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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I wonder how's life in the alternative timeline where he didn't move his head a couple of inches away.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

If Thomas Matthew Crooks had not decided to use a bottom of the line AR-15 with iron sights and splurged on a proper target rifle in a long-range caliber like .300 winchester magnum or 6.5mm Creedmoor and a decent scope. Along with match grade JHP boat tail ammunition, he wouldn't even NEED to know what ranges he is shooting. At the distance he was from Trump he would not have needed to adjust much for windage or bullet drop. He could have aimed for the chest and fired, and maybe even gotten a follow-up shot to the chest again (little chance in surviving that) and there would be no more Trump. The Secret Service sniper would still have blown Crooks's head off, but he would have died knowing he accomplished his goal.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

What makes you think I don't own any already?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

I don't own enough, sadly.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Not even a couple inches, he literally just picked his head a bit to the side, maybe an inch at most. That little chicken-head-jerk thing he does when he talked saved his life by like half a second. Just a guess, but I'm almost sure that at the moment the shooter pulled the trigger, the shot was lined up.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

jerk

and his wierd accordian hands he does when hes lying too.