There have been at least 15 known
assassination attempts on our American leaders in the past 150 years.
A would-be assassin fired a weapon at Teddy Roosevelt while
he was campaigning in Milwaukee in 1912. Roosevelt was struck but by a stroke
of supreme luck the bullet was slowed by Roosevelt’s eyeglasses case and a copy
of his folded-up speech in his pocket. The bullet was never removed from
Roosevelt’s body.
Two attempts were made on Gerald Ford’s life.
Presidential candidate George Wallace was paralyzed for life
after being hit by an assassin’s bullet.
John F. Kennedy, Bobby Kennedy, Martin Luther King, Jr., Malcolm X, Ronald Reagan, Abraham Lincoln, Harvey Milk, George Moscone, Gabby Gifford,
James Garfield, Warren Harding, Andrew Jackson… should I go on?
Yep. America sure loves its guns. Especially crazies who
have no business having access to a gun. We loves our guns even more than our
leaders, even more than our precious children.
