Dude has like 45k subs on YouTube. Fucking weird.
You know, I ain’t mad.
Dude was crazy. Did something horrible (regardless of the horrible person he directly targeted, and he did harm two other people). Was in supervision and treatment for decades.
Why the fuck should anyone care if he’s trying to do something with what’s left of his life? If he had gone to jail, I’d say he served his time, and that’s the end of it.
He Was in supervised release at first, and hasn’t caused any trouble since.
Fuck it, let the man have a life. If we can’t give someone the chance to have changed after over thirty years, we’re all fucked. I’m not the same man I was at 25. I’m not the same man I was at 40. Mind you, I didn’t try to kill a president, but I was deep enough in the PTSD cycle that I’m kind of amazed I didn’t try something that insane. Gods know that I did my own dance with self destructive shit, and that included chasing more trauma sometimes.
Give people a chance to be better.
I’ve been following him on Twitter for awhile.
He sells bad paintings of orange cats that I desperately want to buy.
He keeps booking musical shows and then having to cancel them once the venue discovers who he is.
After Trump was shot at he made a statement condemning political violence
That last one is crazy
Nah dude, kinda sounds like prison actually worked as rehabilitation for this guy.
He didn’t go to prison though, he went to a mental hospital for 30 years.
TIL it’s possible to attempt murder on a sitting president’s life, and later live freely.
Good. We imagine how our society would have less issues if we focused more on real rehabilitation and reintegration, and less on retribution and *heaping on more trauma.
For most crimes I agree.
For murderers, pedophiles, rapists, drunk drivers, snd repeat assaulters I think it should be more about “we’re not reintegrating you back into society…at all. We’re just going to put you into a room and make it so you’re not a threat to society anymore”
And considering his was against the president, I’m surprised secret service didn’t shoot him dead on the spot.
It’s technically possible to do that after committing any crime, but under super specific circumstances and it’s a far cry from a “get out of jail free” card.
If you’re legitimately, actually insane when you commit a crime you’ll get sent to a mental hospital instead of prison. The catch is that the hospital will only release you if you’re mentally healthy. That can mean that a person who uses the insanity plea may spend more time in the hospital than they would have in prison.
His charges were reduced because his lawyers were able to make the case that he was schizophrenic.
Pleading insanity became much harder in the US after that Hinckley’s case. The ruling was hotly debated.
He tried to kill the active President, not for political reasons, but to impress an actress who didn’t know he existed.
Mans bat shit. Why on earth would the diagnosis of crazy be challenged?
No just a bad shot.
“You rape one child and you get booed at the olympics!”
– some hypothetical case, hopefully /sHe’s have more fans if he’d had better aim.
John did his time and just wants to make art and music. He lives close by to me and keeps getting booked and then cancelled at local venues. It’s lame.
Are we gonna gloss over the fact that he blamed Cancel Culture.
I don’t think this guy knows what Cancel Culture is.
Yeah if think about it he almost saved America, but like another person who I won’t name the fucker Regan lived. Wonder what world be like if he had been successful?
he almost saved America
It would have been entirely accidentally, though.
He didn’t shoot Reagan for being Reagan, he shot him because he wanted to impress Jodie Foster after developing an obsession with her (who’d been twelve when filming and was eighteen at the time of the attempt on Reagan’s life) after watching Taxi Driver about fifteen times.
