# Why do American Presidents get so many assassination attempts compared to other world leaders? **URL:** \ **Category:** Great Debates\ **Created:** [January 14, 2017, 3:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-american-presidents-get-so-many-assassination-attempts-compared-to-other-world-leaders/777092 "2017-01-14T03:21:41Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 47
**Author:** ![Martini\_Enfield](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/martini_enfield/32/11123_2.png) [@Martini\_Enfield](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Martini_Enfield)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2017, 11:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-american-presidents-get-so-many-assassination-attempts-compared-to-other-world-leaders/777092/47 "2017-01-15T23:28:05Z")
> [@raventhief](#): > > How is Angela Merkel walking down the street LESS accessible than the POTUS? When Angela Merkel was in Brisbane for G20 about two years ago, she famously went to a local bar for drinks. As in, wandered into a bar like a normal person and had a drink, like a normal person, with the other normal people one might find in Brisbane bar. Not as a publicity stunt or anything, but because she wanted to have a drink. Obviously she had a minder or two discreetly with her, but the fundamental point was the chancellor of a major first world country could quite safely have a drink in a pub in another major first world country on a whim because she felt like it. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-american-presidents-get-so-many-assassination-attempts-compared-to-other-world-leaders/777092)._