The Notable Death Thread

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  1. Bruce Johnson

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    Yeah, I didn't realize it until maybe a year or so later, but there were many other notable deaths around that time like George Michael and Prince, and also other events like the U.S. election which got much more coverage.
     
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    That's why I named this thread as "Notable" deaths, not anything hagiographic. I doubt anyone had "83 years old, at home, cancer" as their prediction for him.
     
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    Bradford Freeman, last surviving member of WWII unit Easy Company, 101st Airborne Division, immortalized in the book and TV series Band of Brothers, dead at 97.

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    I binge watched Band of Brothers. Planning to do it again soon. I lost an uncle at the bulge. He went ashore at Calais after D-Day.
     
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    James Caan, dead at 82.

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    Beat me to it.
     
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    Former Japanese prime minister Shinzo Abe, assassinated this morning for as-yet unknown reasons.

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    The articles I read said the killer had fashioned a working shotgun from a replica, which are apparently legal in Japan.
     
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    From some unfocused cell-phone pics, it looks definitely homemade. From the video footage, the shell looks like it was black powder, big white plume from both shots. Neither of those is legal in Japan. One area of possible confusion is that given Japan's nearly absolute ban on private gun ownership, it's perfectly legal to own hyperrealistic replicas like airsoft guns. No real guns, no problems, much like carrying a perfect replica of a phased plasma rifle in the 40 watt range would be in even Massachusetts or California.
     
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    No, a coworker commutes from there.
     
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    I still have vivid memories of Sonny and the bridesmaid in the closet at Mike's wedding.

    Abe must have been some kind of personal vendetta since he is no longer in power.
     
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    Unknown, but he was still an MP and a "faction" ( read "caucus" in USian) leader.

    Honestly I'm not ruling out that Hello Kitty promised him Sailor Moon's hand in marriage if he succeeded, see my comments otherwhere on the unfortunate state of our mental health care system.
     
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    A replica of what?

    The "shotgun" used was two lengths of pipe attached to a board with black electrical tape. He apparently used gunpowder obtained by disassembling fireworks, and had some sort of electrical firing mechanism powered by a radio-controlled car battery.

    I guess you could call that a shotgun ... but I wouldn't call it a shotgun.
     
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    Whatever you call it, it did what guns are intended to do.
     
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    First they shot Abe Lincoln. Now they shot Abe Shinzo.
     
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    You probably have to be of a certain age to remember him, but Larry Storch dead at 99.

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