WEBVTT - Shinzo Abe Killed By Electric Blunderbuss 0:00:04.960 --> 0:00:07.440 Welcome to it could happen here a podcast that, for 0:00:07.600 --> 0:00:11.440 the first time ever is being recorded on an earth 0:00:11.520 --> 0:00:13.560 that I no longer have to share with that fascist 0:00:13.600 --> 0:00:17.279 rap bass or chinzawabe and with with me, with me 0:00:17.320 --> 0:00:23.280 to celebrate this occasion is Garrison Davis. Hi, hello and James, 0:00:23.320 --> 0:00:26.960 have have we actually have we like introduced you? Introduced you? 0:00:27.040 --> 0:00:29.880 Yet I didn't think so. No, I just pop up 0:00:29.920 --> 0:00:34.800 talking about three D printed guns and people who hate butterflies. Yeah. Yeah, 0:00:35.600 --> 0:00:38.760 this is this is truly a dark day for democracy. 0:00:38.880 --> 0:00:45.519 I'm saddened by the horrible loss of a great leader. Um, 0:00:45.880 --> 0:00:51.240 A hero to feminism and women. Um. And I guess 0:00:51.640 --> 0:00:54.440 a hero to those who defend war crimes. So I 0:00:54.440 --> 0:00:59.000 guess before before before wefore we get into one of 0:00:59.000 --> 0:01:01.800 the funniest things that's happened in maybe twenty years. Um. 0:01:02.200 --> 0:01:04.000 You do you want to like talk about who you are? 0:01:04.120 --> 0:01:06.600 Because you are now one of us and I'm very 0:01:06.640 --> 0:01:09.840 excited about it. Yeah, I'm one of Yeah, I'm now 0:01:09.840 --> 0:01:13.279 a podcast Yeah. Um? So who I am? I am 0:01:13.319 --> 0:01:19.040 a journalist, I guess, uh, and a historian and I 0:01:19.080 --> 0:01:21.320 wrote a book about the first week of the Spanish 0:01:21.360 --> 0:01:24.560 Civil War and my PhD is in the history of 0:01:24.560 --> 0:01:30.280 international anti fascism, building international anti fascist alliances through physical culture, 0:01:30.959 --> 0:01:34.760 which is very nerdy, but yeah, I love that stuff. 0:01:35.160 --> 0:01:37.600 What else? I'm British if that had not been made 0:01:37.640 --> 0:01:41.399 abundantly clear by my accent, and I live in southern California, 0:01:41.720 --> 0:01:45.960 which means this is a Now, this episode is a 0:01:46.000 --> 0:01:53.280 majority Commonwealth episode. Really exciting. We made it? Yeah, well 0:01:53.280 --> 0:01:55.200 we do in the national anthem in a minute here 0:01:55.240 --> 0:02:01.440 and we'll all just stand up. Uh so, ex Prime 0:02:01.480 --> 0:02:06.160 Minister kind of he's not around anymore, is he? No? 0:02:06.400 --> 0:02:10.360 He is dead as fuck? So all right we should 0:02:10.360 --> 0:02:15.120 I guess I guess we should explain who Shenzo Abe is. Yeah, um, okay, 0:02:15.120 --> 0:02:18.239 if if you want a really really long account of 0:02:18.280 --> 0:02:22.520 what the Japanese Liberal Democratic Party is, because they are 0:02:22.680 --> 0:02:28.880 some of the worst people who've ever existed democratic, how 0:02:28.960 --> 0:02:32.840 can this be? So? The very short version of this 0:02:33.000 --> 0:02:35.400 is that the Liberal Democratic Party is a party that 0:02:35.440 --> 0:02:38.000 was founded by Nobusuke Kishi, who is one of history's 0:02:38.000 --> 0:02:41.720 worst war criminals, person like personally responsible for enslaving hundreds 0:02:41.720 --> 0:02:44.679 of thousands of people in China. Uh he's the guy 0:02:44.720 --> 0:02:46.880 who basically he's the guy who was in charge of 0:02:46.919 --> 0:02:49.679 the economy of the fascist war machine, like like in 0:02:49.960 --> 0:02:54.400 Japanjua War two. He was the guy who ran like 0:02:54.440 --> 0:02:57.440 the sort of fascist puppet state called Manchuqua that was 0:02:58.360 --> 0:03:03.760 run by Japan after they conquered it. Uh. Real war criminal. 0:03:03.919 --> 0:03:08.240 Also just like personally raped a like extremely large number 0:03:08.240 --> 0:03:10.600 of people. I think that, like I was almost never 0:03:10.680 --> 0:03:14.720 discussed when people talk about him, almost like like a 0:03:14.840 --> 0:03:21.160 shockingly high white number. Yeah. It's of sex crimes, it's wild. Yeah. 0:03:21.160 --> 0:03:23.800 And he's also I mean, he's involved with the Japanese 0:03:23.800 --> 0:03:25.919 military sex slave program, which you were here referred to 0:03:26.000 --> 0:03:28.799 as comfort women, and I refused to call the comfort 0:03:28.800 --> 0:03:32.959 women because that is a fucking horrifying euphemism for again, 0:03:33.040 --> 0:03:36.240 a program of military sex slavery. Uh. He also was 0:03:36.280 --> 0:03:38.720 one of the people who signed off on Unit seven 0:03:38.760 --> 0:03:41.880 thirty one, which was Japan's chemical weapons testing unit where 0:03:41.880 --> 0:03:46.280 they fucking like purposely infested, infected and tested chemical weapons 0:03:46.440 --> 0:03:51.160 on prisoners. Uh. Yeah, he's one of the worst people ever. 0:03:51.320 --> 0:03:53.400 And then he got a bunch of CIA backing and 0:03:53.440 --> 0:03:55.200 so backing from the y Aakasa because the CIA is 0:03:55.240 --> 0:03:59.600 working with the yakuza on early uh fifty Japan and 0:03:59.640 --> 0:04:02.120 she's a will basically to force all of the other 0:04:03.240 --> 0:04:06.560 conservative like people to join his party, and the sort 0:04:06.600 --> 0:04:08.680 of the merger of the of the Liberal Party, Liberal 0:04:08.680 --> 0:04:11.440 Party and the Democratic Party is now the Liberal Democratic Party. 0:04:11.640 --> 0:04:14.560 This is Keishi's party. He founded it, he drags everyone 0:04:14.560 --> 0:04:17.159 else into it. He does an immense amount of corruption. 0:04:17.240 --> 0:04:21.160 He tries to bring fascism back. He narrowly fails. Shinzo 0:04:21.200 --> 0:04:25.679 Abe is his grandson. Uh the LDP Liberal Democratic Party, 0:04:25.800 --> 0:04:29.480 Yeah has Yeah, it sucks. It's like like nothing. The 0:04:29.520 --> 0:04:30.800 way that I've been thinking about, like how do you 0:04:30.800 --> 0:04:32.719 explain this to people who don't who don't have like 0:04:32.720 --> 0:04:35.880 a background in like Japanese like war crime stuff is 0:04:35.920 --> 0:04:39.600 like imagine if like one of Hitler's generals had like 0:04:39.960 --> 0:04:42.200 survived World War Two and then the CIA made him 0:04:42.480 --> 0:04:45.560 made him the prime Minister of Germany and then and 0:04:46.080 --> 0:04:49.800 he got more fascist because people were saying mean things 0:04:49.839 --> 0:04:51.800 about his grandpa. He's like, oh, I don't like that 0:04:51.800 --> 0:04:54.240 they're calling him bad names. I'm going to get more 0:04:54.279 --> 0:04:59.400 fascist now, so like ill be abbe himself. He's car 0:04:59.640 --> 0:05:01.880 He's been carrying out a lot of the same things 0:05:01.960 --> 0:05:04.320 that that she was trying to do. Kishi was trying 0:05:04.360 --> 0:05:06.680 to sort of restore the sort of full fascist power 0:05:06.680 --> 0:05:09.320 of the police. Abe has been doing a whole bunch 0:05:09.360 --> 0:05:12.760 of shifts of centralizing power in the executive and spatting 0:05:12.760 --> 0:05:15.080 the police's power should just arrest whoever the funk they want. 0:05:15.720 --> 0:05:18.440 Um So. One of one of the other things about 0:05:18.480 --> 0:05:21.159 Japan is that like legally in their constitution they can't 0:05:21.160 --> 0:05:25.040 go to war, and like both Kishi and Abbe like 0:05:25.120 --> 0:05:27.320 this is like they're big fucking things that they want. 0:05:27.320 --> 0:05:29.320 They want to fully rearm Japan. They want Japan be 0:05:29.360 --> 0:05:31.279 able to go to war because they want to do 0:05:31.320 --> 0:05:35.400 the fucking empire again. And you know, so this has led. Yeah, 0:05:35.400 --> 0:05:40.240 Abe has been doing that. Um He also the thing 0:05:40.279 --> 0:05:43.480 he's probably most famous for in terms of like the 0:05:43.520 --> 0:05:46.240 reasons people think he's bad because he is he's like 0:05:46.600 --> 0:05:51.159 just actually a monster. Is he's just like a like 0:05:51.360 --> 0:05:54.960 unfathomable degree of war crime denial like he he pulled 0:05:55.200 --> 0:05:58.279 so Japan in the nineties had admitted that they fucking 0:05:58.360 --> 0:06:02.120 kidnapped and enslaved like an enormous number of people from 0:06:02.400 --> 0:06:05.200 of people from Korea, people from China, and I think 0:06:05.240 --> 0:06:07.320 they also did they did in the Philippines and Indonesia too, 0:06:07.320 --> 0:06:10.200 although there's less sort of coverage of that, and like 0:06:10.240 --> 0:06:12.360 turn them into military sex slaves, did things to them 0:06:12.440 --> 0:06:18.320 that are like, I fucking unspeakable. Um And so the 0:06:18.400 --> 0:06:20.200 Japanese government the nineties had admitted they did this and 0:06:20.240 --> 0:06:23.600 apologized for it, and Abe was like, no, funk that 0:06:23.600 --> 0:06:26.080 that's that's wrong. He's also a part of this group 0:06:26.160 --> 0:06:30.120 called Niponka guy, which is like a fascist group. And okay, 0:06:30.120 --> 0:06:32.240 so this is this is this is according to a 0:06:32.360 --> 0:06:36.160 US congressional report, what they believe quote Japan should be 0:06:36.160 --> 0:06:39.520 applauded for liberating musch of East Asia from western colonial powers, 0:06:39.800 --> 0:06:43.720 that the Night Tokyo War crivate stripe units were illegitimate, 0:06:43.960 --> 0:06:46.560 and that the killings by Japanese troops through the nineteen 0:06:46.600 --> 0:06:50.680 thirties seven Nujing Massacre were exaggerated or fabricated. Oh boy. 0:06:51.000 --> 0:06:53.280 They also openly yeah, yeah, yeah. They they also saw 0:06:53.279 --> 0:06:57.760 the nudging denialists. They're they're they're sex slave denialists. They 0:06:57.880 --> 0:07:00.120 openly call for the restoration of the monarchy and the 0:07:00.160 --> 0:07:04.800 institution of Shinto as a state religion. Umb Like ab 0:07:05.120 --> 0:07:09.600 Like has continuously said that the sex slave like did 0:07:09.640 --> 0:07:12.840 it were like did were there voluntarily? Does another thing 0:07:13.080 --> 0:07:17.000 that but but but but Hillary Clinton just tweated that 0:07:17.040 --> 0:07:20.120 Pregns was a champion of democracy and a firm believer 0:07:20.240 --> 0:07:22.960 that no economy, society, country because achieve its full potential 0:07:23.080 --> 0:07:26.720 if you leave women behind. Why you know, she to 0:07:27.880 --> 0:07:31.480 be fair, to be fair, to be fair, both Abbe 0:07:31.520 --> 0:07:34.680 and nobody. She did in fact believe in using women 0:07:34.720 --> 0:07:39.200 to fuel the economy, just not in that way. He also, 0:07:39.480 --> 0:07:42.440 there's there's neverthing that so probably these most like famous 0:07:42.520 --> 0:07:45.440 most controversial thing was So there's the shrine called the 0:07:45.560 --> 0:07:49.000 um Yasukuni Shrine, which is is the shrine is dedicated 0:07:49.040 --> 0:07:52.400 to soldiers who like died serving the Japanese emperor and 0:07:52.800 --> 0:07:55.440 in in this so there's this thing called the Book 0:07:55.440 --> 0:07:58.200 of Souls that has like lists of names right of 0:07:58.320 --> 0:08:01.600 just like the other people who died, and a thousand 0:08:02.120 --> 0:08:04.480 sixty eight of the people who were of the people 0:08:04.520 --> 0:08:06.520 in that book are people who were who were convicted 0:08:06.560 --> 0:08:09.680 of war crimes. And there are also at fourteen Class 0:08:09.680 --> 0:08:12.120 A war criminals who either died or were executed who 0:08:12.120 --> 0:08:14.920 are considered martyrs. There and Abde fucking like visited there 0:08:14.960 --> 0:08:19.240 and like braid and ship and this piste off everyone. 0:08:19.280 --> 0:08:20.720 And I mean this is like there are lots of 0:08:20.720 --> 0:08:22.680 people who have gotten mad and me already for celebrating 0:08:22.680 --> 0:08:26.040 Abby's death and my, my, my, My official line on 0:08:26.040 --> 0:08:27.680 this is, if Ab didn't want me to celebrate his 0:08:27.760 --> 0:08:29.800 fucking death, maybe he shouldn't have celebrated the lives of 0:08:29.800 --> 0:08:34.000 the people who killed my fucking family, So fuck them. Yeah, 0:08:34.440 --> 0:08:37.720 so he's not not not a great dude. The real 0:08:37.800 --> 0:08:43.120 pack and automatic the every thing we should mention too 0:08:43.240 --> 0:08:45.040 before we go into sort of like the details of 0:08:45.040 --> 0:08:48.040 the shooting is that there is an election actually but 0:08:48.200 --> 0:08:50.920 but but by the time this episode drops, I think 0:08:50.960 --> 0:08:56.360 the election will have happened, um, where there is a 0:08:56.480 --> 0:08:59.200 real chance that the Liberal Democratic Party is going to 0:08:59.320 --> 0:09:02.160 sort of lie just fucking sweep it. Because Liberal Democratic 0:09:02.200 --> 0:09:04.679 Party immediately starts to blame me the left for this. Uh, 0:09:04.720 --> 0:09:07.480 there's a whole bunch of I mean just absolutely horrifying 0:09:07.559 --> 0:09:11.120 stuff where they're blaming Korean people who live in live 0:09:11.120 --> 0:09:13.959 in Japan, which if you know anything about Japanese history, 0:09:14.240 --> 0:09:17.960 when that stuff starts happening like in in In after 0:09:18.000 --> 0:09:20.720 the Canto earthquake, h a bunch of people just started 0:09:20.760 --> 0:09:23.560 blaming Koreans for the whole thing, and they fucking literally 0:09:23.559 --> 0:09:27.280 exterminated almost the entire Korean population in several major Japanese cities. 0:09:27.800 --> 0:09:31.559 And so this stuff is very scary. Uh, It's possible 0:09:31.559 --> 0:09:34.280 that this is going to set off like an incredible 0:09:34.320 --> 0:09:38.000 right wing lrici of Japanese politics, and there's a chance 0:09:38.080 --> 0:09:40.360 that this, this this could be the actual thing that 0:09:41.160 --> 0:09:44.920 like full on triggers Japan like we are being and 0:09:45.080 --> 0:09:46.560 you know, going back into sort of just being a 0:09:46.559 --> 0:09:49.560 pure fascist empire. So this is not Yeah, that that 0:09:49.600 --> 0:09:53.160 part is really bad. The motivation for the assassination is still, 0:09:53.679 --> 0:09:57.360 at least at time of recording, still slightly unclear, very unclear. 0:09:57.800 --> 0:10:01.280 According according to some politics Asians and news media, we 0:10:01.320 --> 0:10:05.320 do know the suspect is Hyo Kojima, that you can 0:10:05.440 --> 0:10:09.400 you can infer a little bit fased on. So yeah, 0:10:09.520 --> 0:10:13.880 there's there's like French politicians and a Greek news channel 0:10:14.080 --> 0:10:18.760 who are using pictures of video developer Hideo Kojima and 0:10:19.520 --> 0:10:24.920 passing them off as the shooting suspect, which is really funny. 0:10:24.960 --> 0:10:29.840 It is funny pictures of Kachima like inside like a 0:10:29.920 --> 0:10:33.520 Russian like communist hat fucking thing, pictures of him wearing 0:10:33.600 --> 0:10:37.440 a joker shirt and standing in front of a Jacobara picture, 0:10:38.400 --> 0:10:41.480 and they're using this as proof that it's via left 0:10:41.520 --> 0:10:51.280 wing terrorist and it's actually video game developer Kojiba. It's yeah, So, like, 0:10:51.400 --> 0:10:55.400 I guess what we know about the actual shooter, Um, 0:10:55.440 --> 0:10:57.720 we don't know that much. Is a forty two year 0:10:57.760 --> 0:11:00.920 old guy who was a former veteran of the of 0:11:00.960 --> 0:11:02.760 the Japanese Self Defense Force. He was he was a 0:11:02.840 --> 0:11:07.160 Navy guy, which I guess partially explains why he can 0:11:07.160 --> 0:11:12.560 shoot a gun. Um, but yeah, the details are really murky. 0:11:12.800 --> 0:11:15.800 What we've got at time of recording is the Japanese 0:11:15.840 --> 0:11:18.760 police saying that it wasn't because of a political thing, 0:11:18.960 --> 0:11:20.640 and that it was because of a group that he 0:11:20.760 --> 0:11:23.440 was that I was a member of. Who the funk 0:11:23.520 --> 0:11:26.000 knows what that means. That can mean any number of things. 0:11:26.320 --> 0:11:29.600 I I'm not going to speculate live on here because 0:11:30.040 --> 0:11:37.000 I I don't know. Yeah, but also it was extremely 0:11:37.080 --> 0:11:40.560 funny and we should we should talk about the weapon 0:11:40.760 --> 0:11:42.760 that was Yeah, this is why this is one of 0:11:42.760 --> 0:11:45.160 the reasons why it's extremely funny, and we we should 0:11:45.600 --> 0:11:47.920 probably gonna hands over to James because James is a 0:11:48.000 --> 0:11:50.679 bit a bit more of an expert in this type 0:11:50.679 --> 0:11:57.880 of uh D I Y weapon rate of So what 0:11:57.880 --> 0:12:01.040 what the fund is going on with this home made gun? Yeah? 0:12:01.120 --> 0:12:04.200 This ship, Yeah, this ship is fucking this ship. This 0:12:04.240 --> 0:12:09.720 is crazy. Um yeah, it's extremely funny. It's extremely funny 0:12:09.800 --> 0:12:12.360 that all these people with fifty thou followers on Twitter 0:12:12.400 --> 0:12:16.599 who quote and quote do ocean like immediately label this 0:12:16.679 --> 0:12:18.760 is a three D printed gun, which is not. It 0:12:18.840 --> 0:12:22.640 does not look this gun is being held together with 0:12:22.760 --> 0:12:25.720 duct tape like that. That is that. That is the 0:12:25.800 --> 0:12:27.480 kind of weapon that we're dealing with you. This is 0:12:27.480 --> 0:12:30.800 this is a homemade gun, like held together with fucking 0:12:30.880 --> 0:12:33.679 duct tape. It is extremely It is like he got 0:12:33.720 --> 0:12:37.600 blowed up by an electric blunderbuss. It is. Yeah, like 0:12:37.800 --> 0:12:40.160 there could very well be three D printed parts in 0:12:40.400 --> 0:12:43.480 like around it. But it is. But it's not. It's 0:12:43.480 --> 0:12:45.360 not looking. It's it's it's not like it's not like 0:12:45.440 --> 0:12:48.880 an f DC nine or anything. Um, it's it's a 0:12:48.920 --> 0:12:55.080 weird like electronic pipe duct taped together shotgun. Yeah, it's 0:12:55.200 --> 0:12:57.200 I think perhaps if people don't understand, we should like 0:12:57.200 --> 0:13:00.600 break down how firearms work broadly and and how this 0:13:00.640 --> 0:13:05.080 one works specifically, right, So, like, and there's no reason 0:13:05.120 --> 0:13:06.760 why you should be familiar with this, but like you 0:13:06.800 --> 0:13:09.199 need something to explode, something to make it explode, and 0:13:09.280 --> 0:13:11.199 something to go at the end, and a way to 0:13:11.280 --> 0:13:14.600 make sure it only goes in one direction. Right. Uh. 0:13:14.800 --> 0:13:18.319 So what this character has done is seemingly it's yeah, 0:13:18.360 --> 0:13:21.520 it's like a blunderbuss or a musket in that it 0:13:21.559 --> 0:13:25.000 seems to be like muzzle loaded from the front. Uh. 0:13:25.040 --> 0:13:28.080 And uh, I'm looking at it now and it really 0:13:28.200 --> 0:13:31.720 is just covered in duct tape. I tweeted a picture 0:13:31.760 --> 0:13:34.960 of it. It's a gay. Yeah, this ship is is 0:13:35.040 --> 0:13:37.160 very old fashioned. He seems to have made his own 0:13:37.160 --> 0:13:39.439 powder to like it was very very smoky, which you 0:13:39.480 --> 0:13:40.800 can do. I'm not gonna tell you how to do it, 0:13:40.840 --> 0:13:45.559 but it's the thing that is possible. And so essentially 0:13:45.559 --> 0:13:48.000 from what I'm seeing here, it looks like it's like 0:13:48.040 --> 0:13:51.920 a piso electric ignition which then ignites this homemade powder 0:13:51.960 --> 0:13:56.800 that he had. Uh. And then he's put something in 0:13:57.240 --> 0:13:59.320 a shotgun means it doesn't have rifling, right, so it 0:13:59.360 --> 0:14:02.640 doesn't imparts been on the projectile. So he's basically got 0:14:02.679 --> 0:14:06.520 two pipes a pierzo electric ignitis, some homemade powder, and 0:14:06.559 --> 0:14:08.960 then he could have put nails in there. He could 0:14:09.000 --> 0:14:13.839 have put a castlet ball, anything, bolts, And this wasn't 0:14:13.880 --> 0:14:18.440 the only homemade weapon he had. The police rated his house. 0:14:18.880 --> 0:14:22.920 He had a whole bunch of supplies that looks it 0:14:22.960 --> 0:14:24.920 looks out of like it looks like it's out of 0:14:24.960 --> 0:14:27.840 like fallout or something. It is like there was one 0:14:28.120 --> 0:14:32.680 like blunderbust that had nine different barrels, all duct tapes together. 0:14:33.560 --> 0:14:38.880 It's like exposed wiring, exposed circuit boards, like it's it's 0:14:38.920 --> 0:14:44.960 like it's extremely JANKI yeah, it's like I'm not entirely 0:14:44.960 --> 0:14:48.320 sure that the nine barrel one the central barrel isn't 0:14:48.360 --> 0:14:51.280 touched by the by the structural duct tape, and I'm 0:14:51.280 --> 0:14:53.360 not sure that it wouldn't have moved in one direction 0:14:53.440 --> 0:14:57.760 or the other when he fired it. In Yeah, I 0:14:57.760 --> 0:15:00.520 think that's a that's like a yoga. I can't he's 0:15:00.560 --> 0:15:02.600 put something on the He's made a butt stock with 0:15:02.640 --> 0:15:05.000 that one, so like he can be shoulder it, I guess. 0:15:05.040 --> 0:15:06.680 And I don't know if that's like a piece of 0:15:06.720 --> 0:15:10.440 tire or what. But yeah, yeah, this is not a 0:15:10.440 --> 0:15:14.480 precision weapon. Wooden boards. There's like some type of like 0:15:14.600 --> 0:15:17.480 reflect It looks almost like a smartphone's attached to some 0:15:17.520 --> 0:15:22.360 of the wiring, or like there's something reflective screen that 0:15:22.520 --> 0:15:25.280 looks like it's like like an electronic control box, which 0:15:25.320 --> 0:15:28.320 could could just be like an old smartphone or something. Yeah, 0:15:28.520 --> 0:15:30.560 I wondered if he could, because that's what you use 0:15:30.680 --> 0:15:33.800 for for an improvised explosive device, right, it's a it's 0:15:33.840 --> 0:15:35.600 a cell phone to actuate it. So it could be 0:15:35.760 --> 0:15:37.520 maybe he had a plan to just put it near 0:15:37.600 --> 0:15:39.200 where are they was going to be and then call 0:15:39.240 --> 0:15:44.440 it and then that would be well, I mean, this 0:15:44.640 --> 0:15:47.160 is a this is a much better assassinated it has 0:15:47.200 --> 0:15:49.560 the stock, So I'm guessing. I'm guessing would he beginning 0:15:49.600 --> 0:15:51.360 to hold it because otherwise there's no reason to put 0:15:51.360 --> 0:15:55.000 the butt stock there? Yeah, but who knows, Like this 0:15:55.000 --> 0:15:58.680 guy is operating on a different level. We have no 0:15:58.720 --> 0:16:01.320 way to know what he was saying gig at least 0:16:01.360 --> 0:16:03.840 at least at least not at the moment. What he 0:16:03.920 --> 0:16:06.000 was thinking was I want to kill shinzo Abe with 0:16:06.040 --> 0:16:10.760 my pipes and planks. He did it. He's exactly whatever 0:16:10.840 --> 0:16:13.440 you think of him. This man didn't successfully kill Shenzo 0:16:13.520 --> 0:16:16.840 Abbe with a gun held together by duct tape. It's 0:16:17.120 --> 0:16:19.320 it's pretty impressive, Like I think the everything about this 0:16:19.320 --> 0:16:22.080 is kind of impressive. Is a he so so he 0:16:22.160 --> 0:16:24.360 there were there were two barrels on it that each fired, 0:16:24.960 --> 0:16:27.640 and he managed to hit him from like a pretty 0:16:27.680 --> 0:16:30.800 good distance away. Like we don't have there's there's no 0:16:30.920 --> 0:16:32.760 video that directly well at least not that's out yet 0:16:32.760 --> 0:16:34.640 that's like directly shows the shooting. We have a lot 0:16:34.640 --> 0:16:37.080 of video because ib is giving a speech, right, so 0:16:37.160 --> 0:16:39.600 we have a bunch of video of like filming Abbe 0:16:39.640 --> 0:16:42.640 and it's and because of where it is coming from 0:16:42.640 --> 0:16:45.160 off screen, like that was a pretty good distance. And 0:16:45.200 --> 0:16:47.240 as best I can tell, he only hit Abbe. I 0:16:47.240 --> 0:16:48.800 don't I don't think. I haven't seen any reports of 0:16:48.800 --> 0:16:52.800 anyone else getting hit. So I yeah, impressed. That is 0:16:52.800 --> 0:16:55.840 Actually that is actually kind of slightly surprising. Yeah, there was, 0:16:56.120 --> 0:16:58.480 there was no one else hit. It's like he just 0:16:58.560 --> 0:17:01.000 got the guy he was. It's like that that that 0:17:01.120 --> 0:17:04.239 is genuinely pretty rare, and assassinations like like basically like 0:17:04.320 --> 0:17:11.480 a homemade blunderbust cannon was like surprisingly surprisingly controlled that accurate. Yeah, 0:17:11.800 --> 0:17:15.080 I just found a picture of it with the Cyberpunkies 0:17:16.520 --> 0:17:22.400 seven logo underneath you, which is pretty great. Yeah, that's rule. 0:17:22.960 --> 0:17:25.040 Yeah he did manage to cause it kind of just 0:17:25.080 --> 0:17:28.639 put like a large, massive lead ball in it, I guess, 0:17:28.920 --> 0:17:32.880 and yeah, whatever, because I don't think it. I don't 0:17:32.920 --> 0:17:35.320 think it was one thing. So that one of the 0:17:35.359 --> 0:17:37.160 one thing I could say about the that we guys 0:17:37.240 --> 0:17:39.920 we know about the EMMA was that like there they 0:17:39.920 --> 0:17:41.840 were like a bunch of like they're they're one of 0:17:41.840 --> 0:17:45.200 the much of the reports about the injuries that he suffered. 0:17:45.280 --> 0:17:47.400 We're talking about like he got hit in the back, 0:17:47.440 --> 0:17:51.919 but they're also holes in his neck. So my guess 0:17:51.480 --> 0:17:53.239 from a lot of there's a lot of blood from 0:17:53.240 --> 0:17:55.840 a lot of different places. Yeah, I guess there wasn't 0:17:55.880 --> 0:17:59.520 one thing then, But I don't know. Everything that is 0:17:59.560 --> 0:18:01.679 kind of interest about this is like the extent to 0:18:01.720 --> 0:18:04.439 which Okay, so like he was like it was like 0:18:04.760 --> 0:18:08.360 very clearly dead, like people people had like reported him 0:18:08.400 --> 0:18:10.800 at the scene is having no vitals and they were like, yeah, 0:18:10.840 --> 0:18:14.000 his heart stopped and they helicoptered at him to like 0:18:14.000 --> 0:18:17.520 what Tokyo, Yeah, tokyo. But the Japanese government did a 0:18:17.600 --> 0:18:19.159 very good job of making sure the press had like 0:18:19.240 --> 0:18:21.840 no information, and so there was just like there was 0:18:21.920 --> 0:18:24.800 like many many many hours where they were like pretending 0:18:24.840 --> 0:18:26.879 that he wasn't dead and like wouldn't confirm that he 0:18:26.920 --> 0:18:29.240 was dead. And he's like this, this man is clearly 0:18:29.320 --> 0:18:32.680 dead as ship. Like he has gotten blown up by 0:18:32.720 --> 0:18:36.479 a blunderbus like in the back. His next gone. He's like, 0:18:36.840 --> 0:18:38.560 I mean, he's not not gone like his his next 0:18:38.600 --> 0:18:40.640 his next been shot. His heart is stopped and they 0:18:40.680 --> 0:18:44.080 just sort of like keep it there for for a 0:18:44.960 --> 0:18:47.040 pretty impressively long long time. And that's the only thing 0:18:47.320 --> 0:18:53.080 we we know very little about what happened and why. Um, 0:18:53.480 --> 0:18:55.399 the press has been keeping the government's be keeping a 0:18:55.480 --> 0:19:09.280 very tight lid on information about the shooting so far. Yeah, 0:19:09.280 --> 0:19:12.080 I guess we want to pivot into the gun control 0:19:12.119 --> 0:19:15.879 side of this. Um, I guess. Okay, So the I 0:19:15.880 --> 0:19:19.160 mean like there was a mayor shot a few years ago. Yeah, 0:19:19.240 --> 0:19:22.879 just Yaka is a guy shot the mayor of Nagasaki, 0:19:23.000 --> 0:19:25.240 so like, and like there's a there's been a lot 0:19:25.280 --> 0:19:27.600 of people like journalists and people who are like supposedly 0:19:27.640 --> 0:19:30.400 japan experts who are like, oh, this is really rare 0:19:30.400 --> 0:19:32.880 in Japanese culture is like no, it's not people get assassinated, 0:19:32.960 --> 0:19:35.440 like like the Japan has a very low rate of 0:19:35.440 --> 0:19:37.960 gun violence, but of that gun violence and the number 0:19:38.000 --> 0:19:40.640 of politicians going to get asassinated it is like unbelievably high. 0:19:41.760 --> 0:19:44.200 And you know, I mean like that there have been there, 0:19:44.240 --> 0:19:45.880 There's been a lot of us. I mean like Abe's 0:19:46.280 --> 0:19:49.399 like grandfather, it was a yakishi like got stabbed right 0:19:49.440 --> 0:19:52.199 after we left office, like and he only didn't die 0:19:52.240 --> 0:19:54.920 because the guy who stabbed him claimed that he wasn't 0:19:54.920 --> 0:19:57.480 trying to kill him, he was just stabbing him, which 0:19:57.520 --> 0:19:59.320 is one of the weirdest things I've ever heard. Like 0:20:00.160 --> 0:20:03.040 I don't know, I suspect some yaks of bullshit was 0:20:03.080 --> 0:20:08.399 going on there. But yeah, like Japan has assassinations. Um it. 0:20:08.760 --> 0:20:11.399 There's there's this weird thing where people think Japan is 0:20:11.440 --> 0:20:15.600 this place that's like like no violence happens, like it's 0:20:15.600 --> 0:20:17.879 a completely orderly society. It's like all this all this 0:20:17.960 --> 0:20:22.520 like weird stuff famously past Japan. Yeah, it's like like 0:20:22.600 --> 0:20:25.600 this this is a country, like this is a country 0:20:25.760 --> 0:20:28.639 where people like like even in like the seventies and 0:20:28.800 --> 0:20:31.679 like if through the eighties, people would charge like rb 0:20:31.800 --> 0:20:34.920 convoys with sticks and like fight them. Like. This is 0:20:34.960 --> 0:20:40.240 a country that like like people, they have a sort 0:20:40.240 --> 0:20:42.840 of ape ship switch that just like, Yeah, they have 0:20:42.880 --> 0:20:47.960 their fair share of like cults that do acts of 0:20:48.080 --> 0:20:51.360 violence like this, fair share of political streamists that do 0:20:51.480 --> 0:20:55.360 as violence like this, and like everywhere else in like 0:20:55.359 --> 0:20:59.679 like everywhere else in the world, stuff just happens sometimes. Yeah, 0:20:59.800 --> 0:21:03.400 I think it is interesting that like Japan has extremely 0:21:03.440 --> 0:21:09.800 strict gun control, right, like licenses, test background checks, prohibitions 0:21:09.800 --> 0:21:12.720 on most people learning and carrying. But like it's kind 0:21:12.720 --> 0:21:16.000 of interesting that this is more of a like a 0:21:16.080 --> 0:21:19.240 First Amendment question, I guess in American terms, right, Like, 0:21:19.440 --> 0:21:22.960 if you're on the internet enough, I'm sure it looks 0:21:22.960 --> 0:21:25.359 like this person has just googled how to make gun 0:21:26.359 --> 0:21:29.199 and like this is what came up. And so I 0:21:29.200 --> 0:21:32.920 think it's kind of fascinating that that this person has 0:21:32.960 --> 0:21:37.720 been like aside from their possible connection to any criminal networks, 0:21:37.760 --> 0:21:40.600 but like, I know the Yakuza were selling guns to 0:21:40.640 --> 0:21:42.520 people in me and Mark pretty recently, so they have 0:21:42.560 --> 0:21:45.879 access to this. Yeah, and like the mayor who got 0:21:45.880 --> 0:21:47.879 whacked by yaks, a guy like if the Arkansas is 0:21:47.880 --> 0:21:49.680 going to do like, I don't know if yours is 0:21:49.720 --> 0:21:51.920 going to do a killing like they like they they 0:21:51.960 --> 0:21:53.800 have access to web, they would use a real gun, 0:21:54.520 --> 0:21:59.360 were abductive together. Okay, so like probably, but also like 0:21:59.800 --> 0:22:02.240 I wouldn't completely rule it out because I wouldn't rule 0:22:02.280 --> 0:22:04.760 out them just finding some guy and doing this thing 0:22:04.800 --> 0:22:06.560 the FBI does and it's like, hey, you're gonna go 0:22:06.600 --> 0:22:10.400 do an attack now, Like it wouldn't. It wouldn't surprise 0:22:10.440 --> 0:22:12.159 me if if they did that as like a plusable 0:22:12.160 --> 0:22:15.480 an ideally thing, but like we don't know. Um, I 0:22:15.520 --> 0:22:17.600 still don't think we can rule out that head out. 0:22:17.680 --> 0:22:21.199 Kajima is the mastermind behind this, um and it's all 0:22:21.240 --> 0:22:25.919 I know, right, it's it's just employed to play his 0:22:26.040 --> 0:22:29.359 next game. UM, just have to add a few like 0:22:29.720 --> 0:22:33.320 nonsense names to the all the all the people involved, 0:22:33.440 --> 0:22:38.760 like Blunderbustman, and then it's just it's it's easy, easy. 0:22:39.320 --> 0:22:43.080