The only reason he got shot is because Reagans people refused to listen to the secret service and allowed psychos like Hinkley to stand 15 feet away as they were exiting the hotel. That’s close enough where Hinkley could have used a flame thrower if he wanted. Guns had nothing to do with it. Hinkley also got within one foot of Carter when he was POTUS. What does it matter if he uses a gun? He could have used any other method and still caused massive damage. He could have set off a bomb, would the gun opponents have preferred that?
I remember the panic at the ABC news desk that day! When it was mentioned that the gun had been bought in Dallas, news anchor Frank Reynolds threw his hands in the air and yelled..”AGH! DALLAS!”
To a Dem lib, Dallas was still a cursed city because of Nov 22, 1963.
Well even now with the diseases we’re blindly letting into the country, he could just coughed or shook his hand to do the deed.
Just sayin..