Whoever just tried to assassinate Trump pretty much just guaranteed his election victory.
The Beeb are doing a good job factual reporting. https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cd1d31jeyzlo
A security failure allowed a man with a rifle onto the building next to the stage. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cljy6yz1j6gt?post=asset%3A59e57ed7-c028-4616-9b54-92c855d42644#post
A security failure allowed too many guns in America.
Guns that have enabled countless murders and mass murders,
including many school kids.
Even toddlers have been killing people every week.
In 2021, the most recent year for which complete data is available, 48,830 people died from gun-related injuries in the U.S.
Collection of photos from last night’s Trump rally. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/resources/idt-ea3d3134-da3d-4a3b-8da0-e3be6537c04a
@GossiTheDog My advice: Strap in. We are in for a really rough ride.
@GossiTheDog It's been done before many times, it's been a whole theme of his followers which he encouraged since he was in office. Undoubtedly he'll be passing around more Christ-themed memes and goofy fan videos, engaging in "laying on of hands" rituals as he did in office, etc.
@GossiTheDog I'm pretty sure he already puts himself up there with Gods and angels, which is also a great way to turn the more genuine religious followers against him...well, let's see how that one works out!
@GossiTheDog Why am I expecting "Missed me, ner ner" and blowing a raspberry ?
@GossiTheDog he already has, but bitch ain't nothing more than a felon and a Nazi until we get to nail him to a crucifix.
@GossiTheDog I keep thinking the world is looking more and more like that depicted in #Millennium but where's Frank Black when we need him to expose the Millennium Group, "grew out of a millenniallist Christian sect, which eventually fused with a secret group founded within the Federal Bureau of Investigation"?
@GossiTheDog he’s been doing that all along.
@GossiTheDog he's supposed to be dead, but for reasons entirely unrelated to the shooting and entirely related to who he has been as a person his entire fucking life.
BBC have a break down of the security failings at the Trump rally. There’s a lot to unpack but there’s a series of major security failings documented.
@GossiTheDog Makes you wonder if these kinds of security details ever have red team tests against their set-ups.
Btw I’ve seen lots of people post that the shooting wasn’t real, was a crisis actor, was staged, conspiracy theories from 4chan etc.
That kinda thing has no basis in reality. Somebody died. Multiple people were injured. The local police left the shooter on the roof for two minutes while running around trying to work out what to do - they didn’t have a communication plan. Nobody had secured the roof before the event.
What happened is simple: a series of security failings, and a shooter.
@GossiTheDog What’s wild is this is the party of law and order, and sounds like they are bad at law and were very disorderly.
@GossiTheDog and people from the left that cry conspiracy are really not helping :/
@GossiTheDog What actually happened to Trump's ear? Some fragment of something cutting is seems much more plausible than a bullet grazing it so finely & near harmlessly.
There’s a good write up here on the law enforcement body cam videos of the Trump assassination attempt.
Long story short = security failure. Local police thought Secret Service were supposed to have secured the roof, Secret Service thought police had it, comms terrible, people didn’t know what to do etc.