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Abe's assassination came like a thunderbolt

Abe's assassination came like a thunderbolt

[html]The news that former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe was assassinated Friday, at the age of 67, during a campaign rally came like a thunderbolt. If it was shocking to people around the world, it was devastating in Japan, where gun violence is essentially non-existent. Abe's killing would have been appalling at any time. Now, however, it adds to the sense of an unstable world in crisis -- in which democracies, in particular, appear to be under siege.


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