Posted on 06/19/2016 4:05:27 PM PDT by bobsunshine
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White kid tries to take cop's gun and doesn't get killed in the process.
Where does a scrawny 19 year old come up with the idea that he’s just gonna take the officer’s firearm and then hope to be successful with a shot at a presidential candidate? He even had some sort of distraction (asking for the autograph) planned out as well. I suspect somebody was encouraging him.
I wonder if there was someone waiting in the wings to take the shot from another angle, leaving this guy as the patsy with one bullet fired.
Well maybe not. This guy couldn’t reliably take a gun from my niece, let alone from a trained LEO. This looks like a genuinely amateur attempt.
But there are going to be more.
Maybe he was looking for his ten minutes of fame. It doesn’t make any sense but isn’t that the rule with crazy people. Anyway I hope I am wrong about anyone trying to hurt the Donald.
Yep.
Not so much crazy people, imo, but un-critical-thinking, social media-driven, repurcussion-free, pubic schooled lost millenials.
Or threatened to "out" him.
Your explanation works for me. Thanks
Yep, that’s the situation I fear most for Trump and the future of our nation, which seems to have possibly been attempted at this rally.
Followup...
He learned how to fire a gun... from whom?
British man who tried to assassinate Donald Trump is free, leaves country
The Oregonian ^ | May 5, 2017 | Douglas Perry
Thanks for that follow up. I hadn’t heard about his release.
Still... that’s one heck of a “psychotic episode” to for a 20 year old Brit guy(kid) to hop on a plane to the US, stop at some Vegas firing range for a crash course in firearms usage, then try to disarm an experienced LEO twice his size, from the front, by attempting to distract him by asking for his autograph....
I’m still not fully convinced this was just some random psychotic episode. I’d like to know the intimate details about this guy’s life in Britain.
Here’s the story about him supposedly learning to shoot:
“During a hearing last September, a court heard that Sandford entered the US illegally and drove from San Bernardino, California, to the Treasure Island Casino in Las Vegas to kill Mr Trump.
“Sandford allegedly took shooting lessons in the city the day before the rally. His lawyers said he suffered from mental illness and was in the middle of a psychotic episode at the time of the incident.”
~British man who tried to shoot Donald Trump returns to UK just five months into one-year sentence -Ben Kentish, UK Independent
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