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Man freed after shooting Reagan drops plans to open music store in Virginia
nbcwashington ^ | 12/05/2024 | Maggie More

Posted on 12/06/2024 8:41:26 AM PST by ChicagoConservative27

Days after announcing on social media that he planned to open a music store in Williamsburg, Virginia, John Hinckley Jr. told News4 that his plan had changed.

Hinckley — who shot President Ronald Reagan in a 1981 assassination attempt outside the Washington Hilton — spent nearly 30 years in psychiatric care before his release. He has lived in the Williamsburg area since then.

Hinckley announced his business plans on social media Monday, writing on X, "I’ll be opening a music store in Williamsburg, Va. The address is 455 Merrimack [sic] Trail. Grand opening is in a week or two!"

The post garnered dozens of responses, mostly supportive of the business and Hinckley's attempt at a fresh start.

Hinckley did not share any further details on the store, an exact opening date or a suite number within the shopping center at that location. When News4 reached out to him via email for comment and more information, he said he had dropped his plan

(Excerpt) Read more at nbcwashington.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: drops; music; plans; reagan; shooting; store; virginia
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He needs to be locked up.
1 posted on 12/06/2024 8:41:26 AM PST by ChicagoConservative27
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Will Jodie Foster stop by?


2 posted on 12/06/2024 8:42:24 AM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Find a tall tree
and 'decorate' it...



3 posted on 12/06/2024 8:43:58 AM PST by Carriage Hill (A society grows great when old men plant trees, in whose shade they know they will never sit.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

He should be allowed to stock only Yoko Ino recordings.


4 posted on 12/06/2024 8:44:15 AM PST by txeagle
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To: ChicagoConservative27

He should be dropped from a plane into the Amazon rain forest naked and no tools.

If he can get back to the States alive, he can have his store.


5 posted on 12/06/2024 8:44:46 AM PST by Thorium90
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To: txeagle

...that would be Ono if my thumbs weren’t so fat.....


6 posted on 12/06/2024 8:45:16 AM PST by txeagle
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Is “Don’t fear the Reaper” playing inside the store?


7 posted on 12/06/2024 8:45:57 AM PST by Zathras
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To: Zathras

8 posted on 12/06/2024 8:47:18 AM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

The only music he should be hearing is Berlioz March to the Scaffold.


9 posted on 12/06/2024 8:48:10 AM PST by AbolishCSEU (Amount of "child" support paid is inversely proportionate to mother's actual parenting of children)
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I guess he just learned that music stores went out of business and it’s all downloads.


10 posted on 12/06/2024 8:48:27 AM PST by Jonty30 (Genghis Khan did not have the most descendants. His father had more. )
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To: Jonty30

I miss Peaches.


11 posted on 12/06/2024 8:49:03 AM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

the Hinckley family were friends with the Bush family ...


12 posted on 12/06/2024 8:52:05 AM PST by bankwalker (Repeal the 19th ...)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Whenever leftists try to convince you that the death penalty should be abolished in favor of life in prison, think of Hinkley.


13 posted on 12/06/2024 8:52:06 AM PST by fwdude (Why is there a "far/radical right," but damned if they'll admit that there is a far/radical left?)
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He’s been in prison for years and now he has enough money to open a store?!


14 posted on 12/06/2024 8:52:19 AM PST by Beowulf9
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To: ChicagoConservative27
The post garnered dozens of responses, mostly supportive of the business and Hinckley's attempt at a fresh start... "The Music Store is not happening," Hinckley told News4. "Too much negative publicity!"

Looks like 4 Washington is a bit schizo. The dude has had 40 years to lay out his plans and consider negative publicity.

Just like JFK, do you remember where you were when this happened? I was at the Senior Center.

15 posted on 12/06/2024 8:59:27 AM PST by bgill
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To: Jonty30

He’s working on his 1981 bucket list.


16 posted on 12/06/2024 9:00:49 AM PST by George from New England (escaped CT back in 2006ttsee)
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To: ChicagoConservative27
He plans on selling albums from Jodie Foster's pop career?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cHM6sYGEy-U



17 posted on 12/06/2024 9:01:28 AM PST by T.B. Yoits
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He’s been in prison for years and now he has enough money to open a store?!

His parents were well to do, so I suspect there was a sizable inheritance involved. The dad passed away over a decade ago and the mom just passed away a few years ago. Hinkley is about 70 now..

18 posted on 12/06/2024 9:07:13 AM PST by EVO X ( )
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> He’s been in prison for years and now he has enough money to open a store?! <

I wouldn’t be surprised if he got a federal small-business loan. That’s just how crazy our government is.


19 posted on 12/06/2024 9:08:01 AM PST by Leaning Right (It’s morning in America. Again.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

So, the word “dropped” used in this article means he said to hell with the idea instead of using “dropped” to say he released the news to the “media and “public.” I’ll never get used to this SNOWFLAKE gibberish.


20 posted on 12/06/2024 9:10:26 AM PST by FlingWingFlyer (America-hating Democrat "core values" really suck. All Marxist fascists have the same ones.)
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