Reply #115: Bingo - now you're getting warm...

[Tin Man]

The only pattern I can see in presidential assassins is what you just mentioned - i.e. "the lone nut" link.

John Hinkley shot Reagan in order to 'impress' actress Jody Foster.

Lynette "Squeaky" Fromme was a follower of Charles Manson prior to shooting at Gerald Ford.

Arthur Herman Bremer shot George Wallace, as he wrote in his diary, "to do SOMETHING BOLD AND DRAMATIC, FORCEFULL & DYNAMIC, A STATEMENT of my manhood for the world to see."

Francisco Martin Duran claimed to be saving the world from aliens after shooting 29 rounds from his AK-47 into the Clinton Whitehouse during 1994.

Also in 1994, Frank Eugene Corder expressed to friends his desire to kill himself "in a big way" prior to flying a Cessna 150 into the White House.

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From what I see, the only pattern that emerging from recent presidential assassinations and/or attempts is that the assassins mostly seem to suffer from some form of mental illness. Sorry, but I fail to see any 'vast right wing conspiracy' in action here...