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Man hiding in bush at Donald Trump's golf course with ~~AK-47~~ rifle is a nothing burger? Idk how to make customers happy these days ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
edit: people are saying it wasn't an AK
Just lawful demonstration of one's second amendment rights amiright?
I dont see the problem. Plausible deniabillity's a double-edged bitch
"It's OK guys, he was trying to go to a library and got the address wrong"
It happens
I guess so, other than his manifesto saying he wants to kill Trump and showing up at the same place and time. I don't think I'd wanna be ak-bush-guy in court
edit: are AK's even legal to carry around? I don't know if FL has open carry
There's an old law in FL, I know it's in TX; probably in FL, attempt an assassination once... you're a fool...attempt twice, you can't attempt again.
Shame on... You
If I am not mistaken FL has one of those statutes that permits Open Carry only while lawfully engaged in fishing/hunting/camping.
In some states it is legal to open carry a rifle on a sling in public. Pointing it at/across a public street from a semi-concealed position, as the suspect was, isn't legal in almost any situation, in any state.
It was a golf course, not a street.
The reporting placed the gunmans position across the street from the golf course, so yes you're correct, but only in a semantic sense.
It's an SKS not an AK
I think there's a YouTube channel called the armed fisherman whose deal is to carry an AK as he goes "fishing" because that is allowed. I've only seen a couple of vids, so my details are probably wrong.
What a time to be alive
"Thoughts and prayers"
I have so many thoughts and prayers... how has it not been acknowledged & helped?
I think it's rather more that it's painfully clear to anyone with a functioning brain that Donald Trump and his campaign is once again trying to manipulatively present himself as in more danger than he actually is and falsely blaming Democrats for violent vitriol. Donald Trump is firmly the one producing all the violent rhetoric in this campaign. The worst the Democrats have done is imply that JD Vance fucked a couch, and when they did, it was clearly in jest and not serious. Yet he turns it around and blames it on the Harris campaign immediately.
So, let's go over. What makes this a nothingburger compared to what Trump makes it out to be:
This guy who they caught with the guns previously voted for Trump, and had also previously supported Vivek, after he was disillusioned with Trump. He's clearly not well, but he's also clearly not a true and blue progressive who was pushed to violence by evil Democrats being mean to Donald Trump.
Trump was never actually in any serious danger, probably because due to the previous massive fuckup the Secret Service is probably actually doing their job this time around. Since he was never in actual serious danger, because they were doing their job, it's as much of a nothingburger as the number of times that such a thing has happened to sitting Presidents. It doesn't blow up the news because it's stupid when they've already failed.
If Kamala was at this golf course would you be singing a different tune? I have zero doubt they're going to get whatever mileage they can out of this, but idk how we can pretend this is "nothing".
Also, I'm positive a person intending to kill a (former) president being arrested 600yds away from their target is newsworthy.
I think Trump is reaping what he's sown too, but I can't pretend it's remotely close to "nothing"
edit: Im literally just saying this news story is newsworthy y'all. surprisingly controversial
No gotcha... just a legitimate question I asked you and myself. I ponder these things. I can see you are having trouble playing nice though which is unfortunate
The media calling it an "attempt" is just clickbait. At best this is a "possible assassination plan." And something similar happened to Gretchin Whitmer... it turned out to be an FBI entrapment scheme
Does he have to fire his weapon for it to be an attempt? Wheres the line? The FBI is calling it an attempt. I suppose we'll see if this is entrapment too. Until then, this kinda looks like an assassination attempt
To be completely fair here: the reports are all saying that Trump's location that day was not public information. So either this guy got real lucky to show up on a day Trump was playing golf, or else he had some information that very few other people had. Okay, granted, Trump plays golf a lot, so it could just be a coincidence. Still, it would be kind of ironic if it turned out someone in his own campaign was leaking info to the crazies.
like, 50/50 chance
SKS, but close enough I guess.
Where did they confirm the rifle? Initial reporting was an AK-47 and a scope, then I heard AR type (whatever that means). I was dubious on an actual AK (not AKM or 74), and am very surprised on an sks. This guy was gonna make a 4-500 yard shot with an SKS??? And it must have been a modified or later paratrooper model, because I don't think they had scope mounts on regular SKS, not even the side mount bracket. It has been so long since I had my "Big 5 sports" $99 SKS, but I don't think I could hit a head shot at 400 yards with 7.62 on my best day.
Cops shared a scene photo in case you haven’t come across it yet. Don’t know if there is a higher quality version.
This is for sure not an AK (awful idea to try to mount a scope on those anyway) but also definitely isn’t an sks. This looks like something like a remington with an extended box mag? But the media needs to attach it to boogeymen like cold war bad guys or rap music so I guess we can just call it an AK for now
Also, how are we taking pictures like this in 2024? Did the police bring a camcorder from the 2000s from home to snap this picture??
abc nightly news
Ah - I had read reporting saying AK
https://imgur.com/journalists-guide-to-firearms-identification-ueu7x5T
How could someone convince themselves that this isnt concerning or news? Why dont people want truth?
I really don't know. I think it's more people are glad he's feeling the violence he put out into the world and because guns are so free and loose. To me it's still quite a big deal, having not really lived through any assassinations in my life 😅
Yeah but glad is a feeling you have, not something that makes you try to create a narrative or change reality. Its concerning. Please fix everyone naught.
I'm!! Trying!!