Posted on 12/11/2024 6:54:22 PM PST by dynachrome
In the wake of the second assassination attempt against Donald Trump that occurred on Sept. 15, a Secret Service agent who spotted the gunman and immediately fired at him was lauded for his quick reaction.
“The agent’s hyper-vigilance and the detail’s swift action was textbook,” Secret Service Acting Director Ronald Rowe said at a press conference later that week.
While Trump’s agent may have reacted swiftly, he may not have been the best aim. According to the House Task Force investigating the Trump assassination attempts, the agent was as close as five feet away from alleged gunman Ryan Routh, and he fired six times at the suspect—missing them all.
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But chief, I was trying to apply suppressive fire!
BTTT
Bump
Fired six times with the target 5 feet away and missed?
This is not a case of needing more range time, it’s a case of someone so nervous he couldn’t properly aim. It was not like at the range where a target can’t shoot back. A real life combat scenario is when the target does shoot back. If his target fired at him, he’d be dead.
This guy does not deserve praise, he needs to be fired.
Missed him by that much.
At five feet all one needs to do in point.
Provided the target was making some noise, I could hit it at five feet blind folded.
Lucky some cow out in a field nearby wasn’t killed.
It is coming to a point where I have little or nothing left to say. This entire nations seems to be swirling down the toilet.
Who the hell is Ryan Routh??
Deliberately missed.
Fired six times with the target 5 feet away and missed?
Okay I’ll ask, were the SIX misses intentional??
Although I used quotes it is actually a rough approximation from my memory about a conversation Beckwith had with president Carter about the Iran rescue mission as described in his book and that he repeated to me in person (but that was 40 years ago).
When president Carter asked Charlie Beckwith (Delta force creator) what his men would do if the Iranian guards resisted, Beckwith said his men would put 2 bullets between their eyes and Carter said something like “but if they are wounded” and Beckwith told him “I didn’t say my men would shoot them, I said they would put 2 bullets between their eyes”.
Nevermind...Sac
Adrenaline is a bitch.
““The agent’s hyper-vigilance and the detail’s swift action was textbook,” Secret Service Acting Director Ronald Rowe said “
However the actual firing of the weapon while simultaneously aiming at the (correct) target seems to be beyond this government employee.
The incident staggers the mind.
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I used to go to a gun range where the lights in the ceiling had been shot out. We were told by the owner that they were shot by the police who shot there. Also told that at gun competitions there were two lines - one for police and one for civilians. For the same reason. Another story he told was of taking the gun out of the holster of the town police chief and finding it rusted shut.
Unsurprising. Snap shooting at an armed opponent is different from range shooting. Paper targets don’t pose a threat to you. A cop fired 33 rounds at a suspect where the only cover was a car, hit him 14 times, of which only the last round, which entered the suspect’s brain, stopped the gunfight. Total duration? 56 seconds.
I thought I read on the day, or day after it happened, that the closest that anyone got to him was about a couple hundred yards.
At five feet I’d have to work hard to miss even intentionally.
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