JillyB

One of my friends is nonbinary but they looks super masculine. Deep voice, into powerlifting, etc. I introduced them and their girlfriend to my parents when they were in town. Later my mom was so confused. "How can someone be attracted to women if they're non-binary"? She has been a high school teacher for forever. She's had plenty of students that were trans or used different pronouns than she assumed. I was so surprised that this sort of thing would slip through the cracks.

I'm colorblind and I didn't realize there was a gradient.

Good job Spanish protesters and even politicians. This easily could have ended in the politicians blaming the protesters for cancelling an iconic event. Instead they amplified the protest by putting pressure on Israel.

I used to work for a Japanese manufacturing company that had plants all over north America. A lot of the Japanese people sent over were here to train Americans or support them in some way. It wouldn't surprise me if this person took the deal because that's what they were already going to do.

Dang

It's a dead link for me. But I'm guessing it's an attempt to avoid surveillance efforts

I'm having to sound out your comment like I'm learning to read again. Why do you type like this?

He wasn't moving. He was sitting there. 200 yards really isn't that big of a deal. Bullet drop is accounted for when you sight in the rifle at the range. Windage probably just isn't accounted for unless it's particularly windy. The lethality of the shot was probably luck. The shooter was probably aiming for the head or the chest, but definitely not the neck. Any deer hunter could hit this shot no problem. His "egress" was jumping off the roof and running away in the crowd.

I'm not saying he definitely wasn't some trained assassin. But you're making it sound like a routine shot for a hunter is proof that this was for sure a professional.

So it's a skinny white guy...not much to go off of in those pictures.

This is certainly a possibility. In general, it's tempting to fit political assassinations into national narratives when it actually needs to fit a personal narrative. Teddy Roosevelt's shooter thought the ghost of William McKinley told him to do it. Reagan's shooter was trying to impress an actress.

It could be family of a school shooting victim, like you said. It could be a Q-anon conspiracist who is mad Charlie is trying to sweep the Epstein files away. It could be a liberal trying to make a dramatic point about gun violence. It could be someone in Charlie's personal life that really didn't like him.

I would de-emphasize the "precision and professionalism" qualities of the shooting. Anybody with a decent hunting rifle and some practice can hit a 200 yard shot like that. It seems the shooter got away without a trace for now, but it might seem incredibly sloppy after some investigation is done and made public.

I used to work for a Japanese auto manufacturing company that had plants all over the world, including several in the US. We would frequently have Japanese engineers or executives on 2-week to multi-year assignments in US plants. Obviously they always had all the proper visas and whatnot. I have to imagine they are much more hesitant to send people over now.