Pretty easy shot. We were shooting large glow sticks at about 90m out using a scoped 303 resting on a little bean bag.There was someone else interviewed, might have been the same guy, who said he was a bad shot and didn't make the 'shooting team' or some such. Didn't seem too bad a shot, nearly got Trump (assuming he was aiming at him)
He had a few more variables and things to worry about than you did. Not to mention it was almost double that distance. And knowing you are almost guaranteed to get killed after you pull the trigger.
I guess so. The big screen was probably made in China.
I'm not a great shot and a glow stick is maybe a couple of cm wide. It was an easy shot.
You call someone who possibly spends hours each day gaming, and chatting online via private messaging in the gaming apps with the other players, or in game related discord channels or discord private messaging as having no online prescence?
There was someone else interviewed, might have been the same guy, who said he was a bad shot and didn't make the 'shooting team' or some such. Didn't seem too bad a shot, nearly got Trump (assuming he was aiming at him)
You reckon one of his bullies might have been there? Would be much easier to shoot anybody else when they weren't at a Drumpf really.
That is not an easy shot if you’ve ever shot a gun as a beginner. If he’s very experienced (which I think he is) then it’s moderate shot. The hard part is if the target moves. He was looking at the crowd and turned to the right. He was shot on his right ear. There was a high chance of the bullet hitting his brain if he did not turn.
Yes. When they say online presence, they dont mean gaming and watching pr0n. Its the FBI and medias words. They mean, no fakebook, no instagram, pretty sure no twitter as well but dont quote me on that one, no chat rooms other than chatting about games on discord.
Easy to just watch this vid in the below NBC news article.
www.nbcnews.com
According to the NY Post, a watch post for local police snipers (not SS snipers) to scan for threats.
nypost.com
They were so incompetent, I can imagine they were inside the building with binoculars, saying we cant see this guy anywhere, while he is on the roof above them.According to the NY Post, a watch post for local police snipers (not SS snipers) to scan for threats.
Shoulder climbing? OMG
Maybe the snipers on the other roof were told that Police were trying to get on the roof crooks was on, and were just double checking to make sure that the bloke they had in their sights was not these Police supposedly going up onto the roof, or were hoping that some other counter snipers nearby would take Crooks out, so they didn't have to.
Not even a long selfie stick to survey the roof.
Or security cameras on the roof if they couldn't be arsed stationing someone up there.
Maybe afraid of heights.
Not sure whether 'local police' = State Police, Butler Police, or both.
'A local police counter-sniper team was stationed inside the building where attempted assassin Thomas Crooks climbed on the roof and fired on Donald Trump, law enforcement sources told The Post.Exclusive | Local counter-sniper team was inside building where Trump shooter climbed on the roof and opened fire: sources
Crooks was able to scale the building unchallenged before firing off eight shots with an AR-style assault rifle, grazing Trump in the ear, killing one Trump supporter and wounding two others.
The building — the AGR International Inc. factory in Butler, Pennsylvania — was being used by local police as a “watch post” for snipers to scan for threats as the former president spoke onstage only 130 yards away, according to sources.'
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An officer from the Butler Township Police climbed on a fellow officer’s shoulders to check out the roof of the building moments before the shooting — but backed away after Crooks pointed his rifle at him.
The Secret Service can't/shouldn't ever outsource oversight of the State & Local Police assisting them protect ex-Presidents, campaigning wannabee Presidents, and event goers/workers.
Easy to just watch this vid in the below NBC news article.
Maybe Crooks intended to try and get into the event area, and ended up on the roof after not seeing anyone guarding it or on it, and thinking it would be a place to hide from Police/SS having possibly noticed that he had drawn attention to himself outside the venue.
Police warned Secret Service of a suspicious person at Trump rally before gunman opened fire, source says
The revelation raises questions about whether other measures could have been taken to stop the 20-year-old gunman before he fired at the former president.'Police warned Secret Service of a suspicious person at Trump rally before gunman opened fire, source says
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local police officers notified the former president’s Secret Service detail that they were looking for a suspicious person in the area, a U.S. official told NBC News.
The suspicious person, later identified as Thomas Crooks, 20, was first flagged to local police officers by rallygoers on their way into the event. The attendees reported they saw Crooks pacing and behaving strangely near the magnetometers, four officials told NBC News.
Local police officers began pursuing Crooks on foot, the officials said. During the pursuit, the U.S. official said, local police told the Secret Service they were looking for a suspicious person near the event.
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Two former Secret Service agents said the agency could have deployed plainclothes countersurveillance agents to stop the gunman.
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at least half a dozen people who attended the rally were pointing to the gunman while he was on the roof getting in position to shoot, trying to alert law enforcement and fellow rallygoers of the imminent danger.
The gunman was crouched on the roof for at least two minutes before Trump was struck, according to an NBC News review of video clips.
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It is not clear what time the Secret Service was notified and whether it was before Trump took the stage
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It does make you wonder if there was an element of "eh, stuff it".
From what ive read, the SS contingent was grossly understaffed and the republicans asked for more but were denied by that female that runs it.
