Yes, but we are not talking about shooting a clay pigeon here, we are talking about an automobile with a human driver that can change speed, direction, make turns, etc. If you wanted to kill someone in a vehicle traveling at a high rate of speed, finding a shooter skilled enough with a 1911 to hit the car, then positioning them somewhere the car might pass by and hoping he does so you can get the shot, is not really a great plan. If I were at that planning meeting and that was suggested, I would laugh at the idea.
I mean, we have history to judge by here, to some extent. There are plenty of known cases where intelligence agencies, or other government agents, planned to assassinate people inconspicuously. Never in my life have I ever heard of them resorting to a plan like that. It might be possible, in theory, but it wouldn’t be desirable, because too many things could go wrong.
First, the guy might take a different route of travel. Plan is blown because your shooter is sitting on the ground with his pud in his hand.
Next, say the guy does drive by, anyone can witness you shooting at his car. Plan is blown because now you have witnesses to your assassination attempt.
Next, say you hit his car and nobody sees it, the car crashes, and doesn’t burst into flames. Plan is blown because you have left bullet holes in the car, a bullet in the body, etc.
Anybody planning a serious assassination would look at all the contingencies like that, so they would never pick such a plan that is prone to go wrong. In fact, the only conceivable reason to try and kill him while he is in the car is to make it look like an accident, and shooting at the car is completely counter to that goal. If you are going to shoot him, you’d just do it before he gets in the car, or after he gets out of the car. Doing it while he’s driving is self-defeating.
How might you explain Mr. Hasting’s remains were cremated even after the family had registered that they intended to inter him with their own funeral home into a family plot?
No. This had all the marks of being an emergency op, with a fleeing victim.
They knew where he was going, and at what speed. Nothing fancy.
The only difficult part was the precise double hit, driver and tank. And there were variables making that even less difficult.
As for shooting humans: the democrats have had professional assassins, picked/volunteers from US Special Forces, at least since Clinton.