exchanged gunfire
makes it sound like little gift envelopes. "I showed u my calibre please return fire"
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It’s reminiscent of headlines about Israeli missiles “finding their way into refugee camps” and other such euphemisms
the phrase that lives in my head is "kidnapped from his tank"
exchanged gunfire
makes it sound like little gift envelopes. "I showed u my calibre please return fire"
Comrade, take my ammo! :soviet-chad:
:nyet:
No Comrade! Take mine! :left-unity-4:
Us Americans love guns but none of us can shoot straight it seems
Well except the guy who ventilated Charlie Kirk
*Allegedly
Counting or not counting Charlie Kirk?
Necks do, indeed, sometimes just do the weirdest shit.
Signed, a girl with medically dubious neck pain.
If we are Charlie Kirk, and if we carry his flame, what will happen to our necks..?
he died of high blood pressure
It was a terrible terrible accident
The bullet came from the camera!!1!1!1!1 /s
A juvenile bystander was hit by the suspect
I might get into polymarket betting on things like this, I would put down money that it will turn out the bystander was shot by SS.
The lack of detail also makes it sound like he was suspicious so they shot at him, it would be funny if he was just an average 2A guy, the sources say they witnessed a "visual print" of a firearm and suspicious behavior, and when they approached they allegedly exchanged fire. It would be unsurprising if one officer said he saw a gun so they just started blasting at the 'suspect' before he did anything.
These lone wolves fucking suck at lone wolfing
I guess the lone wolves only need to get lucky once? More proof that adventurism doesn't accomplish anything though. Imagine if all these cranks worked together how much more they would accomplish
Give me 20 men and [REDACTED]
SCP writers creating a new canon:
redaction is great, it means I don't have to be imaginative, my readers take that effort on 
The Expendables but it's a team-up of crank shooters, with a post-credits scene from:
spoiler
George H.W. Bush
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fiber optic drone without any signature and 1000 km sq of search area for a suspect vs i take gun i shoot gun at 10 m sq area, best shot was at 90000 m sq. american adventurers are not intellectual to put it mildly.
Has there been a homegrown assassination/attempt using drones? They've been used to kill people for decades now but has anyone tried to use one in a credible attempt to kill a politician/other vip?
Probably stretches the definition of homegrown but Ukrainian nazis tried to get an American Nazi teenager to kill Trump with a drone. He killed his parents first and then got caught on his way to pick up the drone though. Events in Ukraine has an article about it: https://eventsinukraine.substack.com/p/trump-assassin-part-i-the-misanthropic
Making a fiber optic drone is expensive, a lot of these cranks usually have guns lying around somewhere and it's easily accessible.
Plus making any kind of explosive is something that could go south real quick lol
It can't be that hard to learn. I hear that nobody ever makes the same mistake twice!
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Is a fiber optic drone going to work in a city? That fiber trail you're leaving behind could get broken by traffic or a random person.
it hangs between the buildings/trees, but it could definitely. mr trumpo appears in golf resorts and political rallies tho, white house is wrong place to try anything, cause it's a building anyway, in the most policed city in the world
Too much Law and Order
They think you can just shoot the president from five feet away and no one will notice because of all the walking and talking
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"There was no indication Vance was a target"
since when do cops do you favors downgrading potential motives when they could just call it an assassination attempt and lock them up forever
"oh yeah even we don't think that dickhead is important enough to kill"
Yea my first draft was "tell me they were white w/o saying "they're white""
"this keeps happening and we have no idea why!" 
I blame radical antifa cnn for being mean to Trump and Wolf Blitzer telling the audience how to make pipe bombs.
What if it was Wolf Blitzball and he was really, really into Tidus and Wakka from FFX
oh so the white house is a gun free zone? fucking liberals.
i may not support their guns BUT I SUPPORT A FREE EXCHANGE OF GUNFIRE! FREEDOM! 
just trading gunfire like pokemon cards 🎴
The Bluesky brigades have been activated.
Bluesky got shooters
What's even the point of the 2nd if you don't know how to use it
False flag
Radical centrism is serious business on United States of Epstein
Bets on what incoherent flavor of lib this one was?
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