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    family, attempted to assassinate the President Ronald Reagan in 1982, with a crazy motive and a shocking outcome because of his obsession. Born in Ardmore, Oklahoma, on May 29, 1955, John Warnock Hinckley Jr. became infamous for his attempted assassination of President Ronald Reagan (John) in 1981. His family was nearly perfect with his parents,…

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    On November 1963, while riding in a motorcade in Dallas, he was assassinated by a sniper, allegedly Lee Harvey Oswald (Britannica Concise Encyclopedia). The assassination happened November 22,1963, hardly passing his thousandth day in office. This wasn’t a huge shocker because at the time not many people were for the civil rights. JFK was getting things done and trying to change the lives of the future which many…

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    Washington and including John F. Kennedy’s assassination , The Illuminati is one of the most talked about societes known around the globe, but what is said about the Illuminati? An article…

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    The 15th of March 44 BCE, also known as the Ides of March marks an important moment and turning point in history as the day of Julius Caesar’s assassination and the fall of the Roman Republic. At Caesar’s assassination, the 500-year-old republic was severely destabilised in a series of civil wars, executions and political conflict. Caesar was reportedly stabbed 23 times by approximately 60 members of the Republic Senate, who had feared his growing power and recent title of dictator. By the act…

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    Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar, the ‘foolish’ reveler of the Second Triumvirate, Marc Antony, embodies the aspects of a criminal, a heroic figure seeking justice, and political opportunist acclimating himself to take power given the circumstances of Caesar’s assassination.…

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    One of the biggest advocates of protecting the second amendment is the National Rifle Association. The Encyclopedia of Interest Groups and Lobbyist in the United States reports that the NRA consists of over 3 million members nationwide (pg. 532) The NRA was founded in 1871 with the purpose of training the National Guard to be sharpshooters as well teaching its other members how to shoot (pg. 532). The first president of the organization was one of the Civil War Generals of the Union, Ambrose…

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    Sadly this has not always been the case and probably never will be. This can happen due to different views and opinions on how things should be done. In Bill O’Reilly’s Killing Lincoln: The Shocking Assassination That Changed America forever, it explains the approach to Abraham Lincoln’s assassination and the days leading up to it. In this book, it walks through his final days and what was potentially on his mind amongst the minds of other people who were plotting against him. The plotting and…

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    Abraham Lincoln. One could argue that something like this is predestined in a person, or that nature comes before nurture. However, the way Booth was raised clearly had a big part in leading up to his attempted kidnapping and following that, his assassination of America’s sixteenth president. His views radically contradicted those of Lincoln, and when, where, and how he was brought up during his childhood are to blame for these extreme viewpoints. John Wilkes Booth was born one of ten…

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    things violent and was guided by his Islamic beliefs. Osama Bin Laden’s assassination was the result of years of terrorization, oppression, and persecution that aggregated to overall justification of his death, however america has been criticized for the violation of civil rights and the vulgar celebration and assassination of a considered “figure head” in the muslim community. A team of 25 SEALs were responsible for the assassination. They were said to have raided his compound in Abbottabad,…

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    The right to bear arms dates back to the Revolutionary War when militias formed by citizens needed firearms to fight off the British crown. After Independence was won, it was decided by the Constitutional Convention that the citizens were permitted to keep their weapons so that the Federal Government could not become as powerful as the English Monarchy. In the Constitution it is stated, “A well-regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep…

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