She needs to honor her late husband and just accept that some deaths may be necessary to keep the spirit of the 2nd amendment intact.

I hope she lives the rest of her life in fear.

Mysteriously, eye drops were found at her table.

Just tell her they were pyrotechnics. she loves pyrotechnics at public events.

call me an uncouth motherfucker. i got so excited for a few seconds the first headline I saw...now im just disappointedly doomscrolling

None of the liberals I know are doing this.

Political leaders will because they don't like the idea of one of their own being assissinated.

Get ready for a week of all the most insufferable liberals you know wringing their hands about how it’s SO UNCOUTH to be disappointed he didn’t bite it

Where do you see that?

CNN maybe, but they're owned by a far right oligarch, just like every other media corporation.

My guess, and this is a total guess, would be that if someone tried to go through metal detectors with a gun, and then it alarmed... my guess is all the shots that were heard would have been security turning that person into swiss cheese, before they got off a shot.

... If they were even going for their gun.

We don't have anything approaching that level of detail or info yet though.

People vastly overestimate their accuracy with a firearm. I want to say military doctrines/history generally show 100-300 meters as "the sweet spot" for a military rifle... with independent studies tending to put that at closer to 10-30 for an individual. Optics CAN help that (it stops being "line up your sight picture" and instead "pull the trigger when the dot is on the thing you want to kill") except that... most people don't have the time or resources to actually zero those properly. And this gets even worse for pistols.

This is why the vast majority (to the point I would almost say "all") of political assassinations are either a full on military hit squad... or a lone gunman at point blank range. Lincoln, Reagan, Abe, even the dude what looked vaguely like Luigi. Which... there are a LOT of reasons people are so suspicious of the murder of JFK to this very day.

that distraction was done to death, like he has his grocery store, mcdonalds, his garbage truck gaffes. and hes constant falling asleep like a child would when the parents confront them about a problem they caused isnt working anymore. even bringing out rfk jr and JD VANCE out of the woodwork dint help.

That was my first reaction too. I usually try to stop myself from falling into conspiracy thinking, but in this case it's hard to do when a few days prior the Internet has been full with an alleged memo with plans to stage something dramatic for the press at this specific event.

Can't rule out a real attack but at this point I wouldn't exactly say it's the option with the highest probability for this government filled with tv personalities at record low popularity...

It's easy to have the highest number of attempted assassinations when you repeatedly stage them.

Hehe, there's a reason I went with the BBC.

finger guns, winks

No wait!

is shot and then tackled by Secret Service

I mean, Trump has had the National Guard patrolling DC for... months now? Since his 'military parade'. That never actually stopped.

But uh... yeah, nationwide martial law?

Who fucking knows, why not.

Pretty sure this would be more like attempt 6.

EDIT:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_presidential_assassination_attempts_and_plots?wprov=sfla1

Fuck, way more than 6.

Basically everywhere every President has ever been in at least the last ~30 years, they're shadowed by the suited Secret Service, the obvious, visual security, and a or multiple tactical response teams, essentially SWAT teams, just in case something like this happens.

They were in fact hiding behind the scenes, ready to jump into action if needed.

That's actually just normal Presidential security detail, what isn't normal is when the President is moving about or planning public appearances so suddenly that there isn't enough time to properly draft up a security plan and get people in place.

Thats a big part of why the Butler Penn Ear Zinger ended up happening:

Firstly, Trump wasn't the President, so, less assigned security importance.

Secondly, the Trump Campaign has a history of stiffing the bill and not actually properly paying venues that he appears at, so a lot of event venues refuse to work with him.

Thirdly, Trump Campaign events are often announced and planned last minute, not enough time to actually draft up and implement a proper security plan, partially because of thing 2.

Finally, its well documented that the security coordination at Butler was a shit show. You had Secret Service, and a variety of local and regional police outfits, half of them didn't know who was supposed to be where, doing what.