March 30, 1981, John Hinckley asked actress Jodie Foster for a date by shooting President Reagan. She declined, but Reagan went down in history as the first president to survive an assassination attempt…well if you don’t count the time Squeaky Fromme forgot to chamber a round in her Colt M1911A1 when she tried to shoot Gerald Ford. <\/p>\n
Hinckley remains in St Elizabeths Hospital in Washington, DC after the courts finding him not guilty by reason of insanity.<\/p>\n
Of course the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence<\/a>, named for James Brady, the Reagan staffer who was the other shooting victim that day, is using the anniversary of the event to push for more gun control<\/a> instead of better enforcement of current laws.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" March 30, 1981, John Hinckley asked actress Jodie Foster for a date by shooting President Reagan. She declined, but Reagan went down in history as the first president to survive an assassination attempt…well if you don’t count the time Squeaky Fromme forgot to chamber a round in her Colt M1911A1 when she tried to shoot […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[82,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22756","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gun-grabbing-fascists","category-historical"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4ozh1-5V2","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22756","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22756"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22756\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}