Reason For Assassinations

Assassinations, Reasons Why, and Responses Afterward Assassinations are the virtual antithesis of legal process and are viewed by many as an immoral act (Turley). With each assassination, a different outcry for change occurs. “No one really ‘wins’ in the assassination game, and the whirlwind of repercussion has an unpredictable path of death and destruction (Shea).” Political assassinations don’t have a true outcome except retaliation, whatever the reason, what comes next will be violence. There really isn’t a real reason for killing someone; you just harm yourself in the long run. Violence causes more violence which then leads to a controversy between many. “Assassinations are often based on incomplete information. In a given attack it may never be proven that a particular individual was responsible. An intelligence agency may not sweat the specifics on evidence before calling in a hit on a terrorist (Turley).” Without common knowledge of who did it, the government jumps to conclusions on well-known terrorists or those capable of doing it. “The use of assassination does not achieve the immediate objective of eliminating a political adversary, but sets off a long-term wave of recrimination (Shea).” Lost partnerships with
After the attempts on his life, Ferdinand reached Sarajevo’s city hall. Being frustrated by the lack of security, the archduke decided to leave and take the road he came from instead of the planned route through the city, where Ferdinand was sure that there would be more attacks. On the way back running into Gavrilo Princip, and assassinating the archduke and his wife. “Gavrilo Princip, a national hero prior to Yugoslavia’s early 1900’s disintegration into warring fractions was now considered a criminal terrorist by Bosnia” (Devoss). This shows that Gavrilo was a hero, but ended in terror at the start of World War