The President Has Been Shot: True Stories of the Attacks on Ten U.S. Presidents

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Summary: Assassination Facts and a Gun-control Agenda!
Review: Contrary to what you might infer from my rating, this book was pretty accurate and informative up to the Reagan assassination attempt-then the author started playing politics. In said attempt, a crazy guy (who already couldn't legally own a gun) in love with actress Jody Foster, empties a .22 caliber revolver at President Reagan, wounding him and nearly killing his Press Secretary, James Brady. At this point the author goes off on a tangent in which she idolizes Brady's wife Sarah, who has since made it her goal to disarm America, and uses quotes from Reagan's would-be assassin to support Mrs. Brady's gun-control bill. That the author mentioned "devastator" bullets, which she claims explode on impact (they don't exist in .22 caliber), suggests to me that she should perhaps educate herself further on the ageneda she promoted. To conclude, if I wanted a book promoting gun-control, I'd have bought one entitled like, "Guns: the Evil of Inanimate Objects", not "The President Has Been Shot". I am 14 years old and first read this book in 4th grade.