<story><title>Former Japan PM Shinzo Abe Unconscious After Shooting; Man in Custody</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-07-08/japan-s-ex-pm-abe-collapses-in-nara-shots-heard-nhk-says</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>wirthjason</author><text>And after debating gun violence all week with my friends in the wake of the 4th of July shooting in Highland Park I made an example of Japan and it’s low gun violence. Now this happens.&lt;p&gt;Crazy stuff still happens in Japan but it’s usually a knife or ax. But guns and Abe are on another level.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>chii</author><text>My take is that gun violence has several different categories, and gun control only helps some of them (such as accidental, or emotional, spur of the moment shootings), but doesn&amp;#x27;t prevent any premeditated ones.&lt;p&gt;It will not stop people like the one at 4th july, nor those school shootings. Unless the gun control laws completely outlaw civilians owning guns - which i dont think will fly.&lt;p&gt;The root cause of gun violence is societal issues, not the guns themselves. Solve those societal issues (hard, and likely almost intractable unfortunately), or gun violence will persist.</text></comment>
<story><title>Former Japan PM Shinzo Abe Unconscious After Shooting; Man in Custody</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-07-08/japan-s-ex-pm-abe-collapses-in-nara-shots-heard-nhk-says</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>wirthjason</author><text>And after debating gun violence all week with my friends in the wake of the 4th of July shooting in Highland Park I made an example of Japan and it’s low gun violence. Now this happens.&lt;p&gt;Crazy stuff still happens in Japan but it’s usually a knife or ax. But guns and Abe are on another level.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bigDinosaur</author><text>They&amp;#x27;ve also had chemical weapon attacks which are scarier than gun attacks. Give me a person with a gun rather than some lethal chemical piped into the subway.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Tokyo_subway_sarin_attack&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Tokyo_subway_sarin_attack&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>