{"id":2302789,"date":"2024-07-20T19:11:02","date_gmt":"2024-07-20T23:11:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/man-who-shot-reagan-speaks-out-after-assassination-attempt-against-trump-not-the-way-to-go\/"},"modified":"2024-07-20T19:13:45","modified_gmt":"2024-07-20T23:13:45","slug":"reagan-shooter-warns-against-violence-towards-trump-not-the-answer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/reagan-shooter-warns-against-violence-towards-trump-not-the-answer\/","title":{"rendered":"Reagan shooter warns against violence towards Trump: &#8216;Not the answer"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Freagan-shooter-warns-against-violence-towards-trump-not-the-answer%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2302789&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Former President Donald Trump narrowly escaped an \u200bassassination attempt \u2064by 20-year-old Thomas Matthew Crooks at a rally in \u200cPennsylvania. This\u200d incident recalls the attempted assassination of President Ronald Reagan by John Hinkley Jr.\u200d in 1981. Hinkley, who has since been\u200d released, now advocates for peace. In a tweet, \u2064he urges against violence and\u200b calls \u200dfor giving peace a chance. Despite Biden&#8217;s calls for lowering tensions,\u200c the political\u2062 climate remains heated, with Trump and \u200chis supporters labeled as threats to democracy. Hinkley&#8217;s message of peace\u2063 serves as a reminder of\u200d the consequences of violence\u2063 and the \u2063importance of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/netanyahu-warns-palestinians-to-leave-gaza-as-israel-hits-hamas-were-going-to-turn-it-into-rubble\/\" title=\"Netanyahu warns Palestinians in Gaza to evacuate as Israel strikes Hamas, vowing to reduce it to ruins.\">seeking peaceful solutions<\/a>.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<section> <script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC1)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC2)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC3)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC4)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (REP_0)\")<\/script><\/p>\n<p>Last Saturday, former President Donald Trump nearly became the fifth U.S. president to be assassinated &ndash; and the first while out of office &ndash; as an assassin&rsquo;s bullet tore through his ear during a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania.<\/p>\n<p>The would-be perpetrator of this offense was 20-year-old Thomas Matthew Crooks.<\/p>\n<p>Crooks came close to joining a list of names forever held in infamy for committing such a vile deed &ndash; John Wilkes Booth, Charles Giteau, Leon Czolgosz, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/newly-released-cia-documents-reveal-lee-harvey-oswalds-suspicious-meeting-just-jfk-assassination\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Lee Harvey Oswald<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Instead, he now finds himself in the company of a man still alive in 2024 for his attempted assassination of President Ronald Reagan.<\/p>\n<p>At just 25 years old, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reaganlibrary.gov\/permanent-exhibits\/assassination-attempt\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">John Hinkley Jr. shot Reagan<\/a> on March 30, 1981, just as the president was beginning the first of what would be two terms in office. Hinkley suffered from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/blm-cofounder-nuclear-family-for-me-not-for-thee\/\" title=\"BLM Cofounder: Nuclear Family for Me, Not for Thee\">severe mental illness<\/a> and had developed an obsession with actress Jodie Foster.<\/p>\n<p>  <script> \t\t\t\tif( ! getCookie( 'ff_subbed' ) ) if( typeof FFADS.replace_ict !='undefined' ) if( FFADS.replace_ict ) eval( FFADS.replace_ict ); \t\t\t<\/script> <\/p>\n<p>He believed shooting Reagan would impress her.<\/p>\n<p>Now, after Crooks&rsquo; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/drone-found-played-major-part-trump-assassination-attempt\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">attempt on Trump&rsquo;s life<\/a>, Hinkley is speaking out.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Violence is not the way to go,&rdquo; Hinckley wrote. &ldquo;Give peace a chance.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Violence is not the way to go. Give peace a chance.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; John Hinckley (@JohnHinckley20) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JohnHinckley20\/status\/1813618282500653337?\">July 17, 2024<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>While the post is ambiguous as Hinkley does not explicitly say he&rsquo;s referring to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/shooters-classmate-drops-bombshell-crooks-linked-school-shooting-plot\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Crook&rsquo;s actions<\/a>, it&rsquo;s safe to assume given the timing. If there is anyone alive today who can speak to trying to take a president&rsquo;s life as &ldquo;not the way to go,&rdquo; Hinkley is that person.<\/p>\n<p>After his misguided attempt to take Reagan&rsquo;s life, Hinkley was lucky to escape with his life after wounding not just the president, but Press Secretary James Brady, Secret Service Agent Timothy McCarthy, and Police Officer Thomas Delahanty.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/news\/us-news\/john-hinckley-get-full-freedom-41-years-shooting-ronald-reagan-rcna31487\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">It was 41 long years<\/a> of Hinkley&rsquo;s life before he was completely free of every restraint.<\/p>\n<p>Hinkley spent two decades in a mental hospital and in 2003 was allowed to spend longer periods of time in the community at the discretion of U.S. District <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/wife-trump-russia-hoax-peddler-indicted-us-court-accused-foreign-agent\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Court<\/a> Judge Paul L. Friedman.<\/p>\n<p>After a decision by Friedman to completely allow Hinkley to live his life as he wished as of June 2022, the failed assassin can be seen posting videos of himself playing guitar to his YouTube channel. A quick scroll through of his account of X will show his latest posts are mostly about near-identical cat painting he does.<\/p>\n<p>That is all to say, Hinkley as Friedman decided is, &ldquo;no longer a danger to himself or others.&rdquo; There is an authenticity that emanates from his words after the consequences of his actions saw him in custody for most of his life.<\/p>\n<p>As Hinkley put it, we should all be giving peace a chance.<\/p>\n<p>Leftist rhetoric almost caused Trump to lose his life while Corey Comperatore&rsquo;s family lost a husband and father.<\/p>\n<p>President Joe Biden and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/reporter-reveals-biden-called-aging-colleague-senate-democrats-now-giving-treatment\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Democratic Party<\/a> have <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/watch-through-the-years-biden-tells-the-american-public-hunter-did-nothing-wrong\/\" title=\"VIDEO: Biden Defends Hunter, Insists He&#039;s Innocent\">spent years insisting<\/a> that Trump and &ldquo;MAGA Republicans&rdquo; are an existential threat to &ldquo;our democracy.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>While Biden addressed the nation from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=74CnCdgQPp4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Oval Office on Sunday<\/a> and insisted that we all &ldquo;lower the temperature,&rdquo; maybe it is Hinkley&rsquo;s words we should all be heeding as the president seems to be ignoring his own advice.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div style=\"position: relative;\">\n<div class=\"ff-fancy-header-container\">  <\/div>\n<div class=\"entry-submit-correction inner-content\">\n<div class=\"correction-form\">\n<form style=\"display: none;\">\n<div class=\"sc-name-field\"> <label>* Name<\/label> <br \/> <input type=\"text\" name=\"name\" required> <\/div>\n<div class=\"sc--field\"> <label>* <\/label> <br \/> <input type=\"text\" name=\"\" required> <\/div>\n<p> <label>* Message<\/label> <br \/> <textarea name=\"message\" required><\/textarea>  <\/p>\n<div class=\"required-message\" style=\"display: none; padding-bottom: 15px;\">* All fields are required.<\/div>\n<p> <input type=\"submit\" value=\"Submit\" onclick=\"event.preventDefault(); firefly_sc();\">  <\/p>\n<div class=\"firefly-sc-confirm\" style=\"display: none;\">Success!<\/div>\n<\/p><\/form>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p> <script> \t\t\tfunction firefly_sc() { \t\t\t\tif( typeof window.captchaPublicKey==typeof undefined ){ \t\t\t\t\tconsole.error('window.captchaPublicKey is not defined'); \t\t\t\t} \t\t\t\tgrecaptcha.execute( window.captchaPublicKey, { action: 'submit_correction' } ).then( function( token ) { \t\t\t\t\tvar opts={ \t\t\t\t\t\taction:    'firefly_sc_submit', \t\t\t\t\t\tname:      document.querySelector( '.entry-submit-correction [name=\"name\"]' ).value, \t\t\t\t\t\t:     document.querySelector( '.entry-submit-correction [name=\"\"]' ).value, \t\t\t\t\t\tmessage:   document.querySelector( '.entry-submit-correction [name=\"message\"]' ).value, \t\t\t\t\t\tpost_id:   firefly_post_id, \t\t\t\t\t\tcap_token: token \t\t\t\t\t}  \t\t\t\t\tvar inputs=[ 'name', '', 'message' ];  \t\t\t\t\tfor( var i=0; i <inputs.length; i++ ) if( ! 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This incident almost added Trump to the list of assassinated U.S. presidents, but he survived with just a bullet through his ear. John Hinckley Jr., who attempted to assassinate President Ronald Reagan in 1981, has spoken out against violence after Crooks&#8217; attempt on Trump&#8217;s life. Hinckley spent years in a mental hospital before being released in 2022 and now advocates for peace. Despite President Biden&#8217;s calls to lower the political temperature, Hinckley&#8217;s message of peace may be more relevant<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2302790,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Picture-61.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[5634,6842,3634,3699],"class_list":["post-2302789","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-reagan","tag-shooter","tag-trump","tag-violence"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Picture-61.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2302789","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2302789"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2302789\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2302790"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2302789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2302789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2302789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}