It doesn't seem likely that a person planning on killing the president would be so cavalier about their intentions. When people know what you are up to, it tends to throw a monkey wrench into the works. At any rate, the guy is an idiot for joking about that sort of thing in public. When you say you want to kill the president, people tend to take that seriously.
Oswald was a garden variety crackpot. Hinckley was a garden variety crackpot. It is the quiet ones you have to watch out for. The ones that do it loudly get arrested.
It doesn't seem likely that a person planning on killing the president would be so cavalier about their intentions. When people know what you are up to, it tends to throw a monkey wrench into the works. At any rate, the guy is an idiot for joking about that sort of thing in public. When you say you want to kill the president, people tend to take that seriously.
Oswald was a garden variety crackpot. Hinckley was a garden variety crackpot. It is the quiet ones you have to watch out for. The ones that do it loudly get arrested.