I love people who think two seconds after someone yells gun a sniper is going to shoot someone. uvalde went on for hours.
Independent of Uvalde, it’s generally a bad idea as a sniper to just take someone else’s wors that the target you’re looking at is hostile. Kinda wanna confirm for yourself before you pull the trigger.
The best part is there was a police officer who climbed the roof and saw the shooter, who threatened him with the gun, so he turned around. Trump got shot because of scaredy-cop.
https://www.reddit.com/r/news/comments/1e3c07y/local_police_officer_encountered_shooter_before/
Sauce is AP News. Police officer likely saved Trump’s life by making gunman rush for his shots.
The one time I wish they were pussies and they can’t even get that right.
Trump was incredibly lucky. Shooter guy was also lucky and fairly skilled, but mostly exploited the incompetence or the security. Few cm-s to the right and he would have made history. Though I as an EU citizen would have preferred if he just stayed home. If Trump died, there would already be a civil war, and now he’ll “just” win the election, which is also not great regarding the future support of Ukraine and security of Europe.
Shooter guy was … fairly skilled
Lol, not really. Hitting a bullseye on an 8 inch target is stupid easy at that distance with a rifle.
Either his sight was not properly set, or he was not very good with it. Or maybe both.
Who knows. Glad he sucked. It’s just a shame his missed shots hit people.
No luck about it. Luck is for people who don’t plan.
I don’t think this is going to make the election play out much differently. Trumps crazies were already going to turn out. I’m still going to turn out.
Any source for that?
https://www.reddit.com/r/news/comments/1e3c07y/local_police_officer_encountered_shooter_before/
Sauce is AP News. Police officer likely saved Trump’s life by making gunman rush for his shots.
The one time I wish they were pussies and they can’t even get that right.
~~Non-Reddit linked sauce: https://apnews.com/live/election-biden-trump-campaign-updates-07-13-2024#00000190-b27e-dc4e-ab9d-ba7eb1060000~~
Jk it won’t work.
My cousin dreamt it
I sauced.
Glad to help. And yeah, remember that Lemmy has far fewer checks and balances on manipulation than reddit does. Providing sauce during current world events is just good etiquette.
Thanks for holding me accountable for being a good lemmy/fediverse netizen. 😊
Is this real? I hadn’t heard that part yet
Tis. I provided sauce from AP News on reddit.
Fake lmao why lie
I sauced Lordsinguloth.
The NRA and the like will probably use this again as an opportunity to demand even more and even bigger weapons for the police, the Secret Service and everyone else. Not that it will do any good, but they’ll try anyway, I suppose.
The RNC responded to this by banning Tennis Balls, but saying guns are okay. I’m not joking.
Damn, you are indeed not joking. I had to double-check because it’s so ridiculous.
Why not arm everyone in the crown. Good guy with a gun and all. Or, just call it democracy via bullet, that’s what they want anyway. Just let the mob shoot it out at every rally.
You see, the problem wasn’t that the agents didn’t follow through on tips from the public, or have a marksman on the highest available rooftop for surveillance and counter sniping. No, the issue was that the agents could not simply shoot through the building to get the shooter.
That’s why they need recoiless rifles for the agents
Yup, would have been easy to just nuke the guy as well.
But… but he’s not a hurricane… I guess they could fix him up with horse tranquilliser and bleach afterwards though. (adding a /s here for the terminally oblivious)
One day hopefully, we get another Kyle Rittenhouse type in there to kick off the party, and they will shoot each other.
One of the few times where the problem could be the solution…
Uvalde police department wasn’t meant to prevent shootings. (Or deal with ongoing ones either, in their opinion)
Yeah, but local police never blinks an eye to kill random person, esp non white, if they feel “scared”
I guess they did not feel “scared” enough here?
hmm, i wonder why…
It’s a mystery!
Also noone can know how many people didn’t even try to shoot trump or any (former) president for that matter, because the Secret Service was there with them.
Secret service ignored him cause he was supposed to be there. The false flag operation was already set in motion.
On a more serious note, he had minutes between being spotted and taking his shot.
The Uvalde shooter had hours.
The fact that he was a right-wing YouTuber does raise some big red flags, though.
Especially after he started yelling ‘like and subscribe’ from the rooftop
The Secret Service doesn’t let Presidents mug for the camera if a REAL threat is present.
I don’t like the extrapolation that Trump is the analog of innocent school children.
I don’t like the extrapolation that the person that was killed wasn’t an innocent victim because they were at a Trump rally.
And his parents shipped him away to some far off school for being such a little prick.
Most kids are pricks at one point or another. The trick is to grow out of it.
Innocent school children.
Well spotted, I stand corrected
is it credible to operate a rifle with a violin bow?
It’s generally considered a bad idea because you might miss and clip their ear instead.
I think in some jurisdictions it’s considered a bump stock.
I ain’t paid enough to kill people for Trump
