Today has been quite a day, hasn't it?

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antolleus@reddit

They don't make presidential assassins like they used to

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papalorre@reddit

Ikr? Two out of three headshots on a moving target with a bolt action at 150 yards...

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HelloYouSuck@reddit

Yes but that guy was a CIA sharpshooter.

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ganzgpp1@reddit

Eh, anybody who goes to a range or hunts regularly could probably make a 150yrd shot pretty consistently. Especially with a scope, on a stationary target.

The wind might have been an issue, but even then you can measure and adjust for that (and wind really only has big impact on trajectory over long ranges).

You're straight dumb

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LosingAllYourDimples@reddit

The idea that Booth accepted he was a crappy shot is hilarious

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Annoy_ance@reddit

GAMRKNIGHT352@reddit

No matter what you believe about JFK, there was some fucking skill and talent on show with the job

The CIA only hires the best!

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Pope_Aesthetic@reddit

“And do any of you people know where these individuals learned how to shoot?”

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Beowulf33232@reddit

There was no skill.

JFKs head just did that on its own.

Teddy Roosevelt.

Former president that was running after a stint of not being president.

they could've put AOCs tits out

This photo will win Trump the election

The fact it's not all over the front page is honestly just lame as fuck, and that's coming from someone on the left side of politics. That is a pulitzer prize winning pair of photos and no one's posting them.

It's just poor sportsmanship. Have some fucking class in defeat ffs.

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Testing_things_out@reddit

The fact it's not all over the front page is honestly just lame

Ahh yes, a guy who runs a YouTube channel to educate about safe gun practices, who is a veterinarian who takes the proceeds from his multiple YouTube channels about guns, animal care, and his family, and uses them to care for and rehabilitate homeless animals

Bruhman1212@reddit

I can already see the headlines: 'Crazed Transgender Activist Samantha Hyde Attempts Assassination'

Tragic times😔

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StupidNSFW@reddit

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MagosRyza@reddit

I love how every time a terrorist attack happens anywhere from the Caucasus to California, some fucking brainlit has to trot out the whole "Muh Yookrainians!!11!" shtick

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StupidNSFW@reddit

That’s Sam Hyde, not some random Ukrainian that people are blaming lol

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MagosRyza@reddit

I probably should’ve been clearer then. Yes I do know that it’s Sam Hyde.

Just as a more general point though, it’s interesting seeing Russian state-affiliated media constantly having to pin every atrocity on the Ukrainians

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gr4vitycamilla@reddit

He can't keep getting away with it

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Hanabichu@reddit

Suspect has already been found: Thomas Matthew Crooks, 20, of Bethel Park, Pennsylvania,

Is a registered Republican Voter
But donated once 15usd in 2021 (yes he was underage then)

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Mesarthim1349@reddit

Maybe he was a politically-conflicted unstable youth who let his emotions get the best of him.

11freebird@reddit

It’s downvoted because it’s a leftist conspiracy theory and not a rightoid baseless one

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charcoallition@reddit

That's a lunatic take, man

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Maximillion322@reddit

Is it? This exact thing is what propelled Ronald Reagan to the presidency.

You don’t think it’s a little convenient for Trump to have this happen exactly like this at this particular time?

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This is a tinfoil moment from you

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Maximillion322@reddit

You’re right. I don’t really believe it wholeheartedly

I'll have to pull it out to recheck the charts, but Care and Harm were the two pillars with the most commonality, mostly because those two require the least empathy or socialization to understand (almost anyone can look and think "I don't think I should stab him").

Libertarians might have been Fairness instead of Harm, but it was a minor pillar to Freedom, by a huge margin.

Having looked at the study again, it was Fairness as their secondary pillar, and Freedom/Liberty as the primary, and literally NONE of the others.

The most amusing part of the study to me was that it showed Libertarians were excessively logic motivated and emotion and emotional arguments had NEGATIVE responses form them, which really fits the fact that Libertarianism also slightly correlated to autism. Emotions are confusing and therefore not a valid source of input, use logic, consistent rules will never lead you wrong (watches as the rules change halfway through a conversation) damnit I hate people.

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JessHorserage@reddit

There is also the speech haidt had in reason a touch back where libertarians had a lower disgust sensitivity than lefties.

ShortTheseNuts@reddit

Are you dumb? It literally went through him. This time it was in the ear, but as well as the ear didn't stop the "only a 22???" his other skin wouldn't have magically stopped a bullet either.

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cosmoscrazy@reddit

No.

The post was about wondering why the shooter didn't hurt him more despite hitting him. The very small amount of damage indicates that the caliber was rather small.

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ShortTheseNuts@reddit

The very small amount of damage to the person that got killed by the same bullet that went through his ear?

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cosmoscrazy@reddit

That's what I was wondering about. It either went through his ear without any more damage (small cal.) or the air pressure did the damage (big cal.).

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ganzgpp1@reddit

It would have killed him even if he was using a .22- if the shooter didn’t miss.

The shooter just grazed his ear, and then in the effort to finish the job before SS got him he fired 6 more shots, whiffing all of them before Trump even really reacted or ducked. It was only ~500 feet, too.

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EnchantedSpider@reddit

I mean range seems to be no matter, 2 months ago slovakias prime minister was shot at 6 times from 4 feet range, while did getting hit some the guy is already back in action just 2 months later so yeah, terrible assassins nowadays.

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Beowulf33232@reddit

I wouldn't trust him if he said the sky was blue, he's just that much of a liar that I'd want to double check.

However.

Bullet makes more sense, so until they release images of the broken glass and a diagram of how it happened, lets go with bullet.

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myteame@reddit

Thrownaway0331@reddit

all I can hear in my head now is Fight Club. "Ow. You hit me in the ear!! Why the ear?"

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Phenzo2198@reddit

gif

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LongEZE@reddit

That’s what I tell all the ladies 😎

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themustachemark@reddit

It's funnier because he was a Trump supporter and was wearing Demolition Ranch.

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SeliciousSedicious@reddit

We don’t know about the trump supporter angle yet.

Just that he was a registered republican.

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themustachemark@reddit

Lmao registered Republican wearing Demo Ranch equals Trumper

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Before moderators took the post down, there was a regard on WSB saying it was a fucking pellet gun. The post had 90 upvotes.

Truly wonderful, the mind of a child is.

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Foxehh3@reddit

Honestly it sounded extremely low caliber - like it could even be a fucking .22. Slightly shocked they killed someone with it.

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Alkanfel@reddit

Why?

The US military uses a 5.56mm round, which is basically a .223. They are plenty effective.

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Foxehh3@reddit

Because a .22 loses a ton of impact by range compared to other calibers and it was apparently a longrange and high ground shot.

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Alkanfel@reddit

Oh I see what you mean. If it's like .22lr plinking ammo or whatever, yeah. But when I read your comment last night I took it to mean you thought that any round with a comparable caliber would be barely lethal. Obviously a .223 is going to have a lot more powder in it than a .22lr. I'd be curious to learn what kind of rifle he was using, since both his and the return fire sounded pretty similar to my ears. Suffice it to say I doubt he was firing .22lr but who knows

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Foxehh3@reddit

No - any gun can kill given the right shot. It's just a single .22lr shot is much, much less likely to pierce anything severe.

With a larger caliber a shot literally anywhere on your head is likely to literally smash bones adjacent just by impact alone. A .22 has to hit an organ pretty directly - but it will absolutely kill you.

Turns out he used a 5.56 so you were literally right on the money. 3 inches to the left would have been a near instant-kill.

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ShortTheseNuts@reddit

You have never fired a gun outside of a videogame if you think it fucking matters. Or would you let me fire a 22 at you at 800m? You'll pick it in the air with your hands right?

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Foxehh3@reddit

I have fired so many fucking guns growing up so regularly it's actually unreasonably lmfao - and in my experience from a raised position at a decent range it's insanely hard to get a solid shot with a .22. The fact that someone died instantly and they managed to get a hit within 6 shots is pretty nutty.

Or would you let me fire a 22 at you at 800m? You'll pick it in the air with your hands right?

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rancidfart86@reddit

It’s not like the senile fuck is wrong though, you yankees are about to elect diet putin

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proud_NIMBY_98@reddit

Well hes pretty wrong with how this one turned out; a political opponent nearly being assassinated is pretty bad, thats the true threat to democracy

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Berkuts_Lance_Plus@reddit

I'm just shocked there haven't been more assassination attempts at Trump.

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SeliciousSedicious@reddit

I remember seeing some video once of some idiot in some shit wagon trying and failing to pull out of a ditch to ram into the beast.

with 6 bullets he missed a 50cm diameter target from 100m away.

what a clown indeed

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TeensyTrouble@reddit

he technically hit

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Demerlis@reddit

we sure trump didnt take a page from the wrestling and just cut himself while he was down?

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Massacheefa_@reddit

2 people died

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HatsuneM1ku@reddit

pregnancies

HelloYouSuck@reddit

He doesn’t give a shit about trans or gay people enough to eradicate them. Also Trans do a great job eradicating themselves.

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beckthecoolnerd@reddit

I wish that were true. But all you need do is look at the anti trans bills that have been proposed in the last year to know that republicans and trump very much do give a shit about trans people existing and would like to change that.

Why do you think trans people “eradicate themselves”? Perhaps because of people that tell them they are disgusting and wrong and broken and should die? Maybe because of people who refuse to give them the basic decency of using their real name or referring to them the way they should be referred to?

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BustedAnomaly@reddit

I must be a little out of the loop. When did he say he wants to exterminate a specific group of people?

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Hw literally said that Israel should just bomb the shit out of gaza

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WolfieTooting@reddit

Agreed.

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formershitpeasant@reddit

They might want him dead over the coup attempt

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Late_Emu@reddit

u/jesterflesh

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ZombieSazza@reddit

2 inches really are bigger than you think

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downvotedforwoman@reddit

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xXxImJusticexXx@reddit

And I thought Americans were better at aiming

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m8_is_me@reddit

It's been a while since an assassination/attempt

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Maximillion322@reddit

There’s supposed to be a curse where a president dies in office every 20 years. Trump was the first president in over 100 years to break that curse, as the timing would’ve lines up for him to die in office between 2016 and 2020

Perhaps the curse is just running a little late

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FrazzleFlib@reddit

After this, I doubt anyone else is gonna get the oppurtunity to try again for quite some time lmao

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“Violence has no place in America!”

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Taskforcem85@reddit

Correct, violence is only supposed to occur outside the empire.

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ToolkitSwiper@reddit

It's why god created the middle east, America's playground

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Mesarthim1349@reddit

"And then, God had said, "Behold, I have granted you a new DLC, with new regions to unlock and new tech to purchase. For I am the Lord, the merciful one".

Playful_Pollution846@reddit

Either Trump got Lucky as hell or the Shooter was shit

Maybe both

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Petrarch1603@reddit

pulled a Gordan Bombay

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HenryAlSirat@reddit

Yeah but one inch the other way and he would've missed entirely

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Ironborn137@reddit

You can tell the person who wrote this greentext is a Trump supporter because he didn't call them idiots.

Give it a few days, everyone will be saying it.

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MannicWaffle@reddit

get unalived

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