In reference to
this CNN article:
A few people have already asked so I'll just answer it here. No I wasn't there, but I heard about it almost instantly since it ticked across the news banner on my phone. On my way home from shopping there were quite a few people on the train talking about it too.
This ought to give me some interesting ammo for the "guns are scary" and "America is scary" conversations though.
In any case I
could have been there. Akihabara is a pretty popular place to go on a Sunday afternoon and there are always big crowds. They close the streets and so I assume that is one reason he was able to be so "effective".
I'm curious what the reaction will be to this. I don't think you can make truck rentals illegal. It's also illegal to carry knives in public here, even a small pocket knife. It would be nice if this increases the amount of mental care available in Japan but that's just wishful thinking.
Update (1:43am JST):
The CNN article hasn't been updated yet, but this just came across my phone. There are now 7 dead. Six males: 19, 74, 47, 29, 20 and 33. One female: 21. 10 people are still listed as injured.
