Reagan shooter John Hinckley Jr. says he's 'a victim of cancel culture'



John Hinckley Jr., the man who decades ago was found not guilty by reason of insanity after shooting President Ronald Reagan, now claims that he has become "a victim of cancel culture," according to the New York Post.

Hinckley, who writes original music, sings, and plays guitar, has a YouTube channel with more than 36,000 subscribers.

He was scheduled to perform at a venue in Connecticut later this month, but the performance was postponed indefinitely, he told the New York Post. A post on the Instagram page of Hotel Huxley promoted the performance, but later, another post by the venue included a message that read, "YOU GUESSED IT: POSTPONED UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE (They're killin us here)."

"I think that's fair to say: I'm a victim of cancel culture," he said, according to the Post. "It keeps happening over and over again." According to the outlet, Hinckley estimated that a dozen planned performances were nixed because "owners don't want the controversy."

"They book me and then the show gets announced and then the venue starts getting backlash," he said, according to the outlet. "The owners always cave, they cancel. It’s happened so many times, it's kinda what I expect," he said. "I don’t really get upset."

"I'm just not the person I used to be. I have a different mindset than I did long, long ago," Hinckley said, according to the outlet, which reported that he declined to elaborate or discuss the shooting. "I don’t want to dwell on the past," he said. "Let's stay in the present."

In a post on X, he wrote, "With all of my concerts canceled, it’s a fair statement to say I'm a victim of cancel culture!"


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Reagan was not the only individual wounded when Hinckley perpetrated the shooting in 1981. According to secretservice.gov, "Hinckley fired six shots. One hit White House Press Secretary James Brady in the head. Another struck Metropolitan Police Officer Thomas Delahanty in the neck. Special Agent Tim McCarthy was hit in the abdomen as he turned to shield the president. Two shots ricocheted off the presidential limousine. It was one of those two shots that hit the president under his left arm, grazing a rib and narrowly missing his heart. The sixth shot traveled across the street and penetrated a window."

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Concert venue hosting John Hinckley Jr. performance says would-be presidential assassin 'didn't f*** up ... as many lives' as Ronald Reagan



A New York City concert venue hosting a performance this summer by John Hinckley, Jr. — the would-be assassin of former President Ronald Reagan — said in a now-deleted tweet that "Hinckley didn't f*** up a billionth as many lives as the Reagan admin did."

What's the background?

Hinckley seriously wounded Reagan in a 1981 shooting on a Washington, D.C., sidewalk; he was found not guilty by reason of insanity and institutionalized at St. Elizabeths Hospital in Washington, D.C., for more than 30 years.

A judge ruled in 2016 that Hinckley no longer was a danger to himself or the public and could live with his mother full-time in Williamsburg, Virginia. His mother died last summer.

In September, the court ruled that Hinckley would be “unconditionally released” in June 2022 after several years of gradually loosening restrictions on him.

In the meantime he created a YouTube account to help launch his music career, and last week Hinckley announced his July 8 performance at the Market Hotel in Brooklyn.

Twitter battle

After Hinckley tweeted the news about the show, one commenter tweeted at the Market Hotel, saying, "Better cancel this. What are you thinking[?]"

The hotel replied, "The man served 40 years in prison / mental health treatment, paid his debt to society. Several darlings of indie music had mental health issues + committed violence / tried to kill people. Daniel Johnston for instance attempted murder more than once and tried to crash an airplane."

The commenter came back with, "Something about trying to kill a president makes this one different, hope you lose money!" and later added "that asshole changed a lot of people's lives for their life, he is a piece of s**t!"

The hotel then offered the following, which has disappeared from the thread but is preserved for posterity on the Internet Archive: "Ha! Hinckley didn't f*** up a billionth as many lives as the Reagan admin did. And Hinckley at least faced some comeuppance for what he did. He served 40 years, acknowledged his actions, expressed remorse, was out of his mind incapacitated when he did his crimes and got treatment."

Hinckley tweeted Tuesday that his Market Hotel show is sold out; the following day he told followers to "stay tuned for more dates added to The John Hinckley Redemption Tour."

John Hinckley Sings “You and I Are Free” Original Songyoutu.be

Anything else?

Hinckley, 66, lives alone and is required to attend individual and group therapy sessions while doctors monitor him. He's federally barred from owning a gun and cannot contact Reagan’s descendants or actress Jodie Foster, with whom Hinckley was obsessed at the time of the shooting.