I’m not a gun guy and I’ve been lazy (I only read the very short article) but to me it seems like a 10/10 “What the fuck were they thinking?” screw up by the Secret Service.
Sniper shot at former President Donald Trump from 130 yards away on roof of manufacturing plant
130 yards?!! The fuck was he using a snub nosed revolver, how you miss at that range?
He likely didn’t adjust for elevation and windage. He likely had the crosshairs exactly lined up where wanted but was too inexperienced or in too much of a rush to properly adjust
you really shouldn’t need to adjust for 120 meters beyond setting up your sights for 100 meters then aiming ever so slightly above it. Like unless you’ve literally got zero weapons experience to know how to put the apple on the post, in which case why are you trying to assasssinate a politician, any shooter should know the most basics of basics of firearm usage
Judging by photos that caught the bullets in flight the shots were at the correct height. The shoot missed to the sides of the target not up/down. Genuine incompetence.
This shooter missed 8 shots from 400 feet? What? Was this a smoothbore muzzle loader or something?
I’ve hit targets 400 feet away with a revolver, goddamn
In the video you can see Secret Service facing his direction for several seconds before Trump is shot at. It’s baffling.
I assume secret service has protocols to wait up to and basically right up to the exact moment of action by an attacker. Even though it should be common knowledge that you cannot do this because of basically what we saw today, surely tons of people do things like climb nearby buildings and maybe even setup like tripods to photograph or video politicians. The secret service isn’t just gonna brain some guy 150m out if there’s any chance he’s not doing the damn thing. Of course they should’ve had local police or secret service at that location either on the roof or blocking access. Crazy that this was allowed at all. Crazy that the shooter seemingly knew he could get away with it. Maybe he saw how secret service guarded the area in the past or just got lucky. This whole thing is gonna fuel so many crazy conspiracies for years to come
surely tons of people do things like climb nearby buildings and maybe even setup like tripods to photograph or video politicians. The secret service isn’t just gonna brain some guy 150m out if there’s any chance he’s not doing the damn thing.
Evidently they don’t because I’m sure people do what you describe but how do you, as a country, get to “Cop starts shooting at handcuffed perp in his own car because an acorn dropped on it” vs. “Our ROE says we can’t shoot first to protect whoever the secret service protects”?
What I don’t get is why on earth didn’t the SS keep Trump’s head down as they got him out of there? This seems like the most basic, obvious shit to do if you’re trying to protect someone. Sure, maybe the gunman on the roof was already dead, but there was no way to know whether he was working alone. There could’vebeen someone else waitingto take a shot. Aren’t the SS guys supposed to be highly trained?
What I don’t get is why on earth didn’t the SS keep Trump’s head down as they got him out of there?
My wild hunch is that Trump’s entire Secret Security detail and all their supervisors are totally incompetent because Trump made certain of only one thing. That everybody connected to his direct protection was loyal to him. So everybody is some combination of dimwitted, impatient, arrogant, and entirely unprofessional.
They also let him break from the bodily shield to ignite the crowd for several seconds lol
what were they thinking?
