If you know just a bit of how security details work, shooting, and stuff, you will conclude that the simplest and most likely answer is that, yes, it was a semi-random guy -- who got the assistance of a three letter agency. THAT is.

A random amateur simply does not get to carry a rifle and take a vantage point barely 100 yards away from a presidential target surrounded by secret service without help/assistance/someone looking the other way and making sure that nobody looks either. The probability of that would be ZERO.

Plus, to begin with, the "deranged shooter" myth has been debunked way too many times now. There are deranged people who would like to shoot other people, indeed. Taking the final step of making the decision, making the plan, organizing it... for that, more than one has been known to need a "nudge" by an "interested party", if not outright brainwashed and put up for it by them directly.

If someone got scraped on the ear by a bullet, wouldn’t a bit of the ear be missing?

I’ve never tried to shoot someone’s ear off so don’t know.

If someone got scraped on the ear by a bullet, wouldn’t a bit of the ear be missing?

I’ve never tried to shoot someone’s ear off so don’t know.

I grew up in the Australian country hunting and fishing and small scale farming. I’m probably part of 1-2% who could live self-sustainably off the land in Australia.

Do I want to hide and live isolated living off rabbits and roos and lizards and birds and shitty vegetable crops in a wood shack with no contact to the outside world? No.

Would my missus join me? No, she’s a city girl and wouldn’t make it.

If we’re talking WWIII and Australia is invaded and I don’t have time to leave and just need to go survive well yeah I’ll last longer than most and could probably keep her alive.

But I have no intention of living that life and I reckon you could count on one hand the number of people who will read this article, grok it, and be willing to go bush whilst it plays out to make your statement true.

Things can be incredibly simple or incredibly complex...

Nobody knows anything save those involved.

It really takes a specially severe case of Trump Derangement Syndrome to believe that a guy who has absolutely all the three letter agencies, the government, the media, half the country against him, could ever possibly even dream of staging a fake assassination as a PR stunt to pump his numbers after his best two weeks since he won the 2016 election.

Really severe case of the retards, something clinically irrecoverable.

Though you'd be surprised how many are.

Heh, that's why you get a boat instead of being the group running out west. 😂

I grew up in the Australian country hunting and fishing and small scale farming. I’m probably part of 1-2% who could live self-sustainably off the land in Australia.

Do I want to hide and live isolated living off rabbits and roos and lizards and birds and shitty vegetable crops in a wood shack with no contact to the outside world? No.

Would my missus join me? No, she’s a city girl and wouldn’t make it.

If we’re talking WWIII and Australia is invaded and I don’t have time to leave and just need to go survive well yeah I’ll last longer than most and could probably keep her alive.

But I have no intention of living that life and I reckon you could count on one hand the number of people who will read this article, grok it, and be willing to go bush whilst it plays out to make your statement true.

Why do you think in the dystopian movies they are always trying to contain everyone in some shithole city / district & dissuade anyone from venturing into "the badlands" / "wilds".

More infrastructure = more dipshits, more dipshits = more slavery...

BS, there are plenty of spots to "hide" in the bigger states. 😂

But if you want infrastructure then you don't get it. 😂

Your assumption is that they are just average people & not fighters... Might want to notice who is not in evidence.

None that I’m particularly are of but then it depends what scale you put on mass?

If it’s people going through some sort of nation’s immigration system then the violence tends to be localised/individualised.

I’m not talking about military invasions, just normal movements of people, people travelling to work etc.

Working on it.

Bro why do you not have a linked wallet I was gonna zap this but can't.

Different situations dictate different responses.

What is the other option that an individual may be inclined toward (if not violence or peace)?

Who told you that was my position?