Yes, an inexperienced shooter can hit a man sized target at 150 yards
I've said it before, and I'm sure I'll say it again: I always said it was a very possible shot. What gets my noggin joggin' is the claim that he was confronted second before the shot. No longer sighted in on target, massive adrenaline spike, yada yada. 150 yards itself isn't impressive, but the circumstances make it a bit weird.
It's not clear how many seconds passed before that. Nobody can seem to verify the time frame on it.
All we've got is one of the local PD ran up after someone pointed the guy out to them. They were not stationed in the building, none of the local PD was because the Secret Service told them that the building wasn't their jurisdiction; and these cops were on traffic duty. They responded to people yelling about a gunman by trying to go up to the roof and take a look to see if they could see the gunman. Instead of clambering up other objects to get onto the roof, one of the cops stood on the shoulders of another cop to look over the roof. The suspect allegedly noticed this, and pointed a gun at them, the cop ducked down and in so doing fell from the other cops shoulders, and sprained his ankle. His injury meant that he couldn't put any weight on it, and was one of the reasons they didn't go up to get him. There was apparently no ladder for them to get to, and the cops claim that the ladder seen in videos was NOT brought by the shooter, but by the SS after the shooting.
Even the ostensibly true parts of this story are fucking goofy.
Its truly amazing how torn I end up being after these events between how fake it feels through the comedy of errors or having to accept that this many people are just that fucking stupid and incompetent at the same time.
Notes:
I've said it before, and I'm sure I'll say it again: I always said it was a very possible shot. What gets my noggin joggin' is the claim that he was confronted second before the shot. No longer sighted in on target, massive adrenaline spike, yada yada. 150 yards itself isn't impressive, but the circumstances make it a bit weird.
It's not clear how many seconds passed before that. Nobody can seem to verify the time frame on it.
All we've got is one of the local PD ran up after someone pointed the guy out to them. They were not stationed in the building, none of the local PD was because the Secret Service told them that the building wasn't their jurisdiction; and these cops were on traffic duty. They responded to people yelling about a gunman by trying to go up to the roof and take a look to see if they could see the gunman. Instead of clambering up other objects to get onto the roof, one of the cops stood on the shoulders of another cop to look over the roof. The suspect allegedly noticed this, and pointed a gun at them, the cop ducked down and in so doing fell from the other cops shoulders, and sprained his ankle. His injury meant that he couldn't put any weight on it, and was one of the reasons they didn't go up to get him. There was apparently no ladder for them to get to, and the cops claim that the ladder seen in videos was NOT brought by the shooter, but by the SS after the shooting.
Even the ostensibly true parts of this story are fucking goofy.
Its truly amazing how torn I end up being after these events between how fake it feels through the comedy of errors or having to accept that this many people are just that fucking stupid and incompetent at the same time.
This is where I'm stuck. I cannot believe, even with DEI, that the USSS could be this incompetent.