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To: E. Pluribus Unum; All

On the roof about to commit murder and a day at the range are really different experiences.


16 posted on 09/14/2025 12:34:44 PM PDT by Jim Noble (Let it turn to something else, Matty)
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To: Jim Noble
On the roof about to commit murder and a day at the range are really different experiences.

You're right. He couldn't possibly have made the shot. It must have been someone on the grassy knoll.

25 posted on 09/14/2025 12:39:11 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (Je suis Charlie Kirk.)
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Exactly.


29 posted on 09/14/2025 12:45:30 PM PDT by No name given ( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as )
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I think that the real question is how much like a video game, it is.


38 posted on 09/14/2025 12:57:00 PM PDT by Empire_of_Liberty
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Yeah, the positions at the range often have a roof to keep the sun off the shooters.


41 posted on 09/14/2025 12:58:31 PM PDT by GingisK
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I wonder if his gaming had him looking through scopes at human targets.


69 posted on 09/14/2025 1:18:03 PM PDT by gundog (The ends justify the mean tweets. )
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Indeed. Just as I cited in my own comment somewhere in this thread…


73 posted on 09/14/2025 1:24:40 PM PDT by logi_cal869 (-cynicus the "concern troll" a/o 10/03/2018 "/!i!! &@$%&*(@ -')
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With a comment like that, you sound as though you’ve been on a roof about to commit murder before, and somehow, I don’t think that’s true about you.

Still…if you’ve practiced at something for a while, then I think some of those practices kick in.

Some people get excited from an adrenaline rush, and some people are terrified. Maybe this assassin got off on it. He seemed pretty proud of himself.


98 posted on 09/14/2025 1:51:40 PM PDT by FamiliarFace (I got my own way of livin' But everything gets done With a southern accent Where I come from. TPetty)
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[On the roof about to commit murder and a day at the range are really different experiences.]


As an army doctor, you presumably had to qualify with a pistol at routine intervals. A rifle is a completely different animal. A 50 foot shot with a 9mm from a standing position is hard. A 500 foot shot with a scoped rifle on a rest is easy.


114 posted on 09/14/2025 2:11:02 PM PDT by Zhang Fei (My dad had a Delta 88. That was a car. It was like driving your living room)
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