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.
you don’t get it, he isn’t PURE anymore, he is stained and thus should be shunned from society!
The book ‘Determined’ makes a great point on how schizophrenia victims have been mistreated throughout history.
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.
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?
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?
Not an expert but from how I understand it that alone doesn’t qualify him to plead insanity. An insane person will act as if they are unaware of what they are doing is wrong.
President was a Republican. They all felt threatened and got scared as they do. Like when that same Republican banned assault rifles after black people started carrying them openly.
I was just a kid at the time and I was more concerned with whether or not my Gizmo plushy would turn into a gremlin at night.
That said, the public was pretty pissed at this court’s ruling. Why? I was too young to really comprehend it, but it was definitely a thing that dominated the news.
