Welcome to Breakpoint, a daily look and an ever-changing culture through the lens of

unchanging truth. For the Colson Center, I'm John Stone Street.

Saturday marked the end of the longest span between domestic assassination attempts

of U.S. presidents and presidential candidates since President Lincoln was

killed at Ford's Theater in 1865. In 1881, President Garfield was assassinated.

McKinley in 1901.

Attempts were made at Theodore Roosevelt in 1912, Franklin Roosevelt in 1933, and Truman

in 1950. President JFK was killed in 1963 and candidate RFK in 1968.

Candidate George Wallace was shot and survived in 1972 and two attempts were made at

President Ford in 1975. The most recent domestic assassination attempt prior

to Saturday was over 40 years ago when Ronald Reagan was shot and survived and of course afterward famously

quipped to his wife Nancy, honey, I forgot to duck.

Now while the frequency of this violent history might be surprising to some,

it doesn't diminish at all the horrific and evil nature of Saturday's shooting,

nor does it diminish the tremendous loss now experienced by the family of Corey Compertor.

According to the New York Times, Compertor died when he and I quote here

threw himself over his family members to shield them.

A former fire chief, Compertory, was also described by his daughter this way,

quote, as the best dad a girl could ever ask for. My sister and I never needed for anything.

You call? He'd answer. He could talk and make friends

with anyone, which he was doing all day at the rally and loved every minute of it. He was a man of

God, loved Jesus fiercely, and also looked after our church and our members as family."

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