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Robert Tait

Man who tried to assassinate Reagan says ‘violence is not the way to go’

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John Hinckley Jr, who attempted to kill Reagan in 1981, pictured in Virginia in 2022. Photograph: Ryan M Kelly/AFP/Getty Images

John Hinckley Jr, who attempted to assassinate Ronald Reagan in 1981, has waded into the discourse around the recent attempted assassination of Donald Trump in a social media post seemingly disavowing his own past actions.

“Violence is not the way to go. Give peace a chance,” Hinckley wrote on X on Wednesday, sentiments that drew a welter of bemused and often ironic responses.

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