(July 15, 2024 at 8:51 pm)h4ym4n Wrote:

(July 15, 2024 at 7:47 pm)Thumpalumpacus Wrote: I hit 40 out of 40 at 100 yards to earn "expert marksman", Air Force style. 164 yards, yes, tougher shot, but doable. Shooter did wing Trump, after all. Center-of-mass is how I was trained. Had the shooter aimed for center-mass I think the headlines would be a bit different.

If you watch closely, god turned trumps head at just the right time to explode some other cultist head behind him.

What an awesome god.

You don’t think Trump was wearing body armor?

I don't know. He didn't look any fatter than normal.

(July 15, 2024 at 8:06 pm)Jackalope Wrote: I trained in the Army, center of mass was how we were trained.  At 150ish yards with 5.56 and iron sights, center of mass is not very difficult, though I will say a lot of recruits couldn't hit the broad side of a barn from the inside.  An expert marksman could easily make the shot on a non moving target, IMO.

Especially with the M-16/AR-15 setup of a ring in the back, which eases the elevation issues in a very natural manner contrasted against open-v sights, which is what I learnt on as a boy.

It's also a very easy rifle to dial in.

The kid was probably breathing hot.

They have sights now that would more accurately be called targeting computers. They can cost as much as the weapon itself though. I'm guessing he had the traditional iron sights.

Emotional state is everything. You would have to be emotionally dead to not be overwhelmed by the enormity of what you were doing. He HAD to know he was almost guaranteed to be killed by secret service agents after he got a few shots off. You would almost have to be one of Star Trek's Vulcans to keep your breathing under control under those circumstances.

(July 15, 2024 at 11:05 pm)Rev. Rye Wrote: Here’s a news article about it that popped up in my news feed:

Quote: It's long been a staple of the stump speech for President Joe Biden to compare Donald Trump and his supporters to the Nazis, and his fellow Democrats and the liberal media eagerly amplify the ratcheted-up rhetoric.

Now, sadly but predictably, this kind of talk has gotten somebody killed.

Most people believe that killing Hitler would have been a good and moral act if it could have stopped the carnage he wrought. We even have a parlor game suggesting he was so evil he should have been killed as an infant. Comparing anyone to the Nazi dictator is a clear invitation to violence.

The whole article is called What did hard Left expect, after years of hateful anti-Trump rhetoric?

And the answer to that question is simple, and is evidently not something that Fox News seems to consider: we expect the electorate to listen, say “thanks for the warning,” and abandon him.

Republicans: DEMOCRATS INCITED THIS!!!

Also Republicans:

(July 15, 2024 at 7:37 pm)arewethereyet Wrote:

(July 15, 2024 at 6:52 pm)Foxaèr Wrote: My thinking went straight to it having been planned by the far right for the sole purpose of getting more people to vote for Trump.

I would doubt that the young man who was doing the shooting had enough experience and skill as a sniper to simply crease Trump's ear.

The greatest sniper ever probably couldn't intentionally shoot the teleprompter and have the glass hit the orange baboon's ear. The fucker wasn't shot, he was hit with flying debris! He sure as fuck lied about it after the fact, though.

(July 15, 2024 at 8:32 pm)Nanny Wrote:

(July 15, 2024 at 10:02 am)Deesse23 Wrote: That was not my question

My other response got buried. So the bitch deserves it, yeah? Is that what you're getting at? If so I choose not to engage.

Thats not what i asked either. I wanted to lead your awareness towards a potential dilemma, but you seem hellbent to read stuff into my posts that just.isnt.there.

Boru

It's interesting how all the school shooting deniers have kept their mouths shut about this.

Trump got a boo boo and the world is going to hell in a handbasket. Dozens of kids are shot while at school and we are just supposed to move on...nothin' to see here.

(July 16, 2024 at 5:31 am)arewethereyet Wrote: It's interesting how all the school shooting deniers have kept their mouths shut about this.

Trump got a boo boo and the world is going to hell in a handbasket.  Dozens of kids are shot while at school and we are just supposed to move on...nothin' to see here.

Maybe they should just 'get over it', as Dear Leader said.

Boru