Ronald Reagan’s daughter’s open letter to Donald Trump is worth a read

Ronald Reagan‘s daughter, Patti Davis, has written an open letter to Donald Trump criticising him for his suggestion that Hillary Clinton could be stopped with the second amendment – the implication being to shoot her.

Reagan himself was shot in 1981, by John Warnock Hinckley Jr., a clearly disturbed man who was attempting to impress Jodie Foster. If this makes utterly no sense then you’re right, but basically watch Taxi Driver and imagine it’s an instruction booklet rather an a meditation on alienation.

Patti Davis‘s letter is powerful and worth reading.

To Donald Trump:

I am the daughter of a man who was shot by someone who got his inspiration from a movie, someone who believed if he killed the President the actress from that movie would notice him.

Your glib and horrifying comment about “Second Amendment people” was heard around the world. It was heard by sane and decent people who shudder at your fondness for verbal violence.

It was heard by your supporters, many of whom gleefully and angrily yell, “Lock her up!” at your rallies.

It was heard by the person sitting alone in a room, locked in his own dark fantasies, who sees unbridled violence as a way to make his mark in the world, and is just looking for ideas.

Yes, Mr. Trump, words matter. But then you know that, which makes this all even more horrifying.

Source: https://www.facebook.com/patti.davis.39?fref=nf&pnref=story