• Bestsync 2015 Serial Shooters

In 1865 a Democrat shot and killed Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States.In 1881 a left wing radical Democrat shot James Garfield, President of the United States – who later died from the wound.In 1963 a radical left wing socialist shot and killed John F. Clearly, there is a problem with Democrats and guns.Not one.NRA member, Tea Party member, or Republican conservative was involved in any of these shootings and murders.SOLUTION:.It should be illegal for Democrats to own guns.Best idea I’ve heard to date!This list has evolved since it first started circulating in the wake of the Sandy Hook shooting in 2012. Another early of this list ended — as Nugent’s did — with a “solution” to the gun problem in the United States:SOLUTION: It should simply be illegal for Democrats to own guns.Although the message of this meme hasn’t changed, this list has grown from five items in 2012, to 19 as of June 2017.

Here is how it appeared on the Facebook page:Setting aside for a moment the accuracy (or lack thereof) of the items on the list, we find a logical flaw in using this meme to reach the conclusion that Democrats shouldn’t own guns — or that National Rifle Association members, tea party members, or Republicans are less likely to be involved in assassination attempts or mass shootings.This list is not comprehensive. It does not include all of the shootings that have occurred in the United States, nor the political affiliations of every shooter.

It ignores shootings committed by Republicans, as well as those with no political party affiliation, and makes no attempt to show how political affiliation leads to violence. In other words, one could make a similar list naming nothing but Republican or politically unaffiliated shooters in order to make the opposing (and still flawed) argument that those groups should not own guns.In addition to the logical problems of this meme, much of the information is also inaccurate.We searched contemporary reports for each of the listed incidents in an attempt to uncover any mentions of political affiliations, motivations, or voting records. Many of these items can be traced back to poor reporting, articles that were later corrected, or fake news items. Ffa installation of new officers ceremony.

And although we encountered this meme (or a similar list) on a variety of web sites, none of these publications provided any documentation to back up these claims. Verifying this information through online state voting registrations proved problematic as individuals are removed from these databases.

We reached out to state historical societies for additional documentation, but several of the states we contacted told us that voter registration records weren’t archived. Even if they were, however, one’s official party registration can often contradict one’s political beliefs.Given the difficulty of finding the political affiliation of many of the individuals on this list, we are highly skeptical that this list is based on credible information.Here’s a look at what we found:In 1865, a Democrat shot and killed Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States.MOSTLY FALSEShooter: John Wilkes BoothJohn Wilkes Booth was a member of the Party. However, some of his motivations for assassinating Lincoln (Booth was opposed to freeing the slaves) aligned with the Democratic Party at the time:Those ideological differences include increasing the power of the federal government and emancipating the slaves, both things Booth was vehemently against. He was angered that the government instituted an income tax and the military draft, and that the government occasionally suspended habeas corpus, a legal protection against unlawful imprisonment. All these things, Alford says, agitated Booth.“But Booth brought to that agitation an extremism, the passion almost of a fanatic,” Alford says. “And it was very dangerous, as we find out.”. Although Booth’s motivations may have aligned with the Democratic party of 1865, they bear little resemblance to the party’s modern, which have changed dramatically over the past 152 years.In 1881, a left wing radical Democrat shot James Garfield, President of the United States – who later died from the wound.FALSEShooter: Charles J.

GuiteauGuiteau gave what The Atlantic calls an “incoherent speech to a small group of black voters in New York City” in support of presidential candidate James Garfield. Guiteau then claimed that the speech — which he had originally written in support of Ulysses S. Grant — was the reason for Garfield’s election victory. The new administration, from Guiteau’s perspective, owed him an ambassadorship. When he was denied his request, Guiteau set out for:After the election, Guiteau moved to Washington to collect his imagined prize.

These were the days when any ordinary citizen could pay visits to officials. Guiteau roamed the halls of the State Department and White House, imploring anyone who would listen that he deserved a diplomatic post.He didn’t get the diplomatic job.

On one visit to the State Department, Secretary of State James Blaine barked at Guiteau, “Never bother me again about the Paris consulship as long as you live.”The words stung, and set Guiteau off on a bizarre chain of logic, which would result in his demise. Blaine was a menace to the Republican Party. To get rid of Blaine, he reasoned, he had to kill the president. After all, it was Garfield’s fault that such a man served in the State Department. Guiteau heard these instructions from God himself. It wouldn’t be an assassination, but a divinely ordained “removal.” The plan was essentially motiveless, as the the death of the president wouldn’t stand to benefit Guiteau or any Republican. “In the president’s madness, he has wrecked the once Grand Old Republican Party; and for this, he dies,” Guiteau wrote in a letter of admission.Guiteau was not a “left wing radical Democrat” — he was a supporter of the Republican Party.In 1963, a radical left wing socialist shot and killed John F.

Kennedy, President of the United States. MOSTLY TRUEShooter: Lee Harvey OswaldOswald was a and supported Fidel Castro and Cuba.In 1959, Oswald travelled to Moscow in hopes of becoming a Soviet citizen. “I want citizenship because I am a communist and a worker,”. “I have lived in a decadent capitalist society where the workers are slaves.”However, Oswald’s inclusion on this list is odd in that there is no claim that he is a Democrat.In 1975, a left wing radical Democrat fired shots at Gerald Ford, President of the United States.UNPROVENShooters: Lynette Fromme and Sara Jane Moore.

Two women in one month attempted to shoot Gerald Ford in 1975: Lynette “Squeaky” Fromme, a member of the Manson family, and Sara Jane Moore, a member of radical leftist circles in California and an FBI. Both women appear to have had mental health issues.

For her part, Fromme appears to have been trying to impress Charles Manson. Moore may have been caught between her loyalty to the FBI and to the leftist groups she was a part of, according to Atlas Oscura:One interpretation of Moore’s assassination attempt is that she had made a choice between the two sides—she had decided to throw her lot in with the leftists and wanted to demonstrate her allegiance.

In the days before she shot at Ford, Moore called up the San Francisco Police Department and told the officers there she was considering a “test” of the president’s security system. They took away her gun; she bought another one, and with that gun in her car, sped through downtown in the hopes, she later said, of being apprehended. While she stood waiting to fire her shot, she was thinking about whether she’d be on time to pick up her son.Moore fired a shot, which a deflected by grabbing her arm. Fromme was apprehended before she fired a. Although both women could rightly be described as radicals, we found no evidence to show that they were Democrats. It appears that Moore and Fromme earned their place on this list thanks to a March 2010 article published by the web site which compiled a list in an attempt to show that “LEFTIST ARE THE HATERS AND ASSASSINS.”In 1983, a registered Democrat shot and wounded Ronald Reagan, President of the United States.UNPROVENShooter: John Hinckley Jr.Another claim that seems to be supported only by speculation.

John Hinckley Jr.’s assassination attempt in 1981 (not 1983 as suggested by this meme) was motivated not by politics, but by his desire to woo actress. In fact, officials believe that before he shot Reagan, Hinckley stalked towards the end of his presidency.Regardless, we contacted the History Colorado (Hinckley’s last place of residence was in the state), who told us:We wouldn’t have voting records in our collection at all. Most Snopes assignments begin when readers ask us, “Is this true?” Those tips launch our fact-checkers on sprints across a vast range of political, scientific, legal, historical, and visual information. We investigate as thoroughly and quickly as possible and relay what we learn.

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“‘Navy Yard Shooter Aaron Alexis Driven by Delusions.”The Washington Post. 25 September 2013.Rothman, Noah. “‘He Was More of a Liberal Type’: CNN Guest Identifies Aaron Alexis as Having ‘Liked’ Obama Admin.”Mediate. 17 September 2013.Reuters. “Connecticut Gunman had Large Weapons Cache.”28 March 2013.Tampa Bay Times. “Frustrating Search for Newtown, Conn., Shooter Adam Lanza’s Motive.”24 December 2012.Walsh, Paul. “Gunman Lost His Job, Then Opened Fire, Killing 5.”Star Tribune.

29 September 2012.Silverman, Craig. “ABC News, Breitbart Fall Short in Owning Up to Mistakes on Colorado Theater Shooter.”Poynter. 20 July 2012.Condon, Stephanie. “Jared Lee Loughner a Registered Independent; Didn’t Vote in 2010.”CBS News.

11 January 2011.Fader, Carole. “Fact Check: Email Was Wrong About Recent Mass Killers Being Liberals.”The Florida Times-Union. 14 March 2013.USA Today. “Plant Gunman ‘Mad at the World’.”7 August 2003.Ross, Brian.

“Lockheed Workplace Murders Targeted Blacks.”ABC News. 12 May 2005.Sanger, David.

“Officer Shoots Armed Man Near White House Fence.”The New York Times. 8 February 2001.CBS News. “Who is Pickett.”7 February 2001.Arter, Melanie. “White House Shooter Sued the IRS.”CNS News. 7 July 2008.Biema, David.

“Terror in the Sanctuary.”Time. 20 September 1999.Kolker, Claudia. “Texas Gunman Tied to Hate Groups; Writings Show Persecution Feelings.”Los Angeles Times. 18 September 1999.The New York Times. “6 Die in Texas Office Shooting.”4 April 1995.Chin, Paula. “A Texas Massacre.”People.

Bestsync 2015 Serial Shooters

4 November 1991.Smothers, Ronald. “Hazy Records Helped Florida Gunman Buy Arms.”The New York Times. 20 June 1990.Associated Press. “Car Repossessed, He Kills 7: Gunman a Suicide After Rampage in Jacksonville”18 June 1990.Lamar, Jacob.

“Crazy Pat’s Revenge.”Time. 24 June 2001.Bovsun, Mara.

“Mailman Massacre: 14 Die After Patrick Sherrill ‘Goes Postal’ in 1986 Shootings.”New York Post. 15 August 2010.Houseman, Martin. “Mass Murderer James Huberty Tried to Get Help From”UPI. 2 August 1984.Brown, Ronald. Dying on the Job: Murder and Mayhem in the American Workplace.Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2012. Hinckley Jr.: Inside the Mind of Ronald Reagan’s Would-Be Assassin.”27 July 2016.Parker, Ryan. “Flashback: What John Hinckley Jr.

Wrote to Jodie Foster Before He Shot Ronald Reagan.”The Hollywood Reporter. 27 July 2016.Conradarens, John. “The Leftists Are the Haters and Assassins. Let’s Look at History, Shall We?”The Red State.

28 March 2010.Breslow, Jason. “8 Things You May Not Know About Lee Harvey Oswald.”PBS.

19 November 2013.Resnick, Brian. “This Is the Brain That Shot President James Garfield.”The Atlantic. 4 October 2015.Biography. “John Wilkes Booth.”Retrieved 16 June 2017.