tbf, Crooks wasn’t a trained assassin, and was shooting from 130m away
i loled
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finley@lemm.ee 3 months ago
BigBananaDealer@lemm.ee 3 months ago
i dont get this narrative. little to no experience and hes inches away from a killing headshot at that distance. thats fucking hard as hell to do
finley@lemm.ee 3 months ago
someone in another thread was like, “he had a scope!” and i’m like, “so? have you ever shot through a scope? it’s not like a video game where scope guarantees a headshot. it just makes it a bit easier.”
130m is really far, and an AR isn’t a sniper rifle anyway
Lightsong@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Should’ve used a magic bullet.
Simulation6@sopuli.xyz 3 months ago
I read in another thread that he may have hit a teleprompter and pieces from that caused the wound.
Jiggle_Physics@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Also, a local police officer was alerted to him. The cop then went up there, where he says Crooks pointed his rifle at him and he retreated to get help. So this added a bunch of stress and dramatically cut the time frame to take his shot. I think this may have played into the miss, assuming what the cop was reported saying, is what happened
Ilovethebomb@lemm.ee 3 months ago
That’s a massive fuckup if there was someone on the roof with a rifle, and that wasn’t communicated to the secret service.
finley@lemm.ee 3 months ago
i read another post that really pissed me off about the cops’ response. apparently, they saw him scoping out buildings with a rangefinder for a while beforehand, and watched him set up and take the shot without doing much to stop him.
VieuxQueb@lemmy.ca 3 months ago
He apparently was rejected from his shooting group due to inability to aim.
psycho_driver@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Uber bro going hard.
arin@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Getting fat tips
saltesc@lemmy.world 3 months ago
I thought he actually did quite well tbh. Unless he wasn’t aiming for a headshot…
Nutteman@lemmy.world 3 months ago
The man is all center mass and he went for the smallest target: trumps brain
III@lemmy.world 3 months ago
How dare you forget about Trump’s hands!
werefreeatlast@lemmy.world 3 months ago
His brain is about this size 🧠 inside with the rest being full of chaff and dog poop. So I mean, that’s pretty small.
TunaCowboy@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Horseshoes and hand grenades my friend.
Kusimulkku@lemm.ee 3 months ago
Funny but doubt that actually happened tbh
samus12345@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Maybe not, but what’s the point in falsely attributing it to someone else instead of just saying it yourself?
funkajunk@lemm.ee 3 months ago
Because if anybody gets mad at it, they have deniability
Kusimulkku@lemm.ee 3 months ago
Seems to be the way a lot of people tell jokes these days
some_random_nick@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Like most stuff on the internet.
MacNCheezus@lemmy.today 3 months ago
Yes, but they shot Tupac from a much closer distance.
Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 3 months ago
The onion just ran an article that stormtroopers were seen fleeing the rally afterwards.
4am@lemm.ee 3 months ago
Jack Black immediately canceled their collab plans /s
IronKrill@lemmy.ca 3 months ago
It was Hard Drive. :)