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Originally Posted by Montana Moe
Excellent post.
I think the frequency of American Presidential assassination attempts might have more to do with the President's station in the world, and a measurable amount of people that are sympathizers for a cause and/or mentally ill.
Plenty of assassination attempts on U.S. Presidents have occurred without firearms as well. Banning handguns and/or assault rifles would not have prevented Kennedy's murder.
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21% of US Presidents with successful or unsuccessful assassination attempts against them is a startling stat. I'd have to do some digging but I don't think that any other Western, established country would have a similar stat. I doubt that it's even be close. I am also guessing that it's Americans with access to guns doing the deeds, not foreigners, but I'd have to check on this as well.
The 10 that I listed (Ford had 2 attempts against him) all involved or intended to involve firearms. Which assassination attempts haven't involved firearms?