keitha
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Jul 16, 2024 9:32:21 GMT
Post by keitha on Jul 16, 2024 9:32:21 GMT
SS agents have multiple levels of operational protocols.
"they wouldn't let me shoot" doesn't ring true
if there is "clear and present danger" the protocol is they can take the guy out without orders, and indeed they wouldn't ask.
just being on the roof with a weapon isn't clear danger the moment he starts to set the gun up to shoot and aims it in the general direction of Trump is. They are also trained to hit centre mass IE the chest etc it is a much bigger target than the head.
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jo
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Jul 16, 2024 9:55:49 GMT
Post by jo on Jul 16, 2024 9:55:49 GMT
I generally suspect buffoonery before conspiracy.
At this point, there are so many different agencies involved in security in the US that I could see an argument for the counter sniper team wondering 'is this guy one of ours?'. And don't forget, snipers use their scopes for surveillance, as well as for aiming.
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Jul 16, 2024 11:21:23 GMT
Post by bracknellboy on Jul 16, 2024 11:21:23 GMT
You need to look more closely. I wasn't suggesting he wasn't at the rally. I watched the interview shortly after it was published. His hat ... surely more important he had 20/20 vision to spot the sniper 🙄 Yeah, but the hat is hilarious. If you spot it........
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keitha
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Post by keitha on Jul 16, 2024 11:32:37 GMT
Funnily the hat was the first thing that struck me, maybe he'll modify it again for 2028
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keitha
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Jul 16, 2024 11:34:52 GMT
Post by keitha on Jul 16, 2024 11:34:52 GMT
I generally suspect buffoonery before conspiracy. At this point, there are so many different agencies involved in security in the US that I could see an argument for the counter sniper team wondering 'is this guy one of ours?'. And don't forget, snipers use their scopes for surveillance, as well as for aiming. yes but the shooter had an AK47 is is one of US friends puts it "a point and spray" weapon rather than a precision weapon
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Post by ilmoro on Jul 16, 2024 12:11:03 GMT
His hat ... surely more important he had 20/20 vision to spot the sniper 🙄 Yeah, but the hat is hilarious. If you spot it........ Think about my answer
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Jul 16, 2024 12:29:14 GMT
Post by bracknellboy on Jul 16, 2024 12:29:14 GMT
Yeah, but the hat is hilarious. If you spot it........ Think about my answer OK, you got me first time.
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Jul 16, 2024 12:53:14 GMT
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Post by mogish on Jul 16, 2024 12:53:14 GMT
Trump needs a new doctor. The ear bandage is rather large. It would never be that size for effect/hero status surely?
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keitha
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Jul 16, 2024 13:11:05 GMT
Post by keitha on Jul 16, 2024 13:11:05 GMT
Trump needs a new doctor. The ear bandage is rather large. It would never be that size for effect/hero status surely? more that's a standard sized dressing on the ear dunno about hero status more victim, and of course he may be able to play the sorry can't hear card in the presidential debates. I think Biden has gaffed ( hopefully for the last time ) by saying "i said put him in the bullseye, not put him in the cross hairs" for me the bullseye is the centre of the target, the thing you aim to hit, Crosshairs is what you see through a scope sight when you aim at a target and you align the cross hairs on what you want to hit.
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Jul 16, 2024 13:12:43 GMT
Post by michaelc on Jul 16, 2024 13:12:43 GMT
Well, well, well. Now we have another piece of the jigsaw. Biden said “it’s time to put Trump in the bullseye”.
Oh of course he meant something else? He was speaking metaphorically obviously.... Otherwise he'd be a murderer.
Most chilling of all by far, is not whether or not Biden ordered it but the fact we continue to have folk to believe their goal is more important than democracy itself. Its the same people who after the referendum in the UK tried to get it annulled because they believed so strongly that their view is more important than anybody else's.
Same with Trump. Their view is that he is a horrible/racist/facist/hitler-sympathising/ piece of work and should be prevented at all costs from regaining office. So drumming up a load of legal cases against him and now apparently someone having attempted to assassinate him is well worth it because their view that this man in unfit for office is more important than the collective American view.
Aside, from my views on Ukraine (where I want Trump to win as I believe he will end the war quickest) I don't particularly like Trump at all. Virtually all his policies are too far to the right and I don't think he can represent the ordinary American. The biggest problem I have with this by far is that the democratic system in the US is at real risk (as it was in the UK following the 2016 referendum).
I think it highly likely, that when Trump gets in, he's going to give Biden a taste of his own medicine. And to be clear, whether by legal cases or otherwise, it is something I do not want to see but I'm afraid we are going to see it.
And in case its still not 100% clear by now, I want the guy that people vote for to get in and the other one to be left alone. Whoever they are. Otherwise we and the US will end up like in Rwanda where the bloke was "voted" in by 99% of the electorate today - or was it yesterday?
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Post by Greenwood2 on Jul 16, 2024 13:29:59 GMT
Trump winning is scary, Biden winning is equally scary because the Trump supporters won't believe it and the protests will be huge and coordinated this time. I don't know which would be worse.
If I wanted to assassinate Trump and I was the CIA, FBI or whatever department it would be, I would use a sharpened umbrella with a fatal disease on the tip in classic Russian style.
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Post by Steerpike on Jul 16, 2024 14:38:21 GMT
Can't help feeling disappointed that people are joking about this incident, a man lost his life protecting his family.
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Jul 16, 2024 15:14:31 GMT
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Post by benaj on Jul 16, 2024 15:14:31 GMT
Well, I tried to mention the dad in this incident and it seems many people doesn’t feel him or “like” my post at all. Some jokes I see here have nothing to do with the bloke who “shielded” for his family. At least some money are raised for the family victims I hope.
Meanwhile, Mr Hunt who lost his three women in his life has someone else raising money on Gofundme after a young man hunted three women with short range weapon, a crossbow.
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jo
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Post by jo on Jul 16, 2024 15:54:09 GMT
I generally suspect buffoonery before conspiracy. At this point, there are so many different agencies involved in security in the US that I could see an argument for the counter sniper team wondering 'is this guy one of ours?'. And don't forget, snipers use their scopes for surveillance, as well as for aiming. yes but the shooter had an AK47 is is one of US friends puts it "a point and spray" weapon rather than a precision weapon Thought it was an AR-15 or adjacent?
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Jul 16, 2024 17:33:35 GMT
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Post by benaj on Jul 16, 2024 17:33:35 GMT
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