No matter how you spin this, it was a bad day and could have been a lot worse. You might hate the man but going out like that would not have been a good day for the US. It would go down like Bobby Kennedy as a dark milestone in our shared history. Happy it was a near miss instead of the reason for a state funeral.
I don’t envy the Secret Service at all. Thousands of events and interactions that all have to be choreographed to protect politicians who by definition are not universally liked, in a country with more guns than people. Thankfully most people are not homicidal lunatics.
I wonder if<p>>A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed<p>could be reinterpreted with more emphasis on the well regulated bit. I mean it originates from the British bill of rights of 1689<p>>That the Subjects which are Protestants may have Arms for their Defence suitable to their Conditions and as allowed by Law<p>but in Britain we've mostly managed to regulate things a bit more.