<story><title>Trump injured but ‘fine’ after attempted assassination at rally</title><url>https://apnews.com/article/trump-vp-vance-rubio-7c7ba6b99b5f38d2d840ed95b2fdc3e5</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>daseiner1</author><text>This is a horrible thing, but sadly nothing new. Pardon the Wikipedia block quote:&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; Four sitting presidents have been killed: Abraham Lincoln (1865, by John Wilkes Booth), James A. Garfield (1881, by Charles J. Guiteau), William McKinley (1901, by Leon Czolgosz), and John F. Kennedy (1963, by Lee Harvey Oswald). Additionally, two presidents have been injured in attempted assassinations: former president Theodore Roosevelt (1912, by John Schrank) and Ronald Reagan (1981, by John Hinckley Jr.)&lt;p&gt;If anything we’ve been “overdue”.</text></item><item><author>jkic47</author><text>How the hell did we get here?&lt;p&gt;At a fundamental level, we seem to have lost our sense of what Democracy means.&lt;p&gt;The rules are &amp;quot;I can think you are crass, wrong, bigoted, geriatric, etc., but if a majority of my countrymen think otherwise, we accept we are not successful in the battle of ideas, and fight another battle of ideas in 4 years&amp;quot;. Unless this is a lone, unstable individual, it is more evidence that our system needs more balance.&lt;p&gt;Truly sad that we&amp;#x27;ve descended to this level</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dredmorbius</author><text>Excepting Eisenhower and Johnson, every US president (or president-elect) has been subject to an assassination attempt dating back nearly a century to Herbert Hoover (1929--1933).&lt;p&gt;Shots have been fired at FDR, Truman, Kennedy(†), Ford, Reagan, Clinton, and yesterday.&lt;p&gt;Bombs or explosives have been placed or deployed against Hoover,  Truman, Kennedy, GHW Bush, Clinton, GW Bush, and Obama.&lt;p&gt;&amp;lt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;List_of_United_States_presidential_assassination_attempts_and_plots&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;List_of_United_States_presiden...&lt;/a&gt;&amp;gt;</text></comment>
<story><title>Trump injured but ‘fine’ after attempted assassination at rally</title><url>https://apnews.com/article/trump-vp-vance-rubio-7c7ba6b99b5f38d2d840ed95b2fdc3e5</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>daseiner1</author><text>This is a horrible thing, but sadly nothing new. Pardon the Wikipedia block quote:&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; Four sitting presidents have been killed: Abraham Lincoln (1865, by John Wilkes Booth), James A. Garfield (1881, by Charles J. Guiteau), William McKinley (1901, by Leon Czolgosz), and John F. Kennedy (1963, by Lee Harvey Oswald). Additionally, two presidents have been injured in attempted assassinations: former president Theodore Roosevelt (1912, by John Schrank) and Ronald Reagan (1981, by John Hinckley Jr.)&lt;p&gt;If anything we’ve been “overdue”.</text></item><item><author>jkic47</author><text>How the hell did we get here?&lt;p&gt;At a fundamental level, we seem to have lost our sense of what Democracy means.&lt;p&gt;The rules are &amp;quot;I can think you are crass, wrong, bigoted, geriatric, etc., but if a majority of my countrymen think otherwise, we accept we are not successful in the battle of ideas, and fight another battle of ideas in 4 years&amp;quot;. Unless this is a lone, unstable individual, it is more evidence that our system needs more balance.&lt;p&gt;Truly sad that we&amp;#x27;ve descended to this level</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>LarsDu88</author><text>6&amp;#x2F;45 presidents have been shot today.&lt;p&gt;Today that number is 7&amp;#x2F;45&lt;p&gt;So it went from 13% to 15%. Not only that, but firearms technology has advanced considerably. If anything, statistically speaking we&amp;#x27;ve been incredibly lucky in the past 30 years</text></comment>