Most people don’t want to deal with the consequences. The damage to their families, the possibility of being killed themselves either by the cops or death penalty, the lies about them the press and political opponents would make up about them, everyone has some skeletons they wouldn’t want revealed, and the fact they’d be silenced and have no way to make a real case for why they did what they did. At best a lifetime in prison because, even if you’re right, they’re gonna make an example of you because we can’t just have people killing presidents, y’know. I think also that they might realize that it’s probably cutting a head off the Hydra, some other PoS would just step up and continue the shitshow.
IOW you’d have to have someone with nothing to lose and the willingness to sacrifice themselves for such a deed, and the skills to pull it off.
Generally the kind of person willing to kill a president isn’t going to be sane, and if someone is sane and has the same idea they understand the price and aren’t going to want to do it. That, and things aren’t dire enough for a sane person to make the leap to do such a thing.
Americans will happily allow armed, masked men to violently kidnap people off the street in broad daylight and haven’t fired a single shot. I wouldn’t expect many of us to make the needed sacrifice.
masked men to violently kidnap people off the street in broad daylight
Context clues tell me they’re talking about ICE, not the assassination attempts. And if Americans are going to insist on sacrificing their children to school shooters in order to keep their precious guns, then yes they might as well put them to good use against ICE.
Call me a conspiracy theorist, but I think the bad aiming was an inside job. No way somebody can get so close to kill a President with modern day security.
John Oliver just did a story on just how overworked, poorly staffed, poorly disciplined and poorly paid the secret service is. It’s a wonder there haven’t been more close calls for the last several decades.
I’m British, but yeah. I could probably manage an attempt if I didn’t care about my kid. I guess that’s the nice thing about being from earlier generations, they mostly didn’t.
It can’t possibly be this hard to kill a president, What’s the holdup?
It’s been 63 years since the last presidential assassination, it’s not exactly a walk in the park to pull off
imagine a world where john hinckley jr didn’t fuck up
His and Jodie Foster’s kids would be adults by now
If only Crooks went for center mass…
That’s a rough one for me because either he was a patsy or the real deal is just that dumb these days.
I’ve wondered if he wasn’t but figured there’d be more drop.
Most people don’t want to deal with the consequences. The damage to their families, the possibility of being killed themselves either by the cops or death penalty, the lies about them the press and political opponents would make up about them, everyone has some skeletons they wouldn’t want revealed, and the fact they’d be silenced and have no way to make a real case for why they did what they did. At best a lifetime in prison because, even if you’re right, they’re gonna make an example of you because we can’t just have people killing presidents, y’know. I think also that they might realize that it’s probably cutting a head off the Hydra, some other PoS would just step up and continue the shitshow.
IOW you’d have to have someone with nothing to lose and the willingness to sacrifice themselves for such a deed, and the skills to pull it off.
Generally the kind of person willing to kill a president isn’t going to be sane, and if someone is sane and has the same idea they understand the price and aren’t going to want to do it. That, and things aren’t dire enough for a sane person to make the leap to do such a thing.
| don’t want to deal with the consequences
Americans will happily allow armed, masked men to violently kidnap people off the street in broad daylight and haven’t fired a single shot. I wouldn’t expect many of us to make the needed sacrifice.
You can’t really be saying “haven’t fired a single shot” in response to a thread on multiple failed assassination attempts.
Also about the only context I can think of where people are saying Americans don’t have enough gun violence.
Context clues tell me they’re talking about ICE, not the assassination attempts. And if Americans are going to insist on sacrificing their children to school shooters in order to keep their precious guns, then yes they might as well put them to good use against ICE.
You’re probably right, but it feels close some days.
Unfortunately, it is.
Ridiculous amounts of security precautions/pissing away government resources.
That and bad aiming, I guess 🤷🏻
Call me a conspiracy theorist, but I think the bad aiming was an inside job. No way somebody can get so close to kill a President with modern day security.
John Oliver just did a story on just how overworked, poorly staffed, poorly disciplined and poorly paid the secret service is. It’s a wonder there haven’t been more close calls for the last several decades.
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You’re always allowed to do it (well, “allowed”) what’s the hold up bucko?
Whatever excuse you give, I guarantee if we solved that you could find a few more excuses tucked away. Just like everyone else.
I’m British, but yeah. I could probably manage an attempt if I didn’t care about my kid. I guess that’s the nice thing about being from earlier generations, they mostly didn’t.