No guns involved, so I guess it's not so bad. I'm kinda surprised Japan doesn't have extensive commonsense flammable liquid safety laws, along with comprehensive background checks and red flag laws. How much longer will Japanese legislators and other politicians wait before they do something? No one needs sprayable accelerants!
Man shouting ‘You die’ kills 33 at Japan anime studiohttps://www.apnews.com/b10907eaf37945889d9ee4339df92aaaTOKYO (AP) — A man screaming “You die!” burst into an animation studio in Kyoto, doused it with a flammable liquid and set it on fire Thursday, killing 33 people in an attack that shocked the country and brought an outpouring of grief from anime fans.
Thirty-six others were injured, some of them critically, in a blaze that sent people scrambling up the stairs toward the roof in a desperate — and futile — attempt to escape what proved to be Japan’s deadliest fire in nearly two decades. Others emerged bleeding, blackened and barefoot.
The blaze started in the three-story building in Japan’s ancient capital after the attacker sprayed an unidentified liquid accelerant, police and fire officials said.
The death toll exceeded that of a 2016 attack by a man who stabbed and killed 19 people at a nursing home in Tokyo.
A fire in 2001 in Tokyo’s congested Kabukicho entertainment district killed 44 people in the country’s worst known case of arson in modern times. Police never announced an arrest in the setting of the blaze, though five people were convicted of negligence.