Mr. Kirk, a close ally of President Trump, was shot while speaking at Utah Valley University. The authorities were still searching for the shooter, with no one in custody.

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[–] 24 points 10 months ago (1 child)

How is there not tons of images of the suspect not being pushed to public yet. There had to have been multiple security cameras on them at the time. Seems like they are waiting to find the "suspect" that will do the most damage to the left as possible.

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  • [–] 12 points 10 months ago (3 children)

    Because it was on a college campus and the shot came from over 200 yards away. That is a highly skilled marksmen.

    Have you ever had trouble accessing a building on a college campus?

    This was premeditated. Whoever pulled that trigger knew they were gonna have to blend in before being invisible before blending in again.

    Well probably know roughly what building and floor the shot came from sometime today. We'll find out it was a building anyone could get into and didn't have excellent surveillance, was under construction, or was otherwise vacant.

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  • [–] 7 points 10 months ago

    university/college campus buildings are notoriously easy to get into. Doors unlocked pretty much 24 hours, Libraries open late, etc. I mean hell I'd still go to my University library and student lounge areas well after I graduated late at night to do work because the wifi was excellent and...no one bothered you. One night I even passed out and fell asleep in the lounge and no one woke me up. Plus Campus Police are like a middle ground between security guards and actual cops.

    So a dude rolling in to one of the buildings from like 200+ yards away to set up a shot with a rifle doesn't surprise me at all. It was a pretty good shot too if you saw the video so they had time. Probably had a decent amount of time to slip out also.

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  • [–] -5 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    Is 200 yards skilled?

    This is America, so I'm assuming y'all have better marksmen than me and that's not even a moving target. That's sub 200m shot, if you've got a stable firing position that's really not that bad.

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  • [+] 5 points 10 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (2 children)
  • [–] 0 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

    Literally every veteran could make that shot with iron sights. We had to qualify on 200 yard targets. With a scope, you could probably include every hunter in the US as well. 200 yards isn't a long shot.

    Oh yeah, and every single Girlscout or Bouscout that has their archery badge, or their shooting badge, not marksman that's a different badge, would be able to make that shot.

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