Dude has like 45k subs on YouTube. Fucking weird.
You know, I ain’t mad.
Dude was crazy. Did something horrible (regardless of the horrible person he directly targeted, and he did harm two other people). Was in supervision and treatment for decades.
Why the fuck should anyone care if he’s trying to do something with what’s left of his life? If he had gone to jail, I’d say he served his time, and that’s the end of it.
He Was in supervised release at first, and hasn’t caused any trouble since.
Fuck it, let the man have a life. If we can’t give someone the chance to have changed after over thirty years, we’re all fucked. I’m not the same man I was at 25. I’m not the same man I was at 40. Mind you, I didn’t try to kill a president, but I was deep enough in the PTSD cycle that I’m kind of amazed I didn’t try something that insane. Gods know that I did my own dance with self destructive shit, and that included chasing more trauma sometimes.
Give people a chance to be better.
Also fuck it he shot Reagan, fuck that guy
He didn’t shoot Reagan for any of the billions of reasons Reagan deserved to be shot for, though… he did it as an attempt to impress Jodie Foster after developing an obsession with her after watching Taxi Driver about fifteen times.
It’s important to note that Foster had been twelve when shooting the film, and that even the deranged and mentally ill protagonist of said film abandons any sexual interest on her character the instant he becomes aware of her age, despite her being a child prostitute, and that the character said protagonist was trying to impress by shooting a politician was in her twenties (Foster was barely eighteen when Hinckley shot Reagan).
That’s why he didn’t go to jail, he spent 30 years in a mental hospital.
If someone had shot Hitler, I wouldn’t hate them for it.
If someone had shot Reagan and then gone on to be a jerk I’d dislike him for being a jerk.
In the words of Brutus “Brutal” Howell:
He’s paid what he’s owed. He’s square with the house again, so keep your goddamn hands off him.
I’ve been following him on Twitter for awhile.
He sells bad paintings of orange cats that I desperately want to buy.
He keeps booking musical shows and then having to cancel them once the venue discovers who he is.
After Trump was shot at he made a statement condemning political violence
That last one is crazy
Nah dude, kinda sounds like prison actually worked as rehabilitation for this guy.
He didn’t go to prison though, he went to a mental hospital for 30 years.
John did his time and just wants to make art and music. He lives close by to me and keeps getting booked and then cancelled at local venues. It’s lame.
Yeah if think about it he almost saved America, but like another person who I won’t name the fucker Regan lived. Wonder what world be like if he had been successful?
he almost saved America
It would have been entirely accidentally, though.
He didn’t shoot Reagan for being Reagan, he shot him because he wanted to impress Jodie Foster after developing an obsession with her (who’d been twelve when filming and was eighteen at the time of the attempt on Reagan’s life) after watching Taxi Driver about fifteen times.
Oh I know why he did it, just saying he could’ve been seen as a hero instead of a crazy person.
Are we gonna gloss over the fact that he blamed Cancel Culture.
I don’t think this guy knows what Cancel Culture is.
He was a man of vision. I didn’t care about his music though.
speaking of which, why do these maniacs fail only when it’s the worst presidents?
He’s have more fans if he’d had better aim.
TIL it’s possible to attempt murder on a sitting president’s life, and later live freely.
His charges were reduced because his lawyers were able to make the case that he was schizophrenic.
Pleading insanity became much harder in the US after that Hinckley’s case. The ruling was hotly debated.
He tried to kill the active President, not for political reasons, but to impress an actress who didn’t know he existed.
Mans bat shit. Why on earth would the diagnosis of crazy be challenged?
Good. We imagine how our society would have less issues if we focused more on real rehabilitation and reintegration, and less on retribution and *heaping on more trauma.
Any armchair historians care to theorize what would happen had he succeeded?
He’d still be in prison.
