This morning’s events are not exactly out of the US norm …
[[[[[ Historically, there have been assassination attempts against presidential candidates,” he said.“In 1968, Robert F Kennedy, Senator Bobby Kennedy, was shot and killed in California in June of that year, as he was campaigning for the presidency of the United States. “Four years later in 1972, Governor George Wallace of Alabama was campaigning for the Democratic nomination. He was shot and he was left permanently disabled, wheelchair-bound, after suffering from gunshot wounds then.More CoverageTrump rushed off stage after shots firedBiden’s one-word response to Trump shooting“We have seen a number of acts of political violence over the years in the United States. We haven’t, though, for many decades, so it is quite shocking to see this.”Four presidents – Abraham Lincoln, James A. Garfield, William McKinley and John Fitzgerald Kennedy – were killed during their term in office.Trump has become the third president or former president to survive an assassination attempt, after Theodore Roosevelt and Ronald Reagan.]]]]]
Fresh outrage by faded minds it seems.
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