Loki wrote:
Today, in 1981, President Ronald Reagan was the target of an assassination attempt by John Hinckley. You anti-gun types might note that Reagan refused to consider an avalanche of gun control bills proposed in the aftermath.
In other news, on this day in 1867, US Secretary of State William Seward signed the agreement with Czarist Russia that ceded Alaska to the US, and on this day in 1870, the 15th Amendment, giving blacks the right to vote, was ratified.
I was in the Navy, at the time, and no, not in 1867, I'm talking about 1981. It should be noted that the Brady Act arose from the incident. And as you and I know the NRA would be vehemently opposed to that law today. And, of course, they opposed the law back then, as well. Initially blocking the law, in 1987, but the law managed to pass in 1993. But that didn't deter the NRA from filing multiple law suits, in various states, questioning the Constitutionality of the law. Here is the outcome of that Supreme Court case...