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Pretty sure this would be more like attempt 6.

EDIT:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_presidential_assassination_attempts_and_plots?wprov=sfla1

Fuck, way more than 6.

Basically everywhere every President has ever been in at least the last ~30 years, they're shadowed by the suited Secret Service, the obvious, visual security, and a or multiple tactical response teams, essentially SWAT teams, just in case something like this happens.

They were in fact hiding behind the scenes, ready to jump into action if needed.

That's actually just normal Presidential security detail, what isn't normal is when the President is moving about or planning public appearances so suddenly that there isn't enough time to properly draft up a security plan and get people in place.

Thats a big part of why the Butler Penn Ear Zinger ended up happening:

Firstly, Trump wasn't the President, so, less assigned security importance.

Secondly, the Trump Campaign has a history of stiffing the bill and not actually properly paying venues that he appears at, so a lot of event venues refuse to work with him.

Thirdly, Trump Campaign events are often announced and planned last minute, not enough time to actually draft up and implement a proper security plan, partially because of thing 2.

Finally, its well documented that the security coordination at Butler was a shit show. You had Secret Service, and a variety of local and regional police outfits, half of them didn't know who was supposed to be where, doing what.

She needs to honor her late husband and just accept that some deaths may be necessary to keep the spirit of the 2nd amendment intact.

Mysteriously, eye drops were found at her table.

I hope she lives the rest of her life in fear.

It's easy to have the highest number of attempted assassinations when you repeatedly stage them.

*ballroom = bunker

The right has NORMALIZED political violence and blare out the pacifist bullshit to make it look unacceptable for anyone not them to do it. Protest and picket lines mean nothing if violence isn't considered a step in the chain somewhere. The GQP have shown us this by demanding special protest zones around their events so people can't just rush in or be heard.

Seeing as I don't appear to have any Canadian ancestry...

Will do marriage for Canadian visa.

Am bi, not terribly picky, mostly just introverted.

call me an uncouth motherfucker. i got so excited for a few seconds the first headline I saw...now im just disappointedly doomscrolling

My guess, and this is a total guess, would be that if someone tried to go through metal detectors with a gun, and then it alarmed... my guess is all the shots that were heard would have been security turning that person into swiss cheese, before they got off a shot.

... If they were even going for their gun.

We don't have anything approaching that level of detail or info yet though.

That was my first reaction too. I usually try to stop myself from falling into conspiracy thinking, but in this case it's hard to do when a few days prior the Internet has been full with an alleged memo with plans to stage something dramatic for the press at this specific event.

Can't rule out a real attack but at this point I wouldn't exactly say it's the option with the highest probability for this government filled with tv personalities at record low popularity...