Patricia is far too trigger-happy to acquaint herself with the facts
“Now the big danger is that Irish protesters will be more at risk from George Bush’s trigger-happy security people than ever from terrorist actions.”
Next day on the RTÉ radio programme ‘Liveline’, a man who had spent many years in an American police force called to protest that no secret service agent had ever fired a shot in defence of the president since the force was established in the 1860s, following the assassination of Abraham Lincoln. Many people will be able to remember the more highly publicised attempts on the lives of various presidents.