Thomas Matthew Crooks did not do enough aim training.
From Wikipedia:
Crooks fired from a roof outside the rally venue using an AR-15–style semi-automatic rifle, firing eight rounds before being killed by a sniper from the Secret Service Counter Assault Team.
Dude had 8 fucking attempts. Thats almost too unbelievable.
Ok look without getting into the ethics of political violence that’s embarrassing.
I am a baby with rifles, having only shot like 200 rounds? but I thought it was a low calibre rifle from the sound in the video and thought “wow decent accuracy from a 22 at 100 meters!”. Like I struggle to land on the target at 50 with open sights.
But an assault rifle? really?
Anyway this post was about “he is dead” being an absurd thing to say in “what we know” don’t shoot into crowds kids. That’s not very nice.
Right, like he was never meant to kill trump.
Ok, the conspiracy shit is already old. 0% chance it was rigged.
I wouldn’t say 0% chance, but I agree that it is unhealthy to jump straight to conspiratorial thinking. Especially given just how little we know at this point.
You mean the party known for lying and falsification didn’t have an assassin plant meant to take the fall for the planned assassination attempt against the fascist presidential candidate in order to further bolster the support from his allies and voters?
There’s no way this wasn’t staged. And quite frankly, if the repubs are allowed to make up stuff, so is everyone else.
quite frankly, if the repubs are allowed to make up stuff, so is everyone else.
Log off. Please log off, you are doing significant brain damage to yourself.
also a registered republican!
But he donated to a pro Biden PAC!
$15 dollars.
What someone was registered as has no bearing on his leaning on the political spectrum. Only which primary he was allowed to vote in. I don’t under stand why people are so fast to try to say what party he is with. Either way you know he was anti trump, which is for all intense and purposes anti republican. Actions speak louder than words
Look, I’m all about avoiding unnecessary speculation, but being registered as a Republican is a very strong indicator of where they stand on the political spectrum. I don’t know why we are pretending that this isn’t fairly conclusive. It’s not like he changed party affiliation as a psyop, he’s been registered as a Republican for nearly three years.
I don’t know why he tried to kill Trump, but let’s not pretend that these details don’t matter.
Sadly, that doesn’t matter to them - at least from what I’ve seen, the predominating narrative among rightists and “centrists” is that he only registered Republican to sabotage/protest-vote in their primaries, and that therefore he’s actually far-left Antifa did it.
That makes me curious if there’s been studies on the typical percentage of people who register with a different party than the one they typically vote for. Especially comparing closed primary states (like Pennsylvania) to open primary states. Closed primaries clearly disincentivize registering independent but I could also see people believing it’s advantageous to cross-register, especially when your preferred party is incumbent or when in a state that consistently votes the opposite way as you.
I guess the sarcasm was not obvious.
I was mocking what will presumably be a Republican talking point as a 15 dollar donation is immensely inconsequential.
I agree with you that party registration is basically meaningless for a 20 year old who seems to have not even ever voted, nor has any as of yet evidenced strong political beliefs voiced privately or publicly.
As of right now, the shooter does not seem to have been very politically involved either way and is being portrayed as basically socially awkward and picked on in high school.
If the person had a long history of political involvement either way or had published a manifesto or something like that, that may be worth discussing, but so far there is nothing to indicate any kind of strong ideological motive, more along the lines of ‘troubled young adult has nothing to live for, decides to try and become famous and/or die trying.’
