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You are here: Home / Politics / The Answer is Clear

The Answer is Clear

by John Cole|  September 16, 200311:47 am| 6 Comments

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I don’t know how this happened:

A man reportedly involved in a pay dispute set off an explosion Tuesday that killed himself, a hostage and a police officer in an office building in western Japan. Twenty-three people in the city of Nagoya were injured in the blast, which blew out a row of windows and started a fire that burned for more than an hour in a violent climax to a three-hour standoff televised by national media…

Armed with a knife, he burst into the parcel delivery company, took eight employees hostage and doused the floor with an unidentified liquid, said Makoto Furuta, a state police spokesman. People evacuating the building said they smelled gasoline.

It just doesn’t make sense- Japan has super strict gun control laws.

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  1. 1.

    Ricky

    September 16, 2003 at 12:04 pm

    A prescription drug benefit plan could alleviate such behavior.

  2. 2.

    Mason

    September 16, 2003 at 12:29 pm

    QUAGMIRE!

  3. 3.

    Patrick

    September 16, 2003 at 1:03 pm

    It’s a Zionist consipracy, all about OIIILLLLL, approved by our unelected president and his Nazi Attorney General.

  4. 4.

    David Perron

    September 16, 2003 at 1:28 pm

    Patrick wins the prize, although he forgot to mention that Bush is a puppet of the evil Rove.

  5. 5.

    Ricky

    September 16, 2003 at 6:22 pm

    That’s unka karl to you, brownshirt.

  6. 6.

    Kimmitt

    September 16, 2003 at 6:23 pm

    Homicide rates (per 100,000):
    Japan: 0.6
    US: 5.7

    By Firearm:
    Japan: 0.02
    US: 3.2

    HTH. HAND.

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