Word: hinckleys
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Schickel, a TIME Cinema critic, ruefully considers all aspects of celebrity, including the dark facet of notoriety. John W. Hinckley Jr. stands as an exemplar, a recipient of that "wildly parodistic version of celebrity treatment that is accorded the criminal who has assaulted a well-known person. He gets a police escort and a motorcade . . . For the first time in his hitherto anonymous life people will be curious about his history, his thoughts. In due course, his ravings may find their way into print. Or he will have his story told by a famous novelist...
Ronald Reagan, during a farewell visit with retiring Secret Service Agent Jerry Parr, 54, who pushed him into his limousine during the Hinckley assassination attempt: "You want to just stand here, or you want to throw me over the couch...
...unfathomable, purpose. We suspect a reason, some powerful, twisted logic. Anomic violence, on the other hand, is truly senseless. Thus crimes of madness elicit from us revulsion; crimes of need (like Jean Valjean's) sympathy; but crimes for fun, for a video game, for no purpose, elicit rage. John Hinckley Jr. did more damage in a minute than these four combined had done in a lifetime. But there could be no satisfaction in blowing him away. Blow these four away, and you are ready to run for mayor...
...somebody like me can buy six Saturday-night specials (pistols) with case, there is something drastically wrong. I'm considering giving my support to the National Coalition to Ban Handguns. John Hinckley...
...point, only months before the attempt on Reagan's life, Hinckley was arrested for carrying firearms on a plane bound for Nashville. He was fined sixty dollars, held for a few hours and released. Hours after the Washington shootings, a copy of the Second Amendment, which guarantees (depending on one's interpretation) "the right of the people to bear arms..." was discovered in Hinckley's wallet...