Amazing they even let him take a shot before shooting him. If there's a guy on the roof with a rifle pointed at the president, all signs are pointing at he's gonna shoot him.

[–] booty@hexbear.net 38 points 5 months ago (6 children)

No kidding, I thought secret service guys were supposed to be hardcore or whatever. How the hell are they letting somebody point a gun at their charge from not even that far away? I'm not saying it's necessarily what should have been done, but if you asked me what I thought would happen in this scenario I'd have said he would have been turned into swiss cheese from like 10 angles the moment he lifted the sight to his eye

[–] randompasta 9 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Most likely the further out areas were covered by local law enforcement and the core around the former president was directly covered by the Secret Service.

[–] fox@hexbear.net 10 points 5 months ago (1 children)

There were two buildings in the area and USSS snipers were on the other one. They absolutely had line of sight

[–] randompasta 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

If they saw the guy in time. Which they didn't.

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