• Chana [none/use name]@hexbear.net
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    He got shot at a distance. There is literally no other information. wtf they mean, “professional sniper”?

    Loser on camera cited this logic:

    • One shot and he dead.
    • 200 meters.
    • They got away.

    All of which is compatible with it just being someone who has practiced with a long range rifle, like a .308 hunting rifle, which I bet includes a very large percentage of people in Utah. And someone who decided to not get caught. It’s not like it’s that difficult, just move fast, cover your face, and enter your vehicle away from cameras. Cops and security are incredibly incompetent, all they know how to do is shoot minorities and people in crisis and shit themselves when an acorn drops in their vicinity.

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      Yeah idk either - especially with this event receiving so much media attention locally. It’s not like he gets presidential level security, so it wouldn’t be the most difficult thing in the world for a shooter to scout locations, and then either alone or with accomplices, ditch the weapon, change clothes, ditch the scene, etc. Maybe a higher profile grifter would’ve had security secure locations with open sight lines to a reasonable distance; but Kirk basically made himself a sitting duck in a state with a shitton of hunters and open carry 🤷

      not to mention Kirk has an incredibly punchable face (assuming this translates to other actions) - so it literally may have been the first time the shooter ever heard of Kirk and it was a coincidence too.

      • ALoafOfBread@lemmy.ml
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        He also had an extremely tiny face, so the shooter may easily have hit the neck but been aiming for his head.