[There have been assassination attempts on 15 out of 43 presidents (35%), with 4 sucesses. Being a president is dangerous enough to deserve more protection than the average person.]
That has absolutely no effect on the percent chance of one of America's nearly 300 million people today attempting to assassinate the president.
I overestimated the source of those statistics; they are not even educated guesses, but completely irrelevant historical facts.
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If I read this correctly, which can be hard at times, then he is absolutely right.
I overestimated the source of those statistics; they are not even educated guesses, but completely irrelevant historical facts.
But the stupid manages to enter the post. How can they be less than educated guesses when they are know to be facts?
I just don't get this guy: of course the chances for a random average individual to murder an US president are abysmally low, most normal never meet a president, and even those who do and hate said president in majority aren't killers... But just because most people wouldn't kill a president doesn't mean that there aren't ready and competent assassins out there. I'm pretty sure there are lots of people who would love nothing more than to whack Dubya if given half a chance (or even less hated US presidents like Clinton).
er, that's supposed to be "Fidei Defensor" (Defender of the Faith - one of the titles of the British monarch). Defensor Fidei and Fidei Defensor both mean "Defender of the Faith."
Latin uses inflected case-endings on individual words, rather than word order, to convey meaning. (For example, Brutus Portiam amat means "Brutus loves Portia", but Brutum Portia amat means "Portia loves Brutus".)
There is zero correlation between the the number of U.S. presidents assassinated throughout history and the chance of George Bush being assassinated today. They are independent variables. As I said those historical facts are completely irrelevant. Might as well have said "3 out of 43 presidents were named George, therefore George W. Bush deserves more protection than the average person."
<<< That has absolutely no effect on the percent chance of one of America's nearly 300 million people today attempting to assassinate the president. >>>
"ooh. and i was beaten to the latin already!"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fidei_defensor
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So were we! You can find all of this, and more, on Fundies Say the Darndest Things!
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