Dude has like 45k subs on YouTube. Fucking weird.
You know, I ain’t mad.
Dude was crazy. Did something horrible (regardless of the horrible person he directly targeted, and he did harm two other people). Was in supervision and treatment for decades.
Why the fuck should anyone care if he’s trying to do something with what’s left of his life? If he had gone to jail, I’d say he served his time, and that’s the end of it.
He Was in supervised release at first, and hasn’t caused any trouble since.
Fuck it, let the man have a life. If we can’t give someone the chance to have changed after over thirty years, we’re all fucked. I’m not the same man I was at 25. I’m not the same man I was at 40. Mind you, I didn’t try to kill a president, but I was deep enough in the PTSD cycle that I’m kind of amazed I didn’t try something that insane. Gods know that I did my own dance with self destructive shit, and that included chasing more trauma sometimes.
Give people a chance to be better.
I’ve been following him on Twitter for awhile.
He sells bad paintings of orange cats that I desperately want to buy.
He keeps booking musical shows and then having to cancel them once the venue discovers who he is.
After Trump was shot at he made a statement condemning political violence
Nah dude, kinda sounds like prison actually worked as rehabilitation for this guy.
John did his time and just wants to make art and music. He lives close by to me and keeps getting booked and then cancelled at local venues. It’s lame.
TIL it’s possible to attempt murder on a sitting president’s life, and later live freely.
His charges were reduced because his lawyers were able to make the case that he was schizophrenic.
Pleading insanity became much harder in the US after that Hinckley’s case. The ruling was hotly debated.
He tried to kill the active President, not for political reasons, but to impress an actress who didn’t know he existed.
Mans bat shit. Why on earth would the diagnosis of crazy be challenged?
I was just a kid at the time and I was more concerned with whether or not my Gizmo plushy would turn into a gremlin at night.
That said, the public was pretty pissed at this court’s ruling. Why? I was too young to really comprehend it, but it was definitely a thing that dominated the news.
Good. We imagine how our society would have less issues if we focused more on real rehabilitation and reintegration, and less on retribution and *heaping on more trauma.
For most crimes I agree.
For murderers, pedophiles, rapists, drunk drivers, snd repeat assaulters I think it should be more about “we’re not reintegrating you back into society…at all. We’re just going to put you into a room and make it so you’re not a threat to society anymore”
And considering his was against the president, I’m surprised secret service didn’t shoot him dead on the spot.
He’s have more fans if he’d had better aim.
