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American gun heroes: Jack Ruby, Lynette "Squeaky" Fromme, David Chapman, Lee Harvey Oswald, James Earl Ray and John Wilkes Booth

In these United States of America, where the National Rife Association writes our gun laws while woefully misinterpreting the Second Amendment to the Constitution, we just love a good ol' assassination or assassination attempt.

Vance Boelter joins the NRA Hall of Shame after allegedly rifling to death Minnesota State Representative Melissa Hortman and her husband, while putting multiple bullets into State Senator John Hoffman and his wife.

Boelter, who "gave his life to Jesus" at age 17, has been a preacher of the Gospel ever since, even traveling to the Middle East to share the teachings of Jesus and explain to militant Islamists that "violence wasn't the answer."

Spreading the Word has taken Boelter to "North and South America. . . I've been to the Middle East, I've been to Eastern Europe, and I’ve been in the Democratic Republic of Congo. I’ve never been in a country before like the DRC that has had so much taken away. I hear the history, and it hits my heart. So many people, so many countries have taken, taken, taken,” he said in 2022.

Boelter has also been critical of the LGBTQ.

“There’s people especially in America, they don’t know what sex they are, they don’t know their sexual orientation, they’re confused. The enemy has gotten so far into their mind and their soul,” he said in a sermon at a Pentecostal church in the eastern DRC.

It remains to be seen if Boelter's gun crimes will rise to the notoriety of John Wilkes Booth, Lee Harvey Oswald, James Earl Ray, Sirhan Sirhan and David Chapman, folks with three names or two repetitious names, I was able to retrieve from memory without consulting Google or Wikipedia.

Boelter may wind up as a mere sideman or footnote to gun history like Jack Ruby or Lynette "Squeaky" Fromme as blame will certainly be laid at possible mental illness, not his easy access to the sacred rifle.