Umm... in all fairness to history, she missed. So did Sara Jane Moore.
I was old enough to remember those attempts, two weeks apart.
sorry, I meant to say "shot at"........ thanks for the important correction.
Still, a would-be assassin, even a fruitcake, must be taken very seriously..... I doubt anyone would have looked at wimply John Hinckley, Jr. before his assassination attempt and evaluated him as much of a threat unless they could read his mind AND believed that he could in fact get that close to President Reagan with a gun..... it can't be easy to evaluate which angry and delusional leftists might turn out to be real threats and which are just the usual Al Franken or Alec Baldwin wannabes..........