7.16.2024

Just a note about the shooting

I intend to avoid talking about politics as much as possible during this fraught summer, and about the recent assassination attempt entirely, except for this one note.

From the NY Post:

gunman Thomas Matthew Crooks, 20, was able to climb onto a roof about 130 yards from Trump’s location at a rally in Butler, Pa., before firing an AR-15-style rifle at the former president

First of all, calling it an "AR-15-style" rifle offers no useful information at all. Who cares what it looked like?

Secondly, the minimum marksmanship requirement for an Army recruit in basic training is to be 50% accurate with that rifle at a range of 300 yards.

Minimum.

From the rooftop in question, that was virtually a point blank shot. The rooftop should have been protected.

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