248
Unsung hero (thelemmy.club)
submitted 4 months ago by to c/politicalmemes@lemmy.world
110 comments fedilink hide all child comments
 
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] 21 points 4 months ago (4 children)

iirc the shot was 300 yards with iron sights. That's not impossible but it's not easy either. Someone who doesn't shoot often would definitely have trouble with that

  • permalink
  • fedilink
  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 8 child comments
    •
  • [–] 11 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    100 yds with iron sights isn’t exactly easy.

  • permalink
  • fedilink
  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 2 child comments
    •
  • [–] 8 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    Does it matter if he used blanks?

    Yes, I'm implying this was staged and he was just used. Maybe he was even told that he was there to protect trump as a secret backup to USSS. There are a lot of mentally ill people that you could convince of anything.

  • permalink
  • fedilink
  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 4 child comments
    •
  • [–] 17 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    He didn't use blanks, he just missed the target. Unless his target was the firefighter behind Trump in which case he did well. Trump got scratched by either shrapnel (possible), one of the SS officers jumping on him (likely) or it was a blood squib (conspiracy). But he did feel his ear before the SS officers jumped him.

  • permalink
  • fedilink
  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 4 child comments
    •
  • [–] 8 points 4 months ago*

    Unless his target was the firefighter behind Trump in which case he did well.

    Anybody remember that line from Shooter?

    You want to take away all suspicion away when you shoot someone? Shoot him when he's standing next to the president.

    Maybe crazy... but....

  • permalink
  • fedilink
  • source
  • parent
  • [–] 2 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    Why are you assuming he killed that guy?

    If this was staged why would trump give even a tiny chance of being hurt by some loon?

    There were multiple shots fired at the moment.

  • permalink
  • fedilink
  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 2 child comments
    •
  • [–] 2 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    IIRC, the shot was also just inside where the rifle would be effective.

  • permalink
  • fedilink
  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 4 child comments
    •
  • [–] 9 points 4 months ago* (1 child)

    The rifle is effective at ranges further than the shooter. In every case. That rifle is more than capable of a killing shot from there, and further.

    He was 130 m or so away. 5.56 is deadly from further. A lot further.

  • permalink
  • fedilink
  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 2 child comments
    •
  • [–] 4 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    Every marine qualifies with 5.56 at 500m

  • permalink
  • fedilink
  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 4 child comments
    •
  • [–] 1 point 4 months ago

    I don’t like that this is thrown around like it means anything. You do not need to hit that target to qualify, and you will not be very combat effective at that range anyway. Range quals ≠ combat effectiveness.

  • permalink
  • fedilink
  • source
  • parent
  • [–] 3 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    Not even close. In the Marine Corps, we qualified at 500yds with effectively the same rifle using iron sights

  • permalink
  • fedilink
  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 2 child comments
    •
  • [–] 4 points 4 months ago

    First, not even close. The moa of the rifle used was 2-3, where both the m4 and m16 are about 1. It was a crappy rifle that sold as a very-budget rifle. It wouldn’t even qualify as “good enough”. Like the m16.

    Secondly, the ammo he was using was a lighter loading for target shooting and lower energy.

    As set up, it was at the edge of what crooks could be effective at (which is significantly lower than what he can hit at.) even if Crooks had the skill to make the shot. (Which he didn’t.)

  • permalink
  • fedilink
  • source
  • parent
  • [–] 1 point 4 months ago (1 child)

    his ear also never got shot, and he had blood on it somehow? where did it come from. hence the staging accusations.

  • permalink
  • fedilink
  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 2 child comments
    •
  • [–] 1 point 4 months ago (1 child)

    IIRC the consensus was the secret service agent tackle caused it. Not surprising for a frail old man to be scraped pretty easily. The pageantry with the gauze was to leverage the injury into a tough guy image instead of sad bruised geriatric.

    I don't really buy the staged conspiracy theories.

    • Secret service protection is reduced when you're not the president and would be spread thinnest during peak rally-season
    • Trump's polling was really, really bad at the time. The motive makes sense along with the demographics of the shooter (all these assassination attempts are from disillusioned groyper-types)
    • He looked confused/in shock during and afterwards and he's not a good enough actor to fake that
    • A person died from the shots, no chance live ammo would be allowed
    • In the weeks following Trump made very few appearances and rumors were describing ptsd symptoms. If it were staged you can be damn sure that blowhard would be putting on photo shoots every day
  • permalink
  • fedilink
  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 2 child comments
    •