How devastated were you about President Garfield’s assassination?

[Anonymous]

He was a good man, and he could’ve been a great president. It wasn’t fair.

[OneViewpoint]

Given that Garfield died 144 years ago I don't have a whole hell of a lot of emotional investment in his assassination. I was only a wee lad at the time.

[Anonymous]

I didn't know that lazy, tabby cat was ever president!! And he was assassinated! My gosh...

https://www.youtube.com/embed/4zESTGhChCU

[Anonymous]

I wasn't, since it was well over 100 years later when I found out and had already pre-emptively moved on.

[emeraldsaphire]

I cry about it every day. The orange cat got shot, but they missed orange Hitler

[jazzy34]

1.) I wasn’t alive then. None of us were.


2.) Unfortunately, he was president for only four months. Not enough time to really accomplish anything.

[lightbulb27]

before my time,

this life is not fair, that I guarantee.

[Likes2drive]

I’m pretty sure there is no one alive today to have been around to tell us how they felt about that, I know I wasn’t

[Asker]

How do you know for sure?

[Likes2drive]

Because I think they’d be around 150 years old

[exitseven]

My ancestors were all still in Italy so they probably did not care.

[beefcakebradybatson]

Wasn't Garfield's assassination in 1881?

[Asker]

Ok. 9/11 is still traumatizing too. Time doesn’t wipe that away

[beefcakebradybatson]

Twenty-four years and 3,000 casualties are near enough to our day to be ever-present in our conscious. An assassination of even an American President more than seven generations ago, while disturbing, lacks the same immediacy and magnitude.

[Asker]

145 years is seven generations? Everyone having a kid at 20/21 is pushing it

[FunkyMonkee]

I wasn't alive then.