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probably not, i wish theyd do away with guns altogether, i hate guns
I don't know, but we should outlaw the theater and start with "Hamilton".
he would have been stabbed
Yes, the gun laws wouldn't have made any difference. If that guy was determined to kill Lincoln he would still have done it no matter what. He still committed murder, so what difference would it have made to him had the gun laws been any different? He would still have gone to jail (or maybe even been sentenced to death, depending on the State laws).
Gun laws have nothing to do with it. There was a law in effect at the time that made it a crime to kill the President and that didn't work either. If someone is intent on killing someone else without regard for their own safety they will be very difficult, if not outright impossible to stop.
A better question would be "Would President Lincoln have been assassinated had there been a credible Presidential Protection Detail on duty?" (No Secret Service at the time, the bill creating it was sitting on the President's desk, and it didn't include a Presidential Protection Detail; it's primary duty was to deal with criminal counterfeiting of the nation's currency.) There were numerous death threats against Lincoln since before his first election; Pinkerton detectives even thwarted one of the first attempts before Lincoln was first inaugurated. On top of that the nation was at war with itself making him an even bigger target so there was plenty of reason for concern.
On that fateful night there was only one bodyguard on duty, an allegedly unreliable Washington cop named John Frederick Parker. He watched the play from a different location than did the President and even went to the saloon next door during intermission when the President was shot.
Booth was allegedly killed when confronted by Federal troops at a barn in Virginia as part of the largest manhunt in history. But had he been captured he most certainly would have been the 5th person in the gallows line-up. Four of his co-conspirators were hanged for their part in the crime. No jail time considered due to the very heinous nature of the crime. (Even the doctor that set Booth's broken leg was sentenced to life in prison for having providing aide to the assassin although that sentence was later commuted.)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/four-people-were-hanged-for-li...
The crimes were Federal, not State, and the executions marked the first time in the nation's history that the Federal government executed a woman. Mary Surratt, who ran a boarding house where the other conspirators planned the event, something that she was "privy" to, was one of the four.
There's a lot of violence in theaters,
Do you remember Prohibition? Alcohol was banned, but that didn't stop people from having it! If someone wants to shoot someone .. they'll find a way to get a gun.
Why not make it harder to get guns?
That's absurd, especially for those days.
A LOT of people outside of the few urban areas in those days used firearms to put protein on the table and to protect themselves from nature (had a great grandfather that had to kill a cougar to save his livestock, in the eastern part of the USA). Back then you couldn't just run down to the local Safeway and grab a couple of pounds of hamburger for dinner.
They should have been vegetarians!! Let 'em eat potatoes!!
Give it up instead of looking stupid!!
Potatoes are not a source of protein.
On top of that, the Imperial British stole all of the potatoes from the Irish which is what caused the Potato Famine there and why my great grandfather came across the pond through Ellis Island to begin with.
