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Below is a list of well known assassins. Some of you might say, “Wow! I sympathize with some of those guys.” Such as the ones who tried to kill Hitler. Come to think of it, since Hitler himself killed the leader of the Third Reich (i.e. himself), was he an assassin?
Anyway…..people who openly carry are indistinguishable – physically indistinguishable – from assassins. We who do not carry cannot be assassins because we don’t have the tools for it. We might be inclined to be assassins, but we are non-functioning ones until or unless we strap on a gun. Open carriers, on the other hand, are at least potential assassins in the blink of an eye and a dark turn of mind.
That’s what makes OC so scary. Very few Open Carriers have anything but benign self defense in mind behind packing a gat, but how do you know which is which, and who is who? Since most people don’t openly carry (less than 10% of us certainly and probably less than 5%), the safest assumption when encountering a man with a gun, regardless of its statistical rationale, is to assume the worst, i.e. that he’s bent on mayhem and you’d better get the hell out of his way
There was a tale on the internet about a guy with a gun (in a holster) standing in line for a money order. The guy behind him asked him if he was a police officer. The gun guy said he wasn’t. The guy behind continued to stare at him and his gun. The guy with the gun finally turned around and said to the guy behind, “Are we good?” The conversation stopped and the guy behind departed to do his banking another day. The guy with the gun said he didn’t intend to intimidate anyone but he had a right to ‘carry’ and people who don’t understand that need to ‘read up on it’ and find out what their rights are, which he has an obligation to defend.
Well maybe he’s right but meanwhile people he encounters in his daily life are going to be ‘intimidated’ by him, so he better think about that. It is not unreasonable to imagine the scenario working out slightly differently: After the guy with the gun turns around to say, “Are we good?”,the guy behind might say something like, “Ok, ok!” and shuts up; then when the gun guy turns back around, the guy behind might quietly slip his belt out of his pants and make a garrote out of it and strangle the SOB, at least enough to take his gun away from him and dispose of it as a ‘public danger’. Could happen and probably has.
So, anyway, back to the question: How do you distinguish an OCer from an assassin, unless you know him? Here’s the list: (Oh, and PS – since ‘don’t feed the troll’ is the mantra around here, with luck, this will be the only post on this thread. Let’s see what happens – swine).
Below is a list of well known assassins. Some of you might say, “Wow! I sympathize with some of those guys.” Such as the ones who tried to kill Hitler. Come to think of it, since Hitler himself killed the leader of the Third Reich (i.e. himself), was he an assassin?
Anyway…..people who openly carry are indistinguishable – physically indistinguishable – from assassins. We who do not carry cannot be assassins because we don’t have the tools for it. We might be inclined to be assassins, but we are non-functioning ones until or unless we strap on a gun. Open carriers, on the other hand, are at least potential assassins in the blink of an eye and a dark turn of mind.
That’s what makes OC so scary. Very few Open Carriers have anything but benign self defense in mind behind packing a gat, but how do you know which is which, and who is who? Since most people don’t openly carry (less than 10% of us certainly and probably less than 5%), the safest assumption when encountering a man with a gun, regardless of its statistical rationale, is to assume the worst, i.e. that he’s bent on mayhem and you’d better get the hell out of his way
There was a tale on the internet about a guy with a gun (in a holster) standing in line for a money order. The guy behind him asked him if he was a police officer. The gun guy said he wasn’t. The guy behind continued to stare at him and his gun. The guy with the gun finally turned around and said to the guy behind, “Are we good?” The conversation stopped and the guy behind departed to do his banking another day. The guy with the gun said he didn’t intend to intimidate anyone but he had a right to ‘carry’ and people who don’t understand that need to ‘read up on it’ and find out what their rights are, which he has an obligation to defend.
Well maybe he’s right but meanwhile people he encounters in his daily life are going to be ‘intimidated’ by him, so he better think about that. It is not unreasonable to imagine the scenario working out slightly differently: After the guy with the gun turns around to say, “Are we good?”,the guy behind might say something like, “Ok, ok!” and shuts up; then when the gun guy turns back around, the guy behind might quietly slip his belt out of his pants and make a garrote out of it and strangle the SOB, at least enough to take his gun away from him and dispose of it as a ‘public danger’. Could happen and probably has.
So, anyway, back to the question: How do you distinguish an OCer from an assassin, unless you know him? Here’s the list: (Oh, and PS – since ‘don’t feed the troll’ is the mantra around here, with luck, this will be the only post on this thread. Let’s see what happens – swine).
- Mehmet Ali Ağca – would be assassin of Pope John Paul II (1981)
- Yigal Amir - assassin of Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin (1995)
- Jean-Marie Bastien-Thiry - would-be assassin of Charles de Gaulle (1962)
- Byron De La Beckwith - convicted assassin of civil rights figure Medgar Evers (1963)
- John Wilkes Booth - assassin of President Abraham Lincoln (1870)
- Arthur Herman Bremer - would-be assassin of Governor George Wallace, (1972)
- Oscar Collazo & Griselio Torresola - would-be assassins of President Harry S Truman
- Mark David Chapman - assassin of English musician John Lennon (1980)
- Leon Czolgosz - convicted assassin of the American president William McKinley (1901)
- André Dallaire - attempted assassin of Canadian Prime Minister Jean Chrétien (1995)
- Francisco Martin Duran - attempted assass of President Bill Clinton (1994)
- Georg Elser - lone assassin who attempted to assassinate Adolf Hitler
- Lynette 'Squeaky' Fromme - would-be assassin of Gerald Ford
- Rolando Galman - supposed assassin of Benigno Aquino, Jr.
- Nathuram Godse - assassin of Mahatma Gandhi
- Charles J. Guiteau - convicted assassin of the American president James Garfield
- Thenmozhi Rajaratnam- assassin of Rajiv Gandhi (1991)
- Charles Harrelson - convicted assassin of Judge John H. Wood, Jr.
- Talmadge Hayer (confessed and convicted), Norman 3X Butler and Thomas 15X Johnson (convicted) - the three assassins of Malcolm X
- John Hinckley, Jr. - would-be assassin of American president Ronald Reagan Khalid Islambouli - chief assassin of Anwar Al Sadat.
- Adolf Hitler – assassin of Adolf Hitler
- Khalid Sheik Mohammed - conspired with a plot to kill Pope John Paul II
- Richard Lawrence - would-be assassin of President Andrew Jackson
- Thomas McMahon - assassin of Louis Mountbatten
- Sara Jane Moore - would-be assassin of American president Gerald Ford
- Abu Nidal, attempted assassin of Shlomo Argov, Israeli ambassador to Britain. Actual assassin of dozens of PLO officers (1982)
- El Sayyid Nosair - assassin of Rabbi Meir Kahane
- Lee Harvey Oswald - assassin of President John F. Kennedy.
- Richard Paul Pavlick - attempted assassin of John F. Kennedy
- Christer Pettersson – assassin of Prime Minister of Sweden Olof Palme
- Gavrilo Princip - the Serbian nationalist who killed Franz Ferdinand, Archduke of Austria, and hence triggered World War I
- Thenmuli Rajaratnam - assassin of the Prime Minister of India Rajiv Gandhi
- James Earl Ray - convicted assassin of Martin Luther King Jr (pled guilty but later asserted his innocence)
- Jack Ruby - convicted assassin of Lee Harvey Oswald
- John Schrank - would-be assassin of Theodore Roosevelt
- Beant Singh and Satwant Singh - assassins Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi
- Sirhan Sirhan - assassin of Robert F. Kennedy
- Valerie Solanas - failed assassin of Andy WarholCarl Weiss - accused assassin of United States Senator from Louisiana and Former Governor Huey P. Long
- Claus von Stauffenberg - colonel of the Wehrmacht who led the abortive July 20, 1944 attempt to assassinate Hitler through a bomb at
- Henning von Tresckow - key conspirator in the German anti-Nazi Resistance who initiated several assassination attempts on Hitler (all unsuccessful)
- Dan White - convicted assassin of Mayor of San Francisco George Moscone and Councilman Harvey Milk (1978)
- Giuseppe Zangara - assassin of Anton Cermak, mayor of Chicago, Illinois, and would-be assassin of American president Franklin Delano Roosevelt [size=]