Hello and welcome to Brokeonomics. Now, in this episode, I wanted to look at political assassinations

following the murder of Charlie Kirk and asked the question, did the assassinations of past,

did they have any particular impact? And were the assassins' goals met or were it or did it backfire completely now of course i know a

little bit about things that happened but we have in the studio today with us bo who is our chief

chap of knowing about things that have happened so thank you for coming on bo yeah no thank you

it's always a pleasure oh good thank you very much must, Bo. Yeah, no, thank you. It's always a pleasure.

Oh, good. Thank you very much.

Must do your show again quite soon.

I've got a documentary to watch, which I keep remembering every time I think it,

and then I'm going to get back to that soon.

So we do zone together soon.

Political assassinations.

So I looked at some of the numbers, and apparently the US has something like 3,600 political assassinations since 1975.

Oh, really?

Yes.

However, 83% of them occurred on 9-11.

Oh, I was going to say, that's a fantastically high number. Yes. But, okay, if you count everyone that died in 9-11? Yes. All right. That's nearly all of them then, isn't it? 83% of that, of whatever that is. So that's most of them. And then you get, and then you get Islamic terrorism is like the next one at like 10% or something.

So they're counting all of those as well?

Yes.

Okay.

If you strip them out, I mean, they happen on a regular beat, but they're fairly spaced out.

They're not on everyday occurrence yet.

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