John
Hinckley, Jr. has been granted a full-time release from the psychiatric
hospital where he had been living since shortly after he tried to assassinate
President Reagan. He will not be allowed
to own a gun at this point, he must work- or volunteer- three days a week, and
he isn’t allowed to have any overnight guests while he is living in his
mother’s home in Williamsburg, Virginia. (Though it is possible authorities may
phase out even these restrictions in 12-18 months).
One privilege he has immediately
regained is his “right” to vote. That’s right, the man who missed killing
President Reagan by less than one inch
(the bullet lodged in a lung after passing within an inch of his heart), the
man who shot James Brady inflicting permanent brain damage, the man who shot a
police officer in the back and a secret service agent in the abdomen, the only
living man to have shot a U.S. president…will be eligible to cast a vote in the
upcoming presidential election.
A
good general guideline, a rule-of-thumb as it were, would be: if you’ve ever shot a U.S. president, you don’t ever get to vote for one.
He
can do still more damage by voting for Hillary.
Maybe Jodie Foster will finally
be impressed.
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