America & World IV: Trump's Taxing Day

[QualityChimp]

SWAT team. They fired 110 shots and only hit him with 68. Not that "special" tbh. Why not one headshot? Must have been like that scene in Aliens with the Robot sentries

Or the bit in Robocop where Murphy dies.

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https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2022/jul/08/shinzo-abe-shot-live-news-former-japan-prime-minister-feared-dead-shooting-japanese-pm-attack-speech?page=with:block-62c7f00e8f08599e90424188#block-62c7f00e8f08599e90424188

Former Prime Minister of Japan Shinzo Abe has been confirmed to have died following an assassination attempt whereby a gunman shot him twice in the back with a homemade shotgun

[Yakumo]

https://www.theguardian.com/world/li...08599e90424188
Former Prime Minister of Japan Shinzo Abe has been confirmed to have died following an assassination attempt whereby a gunman shot him twice in the back with a homemade shotgun

1 death this year in Japan by a gun which had to be home made. At least a few tens of thousands in the US with guns that any dick can buy.
Is this really a comparison here?

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I give it 24 hours before Tucker Carlson says on TV that it could have been prevented if Japanese citizens all had guns

[Asura]

1 death this year in Japan by a gun which had to be home made. At least a few tens of thousands in the US with guns that any dick can buy.
Is this really a comparison here?

Worth adding here (as I'm sure you know, Yakumo) that rifles and shotguns can be bought in Japan, but they have extensive testing - you have to pass a psychological exam, and you also have to pass a test of accuracy at a shooting range. Plus the weapons themselves are limited to those which have practical use as tools; so no assault weapons, no pistols; just rifles and certain shotguns, for hunting and so on.

And they have almost zero gun deaths per year, in a country twice the population of the UK and maybe a quarter the size of the US.

Honestly it's a great advertisement for strict gun control.

[Hirst]

It was a similar situation when Jo Cox (MP) got killed near me, it didn't really get out much into the national press but the gun itself was a bolt-action air rifle used for pest control that the killer fashioned into a crude handgun. Onlookers thought it was some old pirate-era gun. It had to be used pretty much point-blank, but even then he still had to use a knife.

It's not comparable to America, where there's an insistence that people should have free access to basically military-grade hardware to stop burglars, which is honestly like a lethal version of kids wanting a high-end gaming rig to do their homework.

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Now we're moving (thankfully) ever further away from the intensity of the Trump era - unless he somehow finds his way back in - it's probably time to adapt this thread to being something more international based

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https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/07/08/biden-outline-new-steps-aimed-bolstering-abortion-rights/

Biden has signed an Executive Order to try and preserve access to some of the lost abortion and contraception rights

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https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1418091/000110465922078413/tm2220599d1_ex99-p.htm

And after the long song and dance Musk is trying to escape the Twitter deal

[Cassius_Smoke]

Twitter is going to take Musk to court to force him to buy it for $44b.

[Asura]

Twitter is going to take Musk to court to force him to buy it for $44b.

I suspect they'll settle. Makes sense as that's going to be a biiiiiig settlement.

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https://www.theguardian.com/news/2022/jul/10/uber-files-leak-reveals-global-lobbying-campaign

Uber gets a torch shined through it

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Worth adding here (as I'm sure you know, Yakumo) that rifles and shotguns can be bought in Japan, but they have extensive testing - you have to pass a psychological exam, and you also have to pass a test of accuracy at a shooting range. Plus the weapons themselves are limited to those which have practical use as tools; so no assault weapons, no pistols; just rifles and certain shotguns, for hunting and so on.

And they have almost zero gun deaths per year, in a country twice the population of the UK and maybe a quarter the size of the US.

Honestly it's a great advertisement for strict gun control.

Shhhhhhhhhhhhh. Congress might hear you and sue for spreading filth filthy lies about all those innocent US guns.

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Hideo Kojima threatens legal action after being wrongfully identified as Shinzo Abe's assassin (msn.com)
Poor quality journalism... never changes