• Arbiter@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    Simply put the secret service is not the infallible killing machines they’d like people to think they are.

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      4 months ago

      yet one would think they would better secure one of the few roofs that is so close to the stage? it is not like this was a city square with one hundred rooftops and they let one slip. This was more like someone sticking a finger right in their eyes.

    • DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social
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      4 months ago

      Idk man they returned fire pretty much immediately. How’d he have time to line up a shot? A not bad shot for an amateur at that.

      Are we to believe they were just a second too late?

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      4 months ago

      The SS snipers were looking at the guy before he fired, they waited until he fired to shoot. My point being, they absolutely had the capability

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        4 months ago

        Yeah but you need a hard ID that the guy has a gun. The second worst thing to letting a former president get shot is killing a random person at a rally because you thought they might have a gun.

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        4 months ago

        Damn, that morning coffee hasn’t kicked in yet. Even despite the context it took me a few seconds to realise you meant Secret Service, not Schutzstaffel. Although the latter feels awfully appropriate when we’re talking about Trump.