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It sure sucks that the kid in PA was such a shit shot.
I'm still not convinced it wasn't faked
The bullet missed. The injury to his ear was from the secret service agent slamming against his head as he ducked down. Replay footage of the event confirmed.
But I doubt it was staged. It was a real assassination attempt. Maybe the next one will go better. Thoughts and prayers.
You see that video of someone on Trump's staff ushering in photographers to get a better shot less than 5 seconds after Trump was "hit"?
Crazy that in that moment of totally unprepared chaos, his first thought wasn't personal safety, or safety for the president, but rather moving journalists into an exposed area in an active shooter zone for a better angle of Trump posing.
Crazy how we still know almost nothing about the shooter, nor is anyone really calling to find out.
Crazy how the Secret Service watched the shooter crawl across the roof, while people in the crowd shouted and pointed at him, but didn't take any kind of shot until after he opened fire.
Now, was it a real assassination attempt? Yea, probably. But there's enough weird stuff that I can see why people question it.
I don't think that's how that happened. It was local PD that was informed. There was a fuck up in their communication with the SS.
We know enough that neither side can use him as a political tool, so people care less.
It was staged..no way would be he secret service let him stand up and photo op without knowing the area wa clear - which they did not.
Are we sure the real target wasn’t the guy who actually got shot?
I'd laugh, if this was a jest. But I remember reading it was a firefighter. Even if they were diet fascist, the loss of innocent life is heartbreaking.
There are no innocent people at a Nazi rally.
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Both sides dehumanizing each other is why this is so going to end really, really messily.
I do agree that it will get messy. The nazis started this civil war though, the blood is on their hands.
Yes?
The blood might also have come from scraping the back of his hand against the agent's pistol when he first ducked down. Either way, superficial injury and the bullet was likely way off based on the angles.
So we get VD Cabbage Prat? Or, do you mean a series of said events, coordinated and thorough?
I said on day 1 this is some trump stage drama
Sucked MUCH more to hear the entire democratic party wring their hands and come out immediately with statements about how "political violence is unacceptable under any circumstances."
I wish he'd hit too, but I don't think it's fair to call him a shit shot. All things considered, he almost fucking pulled it off.
Nah, if you can't hit that large a target from 135m you're a shit shot. Kid should have been accurate up to 300m, especially with an AR-15.
Let's see your groups.
I'm not even a good shot and my groups are 1 MOA at 100m.
1 MOA at 300 yards is 3 inches. That margin of error is the difference between grazing an ear and a kill shot.
That's why when you're trained you know to aim for center mass. He was roughly 150m from Trump, that's a 1.5" group at 1 MOA. If you didn't hit your target within 8 shots at that distance, you're a shitty shot. You would never qualify in the military that's for sure, and their standards are laughable.
Again, he was a skinny teenage kid, under some pressure that neither you or I have ever shot under. I'd rather applaud the effort than criticize the very near miss.
Y'all got any more o' them "well-armed against tyranny" militias? scritch 😶🌫️🥲