:16:11.080 that's like a piece of tire or what. But yeah, yeah, 0:16:11.160 --> 0:16:13.800 this is not a precision weapon wooden boards. 0:16:14.640 --> 0:16:17.440 There's like some type of like reflect it looks almost 0:16:17.440 --> 0:16:19.560 like a smartphone's attached to some of the wiring or 0:16:21.760 --> 0:16:25.120 there's something reflective screen that looks like it's like like 0:16:25.200 --> 0:16:27.360 an electronic control box, which could could just be like 0:16:27.360 --> 0:16:28.520 an old smartphone or something. 0:16:29.440 --> 0:16:31.640 Yeah, I wondered if he could, because that's what you 0:16:31.760 --> 0:16:34.600 use for for an improvised explosive device, right, it's a 0:16:35.000 --> 0:16:36.800 it's a cell phone to actuate it, So it could 0:16:36.840 --> 0:16:38.400 be maybe he had a plan to just put it 0:16:38.600 --> 0:16:40.640 near where are they was going to be and then call. 0:16:40.560 --> 0:16:42.080 It and then have it. 0:16:43.280 --> 0:16:46.040 That would be well, I mean, no, this is a 0:16:46.720 --> 0:16:49.040 this is a much better It has the stock, so 0:16:49.160 --> 0:16:51.920 I'm guessing I'm guessing being to hold it because otherwise 0:16:51.960 --> 0:16:53.400 there's no reason to put the buttstock there. 0:16:54.600 --> 0:16:57.200 Yeah, but who knows, Like this guy's operating on a 0:16:57.240 --> 0:16:57.880 different level. 0:16:58.040 --> 0:17:02.160 We have no way to what he was thinking, at 0:17:02.240 --> 0:17:04.200 least at least at least not at the moment. 0:17:04.880 --> 0:17:06.800 What he was thinking was I want to kill shinzo 0:17:06.840 --> 0:17:08.360 Abbe with my pipes and planks. 0:17:09.720 --> 0:17:12.760 He did it. He's exactly whatever you think of him. 0:17:12.840 --> 0:17:15.760 This man did successfully kill shinzo Abbey with a gun 0:17:15.840 --> 0:17:19.440 held together by duct tape. It's yeah, pretty impressive, Like 0:17:19.520 --> 0:17:21.400 I think the everything about this is kind of impressive, 0:17:21.400 --> 0:17:24.000 is a he so so he there were there were 0:17:24.040 --> 0:17:27.080 two barrels on it that each fired, and he he 0:17:27.240 --> 0:17:29.920 managed to hit him from like a pretty good distance away. 0:17:30.640 --> 0:17:32.960 Like we don't have there's there's no video of that directly, 0:17:32.960 --> 0:17:34.800 well at least not that's out yet that like directly 0:17:34.880 --> 0:17:36.280 shows the shooter. But we have a lot of video 0:17:36.280 --> 0:17:38.639 because Abbe is giving a speech, right, so we have 0:17:38.680 --> 0:17:41.240 a bunch of video of like filming Abbe and it's 0:17:41.480 --> 0:17:44.440 and because of where it is coming from off screen, 0:17:44.520 --> 0:17:46.920 like that was a pretty good distance. And as best 0:17:47.000 --> 0:17:48.800 I can tell, he only hit Abe. I don't I 0:17:48.800 --> 0:17:50.520 don't think. I haven't seen any reports of anyone else 0:17:50.520 --> 0:17:53.920 getting hit, So I yeah, impressive. 0:17:53.920 --> 0:17:56.280 That is Actually that is actually kind of slightly surprising. 0:17:56.600 --> 0:17:58.920 Yeah, there was. There was no one else hit. It's 0:17:59.000 --> 0:18:02.280 like he just the guy he was. That is that 0:18:02.440 --> 0:18:04.280 is genuinely pretty rare and assassinated. 0:18:04.280 --> 0:18:08.200 But like like basically like a homemade blunderbust cannon was 0:18:08.280 --> 0:18:11.760 like surprisingly surprisingly controlled, it accurate. 0:18:12.600 --> 0:18:14.960 Yeah, I've just found a picture of it with the 0:18:15.359 --> 0:18:19.440 Cyberpunk twenty twenty seventy seven logo underneath it, which is 0:18:19.480 --> 0:18:20.000 pretty great. 0:18:21.520 --> 0:18:23.440 Rules, yeah, it does. 0:18:23.560 --> 0:18:26.240 Rule. Yeah, he did manage to cause it kind of 0:18:26.320 --> 0:18:29.320 just put like a large, massive lead ball in it, 0:18:29.520 --> 0:18:33.000 I guess, and yeah whatever, because I don't think it. 0:18:33.920 --> 0:18:35.800 I don't think it was one thing. So one of 0:18:36.040 --> 0:18:38.080 the one thing I can say about the the that 0:18:38.200 --> 0:18:39.440 you guess to me know about the EMMO was that 0:18:39.560 --> 0:18:42.640 like there there were like a bunch of like they're 0:18:42.680 --> 0:18:45.399 they're one of the bunch of the reports about the 0:18:45.520 --> 0:18:48.159 injuries that he suffered. We're talking about like he got 0:18:48.240 --> 0:18:49.520 hit in the back, but there were also holes in 0:18:49.600 --> 0:18:52.320 his neck, So my guess. 0:18:52.200 --> 0:18:54.000 Yeah, there was there was a lot of there's a 0:18:54.000 --> 0:18:55.399 lot of blood from a lot of different places. 0:18:55.760 --> 0:18:59.000 Yeah, I guess it wasn't one thing then, But I 0:18:59.080 --> 0:19:01.879 don't know. Everything that's kind of interesting about this is 0:19:02.000 --> 0:19:04.520 like the extent to which well, okay, so like he 0:19:04.720 --> 0:19:08.359 was like ab was like very clearly dead. Like people 0:19:08.400 --> 0:19:10.640 people had like reported him at the scene as having 0:19:10.720 --> 0:19:12.879 no vitals and they were like, yeah, his heart stopped 0:19:12.960 --> 0:19:17.000 and they had like opt out him to like what Tokyo, Yeah, Tokyo. 0:19:17.080 --> 0:19:19.440 But the Japanese government did a very good job of 0:19:19.480 --> 0:19:21.920 making sure the press had like no information, and so 0:19:22.080 --> 0:19:24.400 there was just like there was like many many many 0:19:24.520 --> 0:19:26.960 hours where they were like pretending that he wasn't dead 0:19:27.000 --> 0:19:28.840 and like wouldn't confirm that he was dead. And he's 0:19:28.880 --> 0:19:31.680 like this, this man is clearly dead as shit, Like 0:19:32.080 --> 0:19:35.800 he has gotten blown up by a blunderbuss like in 0:19:35.960 --> 0:19:38.520 the back. His neck's gone. He's like, I mean, he's 0:19:38.560 --> 0:19:40.760 not not gone, like his neck. His neck's been shot, 0:19:40.880 --> 0:19:42.520 his heart has stopped, and they just sort of like 0:19:43.560 --> 0:19:47.719 keep it there for for a pretty impressively long wi time. 0:19:47.720 --> 0:19:51.520 And that's the other thing. We know very little about 0:19:52.359 --> 0:19:55.800 what happened and why the press has been keeping the 0:19:55.920 --> 0:19:59.280 government's been keeping a very tight lid on information about 0:19:59.280 --> 0:20:11.159 the shooting so far. Are Yeah, I guess we want 0:20:11.200 --> 0:20:14.920 to pivot into the gun control side of this, sure, 0:20:15.480 --> 0:20:15.800 I guess. 0:20:16.000 --> 0:20:19.000 Okay, So the I mean like there was a mayor 0:20:19.040 --> 0:20:20.680 shot a few years ago, yeah. 0:20:20.960 --> 0:20:24.159 Seven a Yaki is a guy shot the mayor of Nagasaki, 0:20:24.320 --> 0:20:26.560 so like, and like there's a there's been a lot 0:20:26.600 --> 0:20:29.280 of people, like journalists, people who are like supposedly japan 0:20:29.400 --> 0:20:31.800 experts who are like, oh, this is really rare in 0:20:31.880 --> 0:20:34.159 Japanese culture. Is like, no, it's not. People get assassinated, 0:20:34.280 --> 0:20:36.760 like like the Japan has a very low rate of 0:20:36.760 --> 0:20:39.320 gun violence, but oh that gun violence. The number of 0:20:39.480 --> 0:20:43.080 politicians got to get assassinated is like unbelievably high. And 0:20:43.480 --> 0:20:45.679 you know, I mean like that there have been there 0:20:45.720 --> 0:20:47.680 have been a lot of I mean like Abe's like 0:20:47.880 --> 0:20:51.720 grandfather Wasishi like got stabbed right after we left office, 0:20:52.320 --> 0:20:54.960 like and he only didn't die because the guy who 0:20:55.000 --> 0:20:56.960 stabbed him claimed that he wasn't trying to kill him, 0:20:56.960 --> 0:20:59.159 he was just stabbing him, which is one of the 0:20:59.240 --> 0:21:02.280 weirdest things I've had heard. I don't know, I I 0:21:02.720 --> 0:21:06.000 suspect some of yakaza bullshit was going on there, but yeah, 0:21:06.080 --> 0:21:11.200 like I Japan has assassinations. It there's there's this weird 0:21:11.320 --> 0:21:13.560 thing where people think Japan is this place that's like 0:21:14.640 --> 0:21:18.240 like no violence happens, like it's a completely orderly society. 0:21:18.400 --> 0:21:22.840 It's like all this all this like weird stuff fas Japan. Yeah, 0:21:22.880 --> 0:21:26.000 it's like like this, this is a country like this, 0:21:26.200 --> 0:21:28.960 This is a country where people like like even in 0:21:29.080 --> 0:21:31.359 like the seventies and like if you through the eighties, 0:21:31.400 --> 0:21:34.399