It just keeps getting weirder
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I read the guy used an ar-15, any comment on the ammo type?
A standard nato round should be accurate to 400+ yards, which makes the shooter an awful shot and a poor choice of assassin if this was an organised hit.
There are certainly questions about the rooftop not being cover by snipers, but I don't see this being a professional (ds) hit. If they went for him like they did JFK then then Trump would almost certainly be dead.
When I watched the video last night, someone above and to the right of Trump (as we viewed it on TV) disappeared out of shot very quickly if it was a survival reaction. I've read since that the civilians who were shot were to the left of Trump as we viewed the scene, so it's hard to be sure.
We have numerous people in this thread stating that they knew witnesses to the event, people who have a seemingly genuine post history, then we would have all the various witnesses in the audience of the rally who would have to be in on it if it were staged.
I do risk analysis and troubleshooting for a living, and at the moment the balance of probability is that this was a genuine attack on Trump by an amateur.
The question of the SS failure however is a factor that has still to be accounted for in my analysis.
note: I have factored in the possibility that posters have been planted in this community for just this moment, assuming the event was staged. No offence to anyone, this is possible, but doesn't seem likely when taking all the potential eye witnesses into account at the scene.
I don't think the shooter was necessarily an amateur, but they definitely weren't a professional sniper. If the perp was aiming for roughly nose-height and center, they missed the follow-up shot (the first one missed completely) by a matter of inches, meaning that the #1 thing that fucked up the attempt was probably failure to account for wind.
I didn't use the term amateur to denote someone who couldn't shoot, I used it to describe someone who doesn't shoot for a living, i.e. who doesn't get paid to shoot.