Attempted assassin of President Ronald Reagan, John Hinckley Jr has been freed from prison. The judge has ruled that he is no longer a danger to himself or anyone else. Hinckley has been spending 17 days a month at home with his 90 year old mother and the rest of his time at St. Elizabeth’s Hospital in Washington, D.C.. St. Elizabeth’s Hospital says that they have a constitutional duty to transition patients from their care back to their civilian life. The hospital testified over a year ago that Hinckley was ready for release.
Some people will be outraged that a man can shoot up the president of the United States and three others and still be free for the remaining years of his life. Hinckley is now 61 years of age.
Hinckley was obsessed with Jodi Foster and he decided to try to assassinate Reagan like the movie starring Robert DeNiro depicted. Taxi Driver was about a man obsessed with a young hooker. He tries to win her love by killing the president. This all happened before Foster came out as gay.
From Wikipedia:
On March 30, 1981, at 2:27 p.m. local time,[2] Hinckley shot a .22 caliber Röhm RG-14 revolver six times at Reagan as he left the Hilton Hotel in Washington, D.C., after the president addressed an AFL–CIO conference.
Hinckley wounded police officer Thomas Delahanty and Secret Service agent Timothy McCarthy, and critically wounded press secretary James Brady. Hinckley did not hit Reagan directly, but seriously wounded him when a bullet ricocheted off the side of the presidential limousine and hit him in the chest.[9] Hinckley did not try to flee and was arrested at the scene. All of the shooting victims survived. Brady was hit in the right side of the head, and endured a long recuperation period, remaining paralyzed on the left side of his body[10] until his death on August 4, 2014. Brady’s death was ruled a homicide.
Sirhan Sirhan, the man who murdered Robert Kennedy has been in custody for 48 years and is not eligible for parole until 2021. He should have shot a republican.