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Only in america would this happen, anywhere else he would be hanged
shoot the president and go live with mommy in a golf course community...
Reagan shooter finds rejection, indifference in future home
The last man to shoot an American president now spends most of the year
in a house overlooking the 13th hole of a golf course in a gated
community.
He likes taking walks, plays guitar and paints, eats at Wendy's and
drives around in a Toyota. Often, as if to avoid detection, he puts on a
hat or visor before going out.
John Hinckley Jr. lives much of the year like any average Joe: shopping, eating out, watching movies.
Hinckley was just 25 when he shot President Ronald Reagan and three
others in 1981. When jurors found him not guilty by reason of insanity,
they said he needed treatment, not a lifetime in confinement. The
verdict left open the possibility that he would one day live outside a
mental hospital.
For the past year, under a judge's order, Hinckley has spent 17 days a
month at his mother's home in Williamsburg, a small southeastern
Virginia city. Freedom has come in stages and with strict requirements:
meeting regularly in Williamsburg with a psychiatrist and a therapist,
volunteering. It has all been part of a lengthy process meant to
reintegrate Hinckley, now nearing 60, back into society
