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there have been 4 or 5 US presidents shot or shot and killed in the 240 years this nation has existed.
each and every one of them was a lone idiot/lunatic seeking to exact some sort of personal revenge.
noone ever wants to believe that the powerful and rich and famous and "superior" can die such simple, brutal deaths. anyone can accept that a clerk at wal mart was gunned down while driving home but noone can accept that a movie star, or a rapper, or a politician, was killed the same way. It is something of a human failing. great people cannot have simple stupid deaths. this is our collective thinking, when in fact, nearly each and every death, no matter what, is simple and stupid.
things that were once unthinkable become the standard by which we build our "security". it used to be unthinkable that soemone would kill a president while he was being entertained at a theatre. Joh Wilkes booth instantly put the unthinkable into concrte reality. after that no president was allowed to go out for entertainment without a full attatchment of security, secret service and pre-planning.
it was unthinkable that someone would try to snipe a president as he drove along on a motorcade greeting constituents, but lee harvey oswald did it, had a perfect vantage point, excellent marksman MARINE, and since the unthinkable was made real, no president has ever ridden in a vehicle that was not covered and bulletproof.
all it takes is one person acting crazy to change the way the rest o the world behaves.
all it took was 12-16 people to take three planes and change the direction of not only the USA, but of the entire fucking world.
when people say "One person can make a difference" it is very true, but they never say it can just as easily b a difference for the worse.
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