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I'd been thinking about this for a while before this even happened, and this just confirmed it. I don't think the secret service is necessarily that effective, it's just that nobody is even attempting in the first place. It would be one thing if lower politicians (senators, governors, etc) were getting shot up frequently but the president was uniquely safe, but that really isn't the case. Here we saw an actual assassination attempt on a former president, and the only thing that saved his life was the fact that the shooter happened to have the worst aim in all of rural America.
Just bc rednecks like guns doesnt mean theyre good at using them, theres a lot of wreckless idiots who think hitting bird shot on a target 10meters away makes them a badass
I love that Americans, collectively, regardless of our politics, are very mad at that kid for having bad aim.
I want to make some meme about Oswald being a commie and fucking nailing Kennedy while the Cross kid can't hit fucking Trump but I can't bring it together in my head.
it'd have to be very subdued to work
I like making it a marine joke to jab at the jarheads and their superiority complex of "being better riflemen than the army"
"The only marine who could hit a target was a communist"
A trot or had strong trot leanings*