> If he’d have missed, he’d be endangering everyone down range. <
True that. But I still think taking a pot shot at rifle guy was the correct thing to do. In some situations there are no good options. You just pick the best of the bad options.
What a mess, regardless.
Not my area of expertise — and I certainly understand that “firing into the air” or “shoot to wound” are questionable tactics that can go badly ...
But if the SS sniper had fired a shot 10 feet away from the sniper, it seems like it would have accomplished 2 things:
1) Shaken up the sniper and dissuaded him from doing anything rash
2) Alerted the Secret Service on the stage who could have hustled Trump to safety.
My current position is that the poor performance shows that the FBI and Secret Service were actively involved in a plot to kill Trump. I’ll need really solid evidence to change my mind.