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Trump rally shooter Thomas Crooks was registered as a Republican (eu.usatoday.com)

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[–] evidences@lemmy.world 51 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

20 year old kid with no military training shooting at a 6 inch wide target at 400 feet with no scope and only iron sights. Honestly the fact the he grazed the ear says to me it wasn't that bad of a shot.

[–] oxomoxo@lemmy.world 9 points 2 months ago

I agree, Incompetence is very likely the reason. Just a lot of odd details in this whole thing…

[–] TheMightyCanuck@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Is the ear graze even confirmed? TMZ was reporting it was fragment of teleprompter that shattered, cutting his ear.

[–] evidences@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Interesting, that's the first I've heard this. I'll be interested to see if that gets confirmed. Though I just saw a photo of the secret service piling on top of him and there's two intact teleprompters astride the podium.

[–] TheMightyCanuck@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 month ago

Yeah that's why I can't say it with confidence, only that I had heard it alleged