What do these assassins have in common:
Assassin Target Ideology of assassin
| Guiseppe Zangara | FDR | Anarchism |
| Oscar Collazo and Griselio Torresola | Harry Truman | Puerto Rican Nationalist Party |
| Charles Guiteau | James Garfield | N/A; just crazy |
| John Wilkes Booth | Abe Lincoln | Anti-government |
| Lee Harvey Oswald | JFK | Marxism |
| James Earl Ray | Martin Luther King | N/A; wanted notoriety; racism |
| John Hinckley Jr. | Ronald Reagan | N/A; just crazy |
| Leon Czolgosz | William McKinley | Anarchism |
| Sirhan Sirhan | Bobby Kennedy | Anti-Semitism |
| Mark David Chapman | John Lennon | N/A; just crazy |
It’s not that they were all men or they all used a gun which is all true. No, the commonalty is that none of these assassins were conservatives.
Now, far-Left bomb-throwers might say Booth and Ray are conservatives. Booth because he was anti-gov’t and Ray because he was a racist.
Well, Booth was from the south during the Civil War and he was against the Union. That’s why I classified him as anti-gov’t. Plus, conservatism wasn’t even an ideology back then. And the Republican party was brand new too.
As for James Earl Ray well anyone can be a racist. That might not be the real motive for the assassination anyway. This murderer had a history of crimes and probably wanted to be infamous.
You can’t say Hinckley Jr. is a conservative. I don’t remember the press ever questioning if he was on the far-Left or not though. I wonder why. Hmmm….
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