Things that make you go Wow 😲

Like the Bob Marley song, No TV, no cry.

If @UtahJoe didn't tell me Trump got shot I would be reading this thread completely confused.
 
scott62 said:
I love the morons on tv talking about how the 147 yard shot was so easy. A head shot at that distance with an AR15 is no joke. .223 caliber gets blown around a lot over 100 yards. If the kid had used an AR10, I think the result would have been much different. This is one of the reasons the military is getting rid of the small rounds.
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Dude, a 150 yard shot with a .556 shooting anything over 69 grains is peanuts, fortunately that kid was a shit shot. With match ammo, decent glass, and a decent barrel a monkey should be able to shoot 2” groups at that distance. The wind doesn’t really start “blowing it around” until you’re over 300.
 
Captain Brainstorm said:
Dude, a 150 yard shot with a .556 shooting anything over 69 grains is peanuts, fortunately that kid was a shit shot. With match ammo, decent glass, and a decent barrel a monkey should be able to shoot 2” groups at that distance. The wind doesn’t really start “blowing it around” until you’re over 300.
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lol, 2 inch groups at 150 yards with a 16 inch barrel? We will just have to agree to disagree.
 
scott62 said:
lol, 2 inch groups at 150 yards with a 16 inch barrel? We will just have to agree to disagree.
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As a 50-year-old (give or take) sitting at home at one's desk, I imagine the shot is simple. As a 20-year-old kid climbing on the roof of a building with people yelling, as you are about to assassinate the former president, I am thinking things get a little harder.

But you know, the internet is the internet.
 
Norm said:
As a 50-year-old (give or take) sitting at home at one's desk, I imagine the shot is simple. As a 20-year-old kid climbing on the roof of a building with people yelling, as you are about to assassinate the former president, I am thinking things get a little harder.

But you know, the internet is the internet.
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This gets back to the whole good thing he wasn't a formally trained marksman thing, like say Oswald was.
 
Having shot an ar-15 many many times (my father had one) when I lived in utah....I had no problems hitting cans with iron sights at 100 yards when I was 14....This was a really easy shot....However, I completely agree with @Norm that the conditions most likely made it quite a bit harder.

And im also wow'd by the non stopped talk of divine intervention....especially since most of the people I have been hearing talk about it seem to be ignoring the glaring contradiction with that statement. But this is the media world we live in now.
 
The Secret Service Sniper made it look easy.
I imagine that most of those guys go through their entire careers never pulling the trigger in a real situation, or even know someone who has.
He must have been thinking to himself, "Is this really happening?!?!"
 
To me the biggest WOW factor in this whole thing is how blase we all are about this. I don't think it is a stretch to say that 80% of Americans care more that today is Amazon Prime day then they do about the former president almost getting shot.

Like this would have been a major, major historical event. And people are like, "Meh, he missed. Fucking loser," then went on scrolling their SM feeds.

Admittedly, I more or less paid no attention to it also. Actually it did help me make a decision. I have removed all the news outlets from my IG feed because I need to pretend the larger picture does not exist between now and the end of the year.
 
Norm said:
To me the biggest WOW factor in this whole thing is how blase we all are about this. I don't think it is a stretch to say that 80% of Americans care more that today is Amazon Prime day then they do about the former president almost getting shot.

Like this would have been a major, major historical event. And people are like, "Meh, he missed. Fucking loser," then went on scrolling their SM feeds.

Admittedly, I more or less paid no attention to it also. Actually it did help me make a decision. I have removed all the news outlets from my IG feed because I need to pretend the larger picture does not exist between now and the end of the year.
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1) It's sort of not interesting as he didn't kill Trump. The outcome isn't much different than if he was caught before he got to the event. But it's the media so it's the big thing to talk about as they beat the old-man-Biden thing to death prior to the shooting.
2) It's better to just ignore the high-end of politics than getting ulcers over it. Our personal impact on the president getting elected is so minor yet we stress over it. Meanwhile we have way more influence over local politics if we get involved and can actually make change.
 
So I have read in a few places that a cop had climbed the ladder and confronted the shooter....who then pointed the gun at him...the cop went back down the ladder then the shooter fired very soon after.....So if this is true, perhaps he realized that he had been located and it was either now or never and rushed his shot.

Oh and apparently this nut was on the roof for ~30min and they knew he was up there.
 
My only problem is that there are 333 million people in the US and 433 million guns don"t get me wrong I am a former duck and small game hunter.
When they shot President Reagan with an automatic weapon they were banned for 10 yrs. called the Brady Bill. Now a AR-15 is the weapon of choice for mass shootings'
That all I wanted to say........
 
John the Plumber said:
My only problem is that there are 333 million people in the US and 433 million guns don"t get me wrong I am a former duck and small game hunter.
When they shot President Reagan with an automatic weapon they were banned for 10 yrs. called the Brady Bill. Now a AR-15 is the weapon of choice for mass shootings'
That all I wanted to say........
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But he would have missed with a hand gun too.
 
John the Plumber said:
My only problem is that there are 333 million people in the US and 433 million guns don"t get me wrong I am a former duck and small game hunter.
When they shot President Reagan with an automatic weapon they were banned for 10 yrs. called the Brady Bill. Now a AR-15 is the weapon of choice for mass shootings'
That all I wanted to say........
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Hinckley used a crappy .22 caliber 6-shot German revolver when he attempted to assassinate President Reagan, not an automatic weapon.
 
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