Breaking now, Trump shot at rally, reported conscious and alive
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What is it with people and using guns (which they obviously don't have much experience with) in assassination attempts? Weren't the IRA able to terrify every politician with bombs? Every shooter seems to fail (except for the Japanese guy a few years back).
I don't know, this seemed relatively competent so far. It's much too early to say for sure but, as far as attempted assassinations go, this one was actually pretty well executed. Literally an inch or two and it would have succeeded. Seems to be from a couple hundred yards out at least, too. And Trump did turn his head right as the shot that hit him was fired.
Speaking purely on competence, this was much stronger than our usual fare.
I didn't think about that. This is getting crazier by the minute, I wonder how the media will spin this as more information comes out.