Guns don't kill presidents, Democrats do.

[EmptyTimCup]

Guns don't kill presidents, Democrats do.

Politically motivated presidential assassinations come from only one side of the political spectrum.

By Christopher Cook


The caption under her photo reads...

"Sara Jane Moore, shown here in a photo from 1975, said she was blinded by her radical political views at the time, convinced that the government had declared war on the left."

We have been pointing out for a long time that political violence is part of the left's stock and trade, and that political violence perpetrated by Republicans is almost non-existent.**

With that in mind, the news of Sara Jane Moore's release—and a recognition of her motive and political identity—got me to thinking. Of our list of presidential assassins and would-be assassins, what were their political persuasions and motivations?


In the interests of time, I have chosen to use Wikipedia as my first source. Wikipedia has a few problems with both bias and reliability, but if you know how to navigate and use their list of citiations, you can usually get relatively decent information.

So let's just proceed down the list together. I am doing this as I write, so I do not know what the final results will be. Let's get started.

See post for list of Assassins

[Baja28]

I got through most of the list and only saw one democrat.

[vraiblonde]

Originally Posted by Baja28

I got through most of the list and only saw one democrat.

What part of "mentally ill" didn't you catch?

[EmptyTimCup]

Originally Posted by vraiblonde

What part of "mentally ill" didn't you catch?

Oooo SNAP

[EmptyTimCup]

Originally Posted by Baja28

I got through most of the list and only saw one democrat.

Several were Marxist ....

Assassinations:

President: Abraham Lincoln (R)
Assassin: John Wilkes Booth
Political identity and motive:
Booth was a Democrat, angry that Lincoln had freed the slaves and preserved the Union.



President: James A. Garfield (R)
Assassin: Charles J. Guiteau
Political identity and motive:
Guiteau was frustrated that he did not receive a political appointment in the Garfield administration, and he believed "that God had commanded him to kill the ungrateful President." Since we can assume that God did not, in fact, command him in this way, we must deem Guiteau mentally unstable.


President: William McKinley (R)
Assassin: Leon Czolgosz
Political identity and motive:
Czolgosz was an anarchist who believed that "there was a great injustice in American society, an inequality which allowed the wealthy to enrich themselves by exploiting the poor," and that he had to do something about it. Mimicking the assassination of King Umberto I of Italy, done for similar reasons, he shot and killed McKinley. Oddly, Czolgosz had earlier voted Republican, but the assassination motive was clearly as described above.


President: John F. Kennedy (D)
Assassin: Lee Harvey Oswald
Political identity and motive:
Defector to the USSR. Earlier attempted to kill General Edwin Walker, who was "an outspoken anti-communist, segregationist and member of the John Birch Society." Controversy about the assassination continues to persist, and Oswald was killed before any real digging could be done, so we are primarily left with his identity (as a defector to the USSR) as the prime indicator.

I would consider a defector to the USSR a lefty ....


and the Anarchist well .. its own class



attempted by marxist group:

President: Harry S Truman (D)
Would-be assassin: Oscar Collazo and Griselio Torresola
Political identity and motive:
Oscar Collazo and Griselio Torresola were members of the Puerto Rican Nationalist Party. Puerto Rican Nationalists, represented by Marxist terrorist groups such as FALN, who were responsible for scores of bombings in the U.S.; they were arguably the most active terrorist group in U.S. history.

[BuddyLee]

Originally Posted by EmptyTimCup

President: Abraham Lincoln (R)
Assassin: John Wilkes Booth
Political identity and motive:
Booth was a Democrat, angry that Lincoln had freed the slaves and preserved the Union.

A Democrat back then was a Republican of today.

Booth was more of a Republican than a Democrat and Lincoln was more of a Democrat than Republican, according to today's definition.

[TurboK9]

Originally Posted by BuddyLee

A Democrat back then was a Republican of today.

Booth was more of a Republican than a Democrat and Lincoln was more of a Democrat than Republican, according to today's definition.

Is that the definition as rewritten by the Dem party, to attempt to fool everyone into believing that the party that freed the slaves and fought for civil rights in the 60's is the racist party?

[BuddyLee]

Originally Posted by TurboK9

Is that the definition as rewritten by the Dem party, to attempt to fool everyone into believing that the party that freed the slaves and fought for civil rights in the 60's is the racist party?

Yep, that'd be the one.

[JollyRoger]

Originally Posted by vraiblonde

What part of "mentally ill" didn't you catch?

He don't read well, cut him some slack!