Both the Sandy Hook and Washington Navy Yard shootings had early false reports of second shooters. It's not that they don't ever exist -- see Colombine -- but they get overreported early on.
With the level of rhetoric surrounding Trump, it was only a matter of time before something like this happened.
I'm growing increasingly pessimistic that the two cultural sides in the U.S. can make peace. While I don't necessarily assign a high probability to civil war or societal collapse of any kind, I do think it's wise to start making exit plans.
Sounded like .22 lr (squirrel round) multiple shots at stationary target, if the shooter was serious he really needs some range time...lol
I think he got just nicked on the side of his head, someone behind him that's another story, we shall see soon..
Boy, we won't hear the end of it now...
I predict Trumps wins in a landslide...
Trained marksman would take a center of mass shot at this range to avoid the possibility of missing. Headshots are for Hollywood movies or in situations where a center of mass shot isn't possible. You simply have more mass to hit.
Your assuming he had a clear shot to center of mass. For starters, likely that Trump was wearing a good vest. And I'm sure they put bulletproof plates in his podium.
Its pretty early and more info might come to light, but I wouldn't want to jump to any "inside job" theories yet. Maybe they just did a bad job or it could just be complacency after week in week out rallies. Also, the shooter must have known very well that this would be a suicide mission. He would have known that he would be shot.
That’s a nothing shot for a rifleman…beyond easy if you have any competence. My kids shoot prarie dogs at 400m and rarely miss unless it’s windy. This is probably some rando the CIA handed a rifle to.
Well, considering this dude was using a rifle, and IHMSA (handgun silhouette) matches routinely shoot to 200m, (and there are even 500m matches, handgun)…a very good handgun shooter could have made this shot…
With a rifle, I could teach anyone with an pulse to make a 120m shot in an hour on the range.
It's much harder to pull this off when you know this is the last thing you will probably ever do. I'm sure the shooter knew he was likely to die in the process.
I don't know man, the guy was an inch from being dead or very seriously injured, the guy behind him is dead. To plan a "play" like that would be a little far fetched in my book. This is ain't Smollett's performance, just saying....
If by "new" you mean a movie from 1997 which describes a very real phenomenon that was already endemic to the system by the time the movie was made, then yeah, super "new"...
That makes no sense. Did he think he could fight himself out of the situation and disappear afterwards? And then continue to live his life unidentified?
I heard the news, told me wife about it, said something like "wow" and 2 minutes later, already forgot about it. It just felt like a random fait-diver. Almost immune to this kind of news. Not sure what this tells about me...
The video of him pumping his fists after nearly getting shot in the head is going to be iconic. Might even be enough to get him elected.
His opponent is a frightened coward who refused to let Ukraine strike back at Russian air fields after Russia blew up a childrens' hospital (I personally know someone who was at that hospital when it got hit), and two other healthcare facilities in one day.
Biden doesn't either, so not clear how much worse Trump actually is.
After the hospital hit the UK offered Ukraine the ability to hit those airfields with long range storm shadow missiles, and Poland offered to shoot down missiles, and the US immediately made both countries walk back their promises. Biden's administration does not want Ukraine to win.
It's not even a matter of money spent. Ukraine has all the weapons it needs to stop these attacks, and it wouldn't cost that much to do so. The money has been spent. The Biden administration is refusing to give Ukraine permission to actually hit Russia, be it with US weapons, or anyone else's. They're even furious at Ukraine for using their own, indigenously developed, weapons to strike Russia.
As a /~Photography nerd... sometimes the meaning of life if having photos of historic moments.
Like the people that have a photo of when they bought the iphone 1. Knowing it was a historic moment that needed to be photographed is important. Someone in the crowd was thinking fast, ignored all shock, didn't continue to duck and thought about a historic photo first.
What are the odds? This picture showing a sharpshooter with his feet facing forward, just like in today's Trump assassination attempt, was sent out yesterday in a tweet.
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I think that this attack that candidate Trump suffered is simply advertising... marketing looking for a way to make him a martyr and thus manage to boost the numbers towards his candidacy and achieve the presidency... It is so much so that I think that even what he did At the time the shot was fired I was prepared... because it was precisely a graphic that referred to immigrants... an issue on which Trump has little support!! And he seeks to rescue those votes also from that large community in the United States that is growing more and more..
Nobody knows where to shoot him; he's clearly got no heart, his head obviously has no brain in it (and even if its in his arse its too fat to get a bullet through), and his dick (like his baby hands) is obviously too small to hit.
Why did the bullet miss?