Next President to be Assassinated?

[emcee0]

I'm sure that this is a question none of us want to think of, but when will the next assassination of a US President occur, who is the President, and who would be the perpetrators?

My guess would be any President that tries to stand up against the Big Banks and the FED? I think we have a lady in Massachusetts who would be assassinated the next day if she were elected President with those same views.

[Snowstalker Mk. II]

There's absolutely no way to know this.

[Consciously Unconscious]

There's absolutely no way to know this.

[PJ]

Not to be negative, but I'm surprised Obama's still here. If Clinton or Warren is elected next, it could send the maniacs over the edge.

[Gass3268]

Let's not talk about this

[Stand With Israel. Crush Hamas]

There's really no way to know. All the Presidents who were assassinated (or came very close) had very different profiles.

Lincoln - Assassinated by an enemy sympathizer at the conclusion of the bloodiest war in US history at that point.

Garfield - Murdered over what essentially amounts to a workplace dispute by a disgruntled nobody.

McKinley - Assassinated by an anarchist during a time of massive political upheaval and social change.

Kennedy - Assassinated seemingly by a Communist nobody, but with odd links to the mafia in various ways shortly after overseeing the biggest crackdown on the mob in US history.

Reagan - Shot by a mentally ill pervert who wanted to be famous.

Out of these, only Lincoln was a particularly controversial President and was killed because of it. Maybe Kennedy, if you consider that he was nearly assassinated before he took office as well. the other three were more in the wrong place at the wrong time. Any average President could be assassinated, and any controversial President could make it through his term without even an attempt, a la Bush and Obama (so far and God willing).

[PJ]

If you're adding attempted assasinations, why is Roosevelt not on the list?

There's really no way to know. All the Presidents who were assassinated (or came very close) had very different profiles.

Lincoln - Assassinated by an enemy sympathizer at the conclusion of the bloodiest war in US history at that point.

Garfield - Murdered over what essentially amounts to a workplace dispute by a disgruntled nobody.

McKinley - Assassinated by an anarchist during a time of massive political upheaval and social change.

Kennedy - Assassinated seemingly by a Communist nobody, but with odd links to the mafia in various ways shortly after overseeing the biggest crackdown on the mob in US history.

Reagan - Shot by a mentally ill pervert who wanted to be famous.

Out of these, only Lincoln was a particularly controversial President and was killed because of it. Maybe Kennedy, if you consider that he was nearly assassinated before he took office as well. the other three were more in the wrong place at the wrong time. Any average President could be assassinated, and any controversial President could make it through his term without even an attempt, a la Bush and Obama (so far and God willing).

[Stand With Israel. Crush Hamas]

Theodore? Wasn't he shot while running for his third term, not while President?

I included Reagan because 20 years earlier, that would likely have been a fatal assassination. It was easily the most serious survived assassination.

If you're adding attempted assasinations, why is Roosevelt not on the list?

There's really no way to know. All the Presidents who were assassinated (or came very close) had very different profiles.

Lincoln - Assassinated by an enemy sympathizer at the conclusion of the bloodiest war in US history at that point.

Garfield - Murdered over what essentially amounts to a workplace dispute by a disgruntled nobody.

McKinley - Assassinated by an anarchist during a time of massive political upheaval and social change.

Kennedy - Assassinated seemingly by a Communist nobody, but with odd links to the mafia in various ways shortly after overseeing the biggest crackdown on the mob in US history.

Reagan - Shot by a mentally ill pervert who wanted to be famous.

Out of these, only Lincoln was a particularly controversial President and was killed because of it. Maybe Kennedy, if you consider that he was nearly assassinated before he took office as well. the other three were more in the wrong place at the wrong time. Any average President could be assassinated, and any controversial President could make it through his term without even an attempt, a la Bush and Obama (so far and God willing).

[PJ]

Yeah. But it was an assasination attempt.

Theodore? Wasn't he shot while running for his third term, not while President?

I included Reagan because 20 years earlier, that would likely have been a fatal assassination. It was easily the most serious survived assassination.

If you're adding attempted assasinations, why is Roosevelt not on the list?

There's really no way to know. All the Presidents who were assassinated (or came very close) had very different profiles.

Lincoln - Assassinated by an enemy sympathizer at the conclusion of the bloodiest war in US history at that point.

Garfield - Murdered over what essentially amounts to a workplace dispute by a disgruntled nobody.

McKinley - Assassinated by an anarchist during a time of massive political upheaval and social change.

Kennedy - Assassinated seemingly by a Communist nobody, but with odd links to the mafia in various ways shortly after overseeing the biggest crackdown on the mob in US history.

Reagan - Shot by a mentally ill pervert who wanted to be famous.

Out of these, only Lincoln was a particularly controversial President and was killed because of it. Maybe Kennedy, if you consider that he was nearly assassinated before he took office as well. the other three were more in the wrong place at the wrong time. Any average President could be assassinated, and any controversial President could make it through his term without even an attempt, a la Bush and Obama (so far and God willing).

[HagridOfTheDeep]

Yeah, I'm slightly surprised Obama is still here, to be honest. I know that sounds bad, but it is what it is. His 2008 victory speech was the scariest thing ever. Seeing him and his family out in the open like that? I can't have been the only one who was thinking something might happen.

[Person Man]

The Secret Service, despite what has happened to it a couple of years ago, seems to be sophisticated enough to stop non-state assassins and any enemy regime knows that it will not last but for a few weeks longer if they try to do a decapitation strike on the US. I do not think that I will ever live to see a President assassinated.

[PolitiJunkie]

Kennedy - Assassinated by a bitter Vice President with major presidential ambitions and a huge ego.

Fixed it for you...

[Enderman]

I think that probably the next one would roll around 2027-2033...

Why do I say that? On November 22nd it will be exactly fifty years since any assassin has achieved his goal, so I think that we are probably due for one at the end of the 2020's if not the early 2030's....but like Gass said, we should not really talk about it that much...Its depressing especially after Boston and Moore.....

[old timey villain]

I remember watching the inaugural parade in DC back in 2009 on TV. My friend and I went to the inauguration at the mall but went back to the apartment where we were staying after because we were so cold and tired. The apartment belonged to a friend of my friend, a tiny colombian woman named Veronica. As we were watching the parade she kept saying, "ay dios mio, be careful! He's gonna get shot!" I think a lot of people were secretly thinking that. It really is a miracle that there hasn't been any real attempt on his life. I guess we can chalk it up to a very prepared security detail. Assassinations are horrible and I hope no future president ever has to go through it.

[Indy Texas 🇺🇦🇵🇸]

I recall there being talk of a foiled assassination attempt a few months into his first term, but I think the suspects were a couple of hillbillies who weren't exactly the sort who could mastermind anything.

The fact is that we live in a safer, less violent time, even though perceptions and the media seem to fly in the face of that fact. And not only have we not had a president assassinated in nearly 50 years, assassinations of public figures in general haven't really happened as often as they did in the 20th century. The only assassination* of a head of state I can think of recently is Benazir Bhutto in Pakistan a few years ago. And Pakistan is basically the second most failed state after Afghanistan at the moment. EDIT: Bhutto was not in office when she was killed but was a candidate for office.

* I wouldn't consider the death of Muammar Qaddafi an assassination since it happened when he was a belligerent in a civil war.

[Mr. Morden]

Hypothetical pundit in 1951: "It's been 50 years since a president was assassinated in office.  Obviously, the Secret Service must now be sophisticated enough to thwart any future assassination attempts."

[Warren 4 Secretary of Everything]

Kennedy - Assassinated by a bitter Vice President with major presidential ambitions and a huge ego.

Fixed it for you...

Get out. Now.

[Negusa Nagast 🚀]

Hopefully never.

[Wake Me Up When The Hard Border Ends]

Hopefully never.

[Fmr President & Senator Polnut]

It's a risk of the office, but a horrible and unknowable thing to speculate on...

And it was Franklin Roosevelt who was shot at as President-elect...

[7,052,770]

It will probably be something petty and random, and have nothing to do with said president's national popularity or any relevant political debate of the day.

[Person Man]

It will probably be something petty and random, and have nothing to do with said president's national popularity or any relevant political debate of the day.

Either this or a once in a lifetime 9/11-like event when the President is overseas.

[Amenhotep Bakari-Sellers]

Kennedy bros were shot due in part of lack of surveillance by fbi.  In part, I agree a terrorist attack is gonna due the next prez in Bennizir Buto style.