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These lone wolves fucking suck at lone wolfing
I guess the lone wolves only need to get lucky once? More proof that adventurism doesn't accomplish anything though. Imagine if all these cranks worked together how much more they would accomplish
Give me 20 men and [REDACTED]
My favorite Gambo Tones character
he just wanted a house and income
SCP writers creating a new canon:
redaction is great, it means I don't have to be imaginative, my readers take that effort onThis but unironically
This but
The Expendables but it's a team-up of crank shooters, with a post-credits scene from:
spoiler
George H.W. Bushif all these cranks wanted to organize they wouldn't be cranks in the first place
fiber optic drone without any signature and 1000 km sq of search area for a suspect vs i take gun i shoot gun at 10 m sq area, best shot was at 90000 m sq. american adventurers are not intellectual to put it mildly.
Has there been a homegrown assassination/attempt using drones? They've been used to kill people for decades now but has anyone tried to use one in a credible attempt to kill a politician/other vip?
Probably stretches the definition of homegrown but Ukrainian nazis tried to get an American Nazi teenager to kill Trump with a drone. He killed his parents first and then got caught on his way to pick up the drone though. Events in Ukraine has an article about it: https://eventsinukraine.substack.com/p/trump-assassin-part-i-the-misanthropic
Making a fiber optic drone is expensive, a lot of these cranks usually have guns lying around somewhere and it's easily accessible.
Plus making any kind of explosive is something that could go south real quick lol
It can't be that hard to learn. I hear that nobody ever makes the same mistake twice!
2k bucks is expensive but 500 bucks gun + getting shot at isn't? one needn't do explosives, those are illegal, flying a lead rod at 60 km/h is not (although optic fiber drones are slower to be fair)
You can't just roll down to your local bass pro and pick up explosives.
You can't realistically train with explosives. Or if you do it's a lot harder and more expensive.
and as i've said those are illegal, and how aspiring but not bright people get entrapped anyway and this is a christian forum. you tell me though, do you think getting 200 g lead rod to the dome at 40-60 km/h is good for health
^more^ ^to^ ^the^ ^point^ ^inside^ ^qatar^ ^airforce^ ^one^ ^during^ ^takeoff^
You've got to hit that pretty hard for it to go bang
I also think a lot of normies don't even know what a fiber optic drone is LOL
It amazes me no one has hooked up an AR-15 to a drone yet. They have such little recoil that it shouldn't impact flight stability much.
They're kind of heavy. You could probably strip a bunch of parts off, though.
the heaviness of the firearm relative to the bullet size is what makes the recoil low
Yeah but drones don't have 10 pound payloads easily
israel did iirc but that's quite a heap of r&d for our garden variety adventurists
Too much Law and Order
They think you can just shoot the president from five feet away and no one will notice because of all the walking and talking
Is a fiber optic drone going to work in a city? That fiber trail you're leaving behind could get broken by traffic or a random person.
it hangs between the buildings/trees, but it could definitely. mr trumpo appears in golf resorts and political rallies tho, white house is wrong place to try anything, cause it's a building anyway, in the most policed city in the world
Surely the secret service has a protocol for 'unidentified drone' in airspace? You'd see it coming a mile away.
will you? seems like common identification zone is round 100 meters, and they don't even paint them for sky colors