# Why aren't assassinations more common? (not advocating)

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [December 9, 2024, 5:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-arent-assassinations-more-common-not-advocating/1011408 "2024-12-09T17:05:12Z")\
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**Post date:** [December 9, 2024, 8:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-arent-assassinations-more-common-not-advocating/1011408/28 "2024-12-09T20:34:14Z")

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FYI, your remark about King Christian of Denmark is what caused this thread about filking to happen.

> [@Any filk singers/listeners among us?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-filk-singers-listeners-among-us/1011414):
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> Weird how it happens, ain’t it? Someone in another thread brings up King Christian of Denmark, I remember that Peter S. Beagle once sang a song titled “Ballad of King Christian X, King of Denmark, 1912-1945” and that it was on a Bayfilk collection…and the next thing you know I am listening to “Bayfilk III Center Stage”, which I haven’t listened to for almost two decades! I have been attending bardic/filk circles at science fiction and fantasy conventions since about 1983, which can go on from …

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