[ SECRET POST #6022 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #6022 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

The sad part is that it takes no real skill to kill someone. All you need is a weapon and to be in the right place at the right time. Seriously, there have been people killed by two-year-olds, and it's not because the two-year-old is a genius master assassin. Often in that scenario, the reason is much more prosaic: the parent had a gun they didn't do a good enough job of securing. Hijinks ensue.

But that's not really that satisfying from a dramatic standpoint.

In fact, while I agree with the Warren Commission (Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone), I understand why conspiracy theories about the Kennedy Assassination persists. It seems inconceivable that the handsome well-educated scion of a wealthy family and the currently most powerful man in the world, gets taken out by a snot-nosed loser C-Student wasteoid who thought he was so much more than what he was. But when it comes to presidential assassinations, Lee Harvey Oswald is the rule, not the exception.

With the possible exception of John Wilkes Booth, who had achieved national renown as an actor at the time he assassinated Lincoln, all our presidential assassins were losers, complete and total losers who failed at everything in life except for assassinating the president, unfortunately.

They were probably helped along by the fact that it took until McKinley before people were like, "Uh, how 'bout we have some kind of security to protect the president, so that ever wingnut with a gun doesn't have a reasonable shot at taking out the president?" There's a reason there's only been one successful assassination since the Secret Service started protecting the president.

I could go through and list the various assassins, and their loser-dom, but this comment is hella long as is. Suffice to say, I do feel that Booth does qualify as a loser, because apparently, he acted really put-upon by everyone calling his attack on Lincoln cowardly, which you can understand. All he did was shoot an unarmed man in the back of the head, while he was busy watching some silly comedy. I don't know why anyone could call that cowardly.

[(Anonymous)]

I'm pretty sure the skill of being an assassin isn't the actual murder - it's the planning and execution of the murder in such a way that they get away with it.

I also think we have some definitional confusion here. You have listed assassins in the sense that they tried or succeeded in murdering a public figure for a cause. But that is a different category of assassins from career assassins working for a secret service or for organised crime, which is the more common portrayal in comic books.