Here is a picture posted by Marc Sonnenberg.
It was taken 2 seconds before Reagan was shot. He was surrounded by Secret Service agents, who are some of the most finely trained gunmen and security experts we have in this country.
Hinckley fired a Röhm RG-14 .22 cal. blue steel revolver six times in 1.7 seconds, missing the president with all six shots.The first bullet hit White House Press Secretary James Brady in the head. The second hit District of Columbia police officer Thomas Delahanty in the back of his neck as he turned to protect Reagan.Hinckley now had a clear shot at the president,but the third overshot him and hit the window of a building across the street. As Special Agent In Charge Jerry Parr quickly pushed Reagan into the limousine, the fourth hit Secret Service agent Timothy McCarthy in the abdomen as he spread his body over Reagan to make himself a target.The fifth hit the bullet-resistant glass of the window on the open side door of the limousine. The sixth and final bullet ricocheted off the armored side of the limousine and hit the president in his left underarm, grazing a rib and lodging in his lung, stopping nearly 1 inch (25mm) from his heart.Had Parr hesitated for a moment, the president would likely have been hit in the head. [Wikipedia].
This is what it looked like a couple of seconds later:
And yes, this assassination attempt on Reagan on March 30, 1981 was by a mentally ill person.
This is the part of the entire debate that seems to be missing!
If you were there with a gun, what could you have, reasonably, done?
If we restrict magazine sizes, what about the hundreds of thousands that have been purchased in the past few months mostly due to the fear that you might?
Like so many of the issues this country faces, this entire thing seems to have been hijacked by the political and corporate interests that stand to make hay by sowing fear and simplistic solutions.
Right! The entire country is run that way. However, we have to start with SOMETHING! We cannot just throw up our hands and leave things the way they are, because they have always been that way 🙂
Please put your name or website on the “2 seconds before” poster. it should go viral
Reblogged this on Norbert Haupt and commented:
Here is a post I wrote on April 8, 2013 – note that this is almost five years ago, before Trump was even on our horizon as a serious candidate. I called it them. Guns in school won’t make children safer. Then – or Now.