John Hinckley canceled again

Cancel culture strikes again for John Hinckley.

The gunman-turned-guitarist who shot then-President Ronald Reagan outside a Washington D.C. hotel in 1981 announced Tuesday that he would be performing music he wrote during his four decades of incarceration. Later that day, Williamsburg Regional Library, where his performance was to have taken place, reportedly announced it had decided against hosting that November show in its nearly 300-seat Virginia venue.

John Hinckley Jr. arrives at U.S. District Court in Washington, Nov 18, 2003. (Evan Vucci/)

“Based on the tenor of the communications the library received, it became evident that this event would be disruptive to library operations,” the library said in a statement to the Richmond Times-Dispatch, which first reported on the back-and-forth.

After being freed from all court restrictions in June, Hinckley planned to soon begin his multi-city “Redemption” tour in Brooklyn on July 8. That gig was nixed by Market Hotel in Brooklyn, which argued in a statement that “this is a sexagenarian with an acoustic guitar,” before relenting to public pressure “after seeing the nature of who this booking has antagonized, and who and what those folks are upset about.”

Hinckley confirmed on Twitter that his recent library booking had been called off.

“My concert at the Williamsburg Library theatre was announced and canceled on the same day,” he tweeted. “That makes 4 venues that have canceled on me.”

Hinckley announced in June that “Redemption Tour” dates in Connecticut and Chicago had also been canceled.

The aspiring musician has posted several of his original songs on YouTube with titles including “Can’t We Get Along” and “You and I Are Free.”

He was found not guilty of trying to kill the 40th president by reason of insanity and sentenced to a psychiatric-care facility in 1982. Hinckley, 67, was granted conditional released in 2016 before being fully freed in June.

Reagan died in 2004. He was 93. His press secretary, James Brady, was seriously wounded by a Hinckley gunshot. Brady suffered serious health problems the rest of his life, and when he died in 2014, his death was ruled a homicide due to the 1981 shooting.