Question: Who was the last DC pol who was a victim of an assassination attempt?

[valerief]

Ineeda and I think it was Reagan, but we're not sure. We're excluding controversial deaths like Wellstone and the media-censored anthrax attacks. Also, we're excluding the recent mail bombs.

Was the Reagan the last big DC pol shot at?

Thanks in advance.

[TheBigotBasher]

1. The modern day GOP were not too far

removed from the shooting of Reagan either. Look who dined with his Vice President shortly before the attempted murder.

[valerief]

4. Ah. I suspect most assassination attempts aren't random shootings by crazies anyway.

http://www.hereinreality.com/hinckley.html

The newspaper said in a copyright story, Scott Hinckley, brother of John W. Hinckley Jr., who allegedly shot Reagan, was to have dined tonight in Denver at the home of Neil Bush, one of the vice president's sons.

The newspaper said it was unable to reach Scott Hinckley, vice president of his father's Denver-based firm, Vanderbilt Energy Corp., for comment. Neil Bush lives in Denver, where he works for Standard Oil Co. of Indiana.

[Empowerer]

2. I think he was the last politician specifically targeted but

someone shot and killed two Capitol Police officers while trying to storm through security with a gun in 1998. One of the officers killed while trying to protect Tom Delay, who was the Majority Whip at the time.

[valerief]

3. Looked it up. Thanks! nt

[sofa king]

5. Prior to that, someone kamikazed a plane at the Clinton White House.

While another opened fire at the front of the building and was tackled.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Eugene_Corder

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HJu_UswXWtw

[valerief]

8. Ah, thanks!!!

[sofa king]

9. Remember, "nobody could have predicted" that planes could be used like that.

Eight years before 9/11.

[Doctor_J]

6. Daschle and Leahy

2002

[valerief]

7. Yes, but that was the media-censored anthrax attacks. Definitely assassination attempts.

Definitely assassination attempts that the media and government have "forgotten". We're still at war and that's what the attempts were all about.

Ineeda and I were specifically curious about shootings.

http://www.salon.com/news/opinion/glenn_greenwald/2009/03/04/anthrax/
Whatever one's views are on the abstract 9/11-anthrax comparison, there is no question that the anthrax attacks were a major political crime. According to the FBI, the anthrax letters were directed at U.S. Senators (Leahy and Daschle) due to their political views (specifically their opposition to the Patriot Act, their allegedly "soft on terrorism" approach, and their pro-choice views). And perhaps most importantly, the anthrax attacks -- again, according to the FBI itself -- came from a U.S. Army laboratory, perpetrated by a U.S. Government scientist.

[mikekohr]

10. Here is the latest attempt, proir to the Slaughter of theTucson Six

November 3, 2010—James Patock, 66, of Pima County, Arizona, is arrested on the National Mall in the District of Columbia after law enforcement authorities find a .223 caliber rifle, a .243 caliber rifle barrel, a .22 caliber rifle, a .357 caliber pistol, several boxes of ammunition, and propane tanks wired to four car batteries in his truck and trailer. Patock former neighbor in Arizona reported that, "He hated the president. He hated everything. He said if he got a chance he would shoot the president." Patock tells authorities he is a member of the National Rifle Association.

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http://www.csgv.org/issues-and-campaigns/guns-democracy-and-freedom/insurrection-timeline

over 116 incidents of this nature listed at this timeline.