(07-15-2024, 12:20 AM)Jaguarmeister Wrote:

(07-14-2024, 11:17 PM)mikesez Wrote: The article says they don't want to end up shooting a guy who just had a telescope or a camera.
This is the wrong thing to focus on.  SS has to guard events in all types of environments.
They can not allow the President (or the candidate) to enter an area with any question mark or uncertain expression, and if an unknown suspicious guy is discovered, they just have to get the man (or woman) out of there and figure out if it's a gun or a camera later.

Kids can get drones at the store for less than $50 that could have been very useful here.  It's a wonder there weren't several in the air that could have spotted him and ID'd the gun minutes earlier.  That poor family that lost a father might have been spared.

Drone surveillance will probably become standard protocol after this incident.  Sometimes the simplest measures are the most easily overlooked. 

The article suggesting uncertainty over the possibility that it was just a telescope or camera is ridiculous.  The counter snipers were at a distance of maybe 400', looking through their own scopes and binoculars, in open daylight.  There's no way the weapon could have been mistaken for anything else.

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