(07-15-2024, 09:43 AM)mikesez Wrote:

(07-15-2024, 09:19 AM)Sneakers Wrote: Possibly your least knowledgeable comment of all time, and I do not say that lightly.

You've obviously never fired a gun in your life.  How long do you think it took the bullet to travel 400' and what do you think the gunman's reaction would have been?

I have fired weapons many times, including automatic weapons. 

You're correct that bullets move faster than people, but the secret service literally and proudly says their job is to take bullets for the President or whomever they are protecting.  They needed their bodies in the way the very moment any of them though something was wrong.  I'm not saying they could have 100% prevented the shooter from striking Trump, but I am saying this is 100% one of the things they should have done.

Your bravado and confidence are completely misplaced and make me worry about you and people like you.

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(07-15-2024, 09:23 AM)flsprtsgod Wrote: He's actually almost kind of right in this case. It's clear that the threat was identified so they should've jumped on Trump and hustled him off stage AS they took down the shooter. He and Marty just can't make the connection in their minds as to why that didn't happen, why the principle was left out there in the wind for 30 seconds while the gunman took potshots at him from what should've been a restricted perch with a clear sightline. Everything about this says that the gunman was enabled to get those shots off, and only because of luck, fate, God, or whatever else reason he missed by 2 inches. I give the Deep State an A for effort and F for execution on this one.

I actually think you might be right.  There has to be more investigation of course, but this many levels of "mistakes" is suspicious to say the least.

They 1,000 [BLEEP] percent could have prevented Trump from being struck on Saturday. 1,000 [BLEEP] percent.

Due to [BLEEP] SOP's and all the damn time in the world, which you can see where I shared just how many people pointed out what was going on, how long he had up there to make that shot? They could have prevented this in more than one way. 

Period. It was a failed coup. The kid choked his shot in conjunction with Trump's usual mannerisms probably saving his life.

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