Not so sure. That one still has me puzzled.
Pretty sure that the Soviets were involved in that one.
If the shooter was a Loon he was put up to it by the Soviets through an intermediary.
That never occurred to me...that does seem like a plausible explanation.The Soviets didn't like him one little bit.
Historian and author Paul Kengor covered the assassination attempts on both President Reagan and Pope John Paul II in his book “A Pope and a President: John Paul II, Ronald Reagan, and the Extraordinary Untold Story of the 20th Century.”
Pope John Paul II was shot and seriously wounded May 13, 1981 at Saint Peter’s square by Turkish extremist Mehmet Ali Agca. Agca was recruited by the Bulgarian version of the KGB to execute the Soviet KGB’s plan to kill the pope.
See also this interview with Dr. Paul Kengor: http://www.catholicworldreport.com/2017/05/07/the-untold-story-of-john-paul-ii-and-ronald-reagan-mary-is-central/