• grue@lemmy.world
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    14 hours ago

    I mean, he could make a guess, but there was no way for him to know for sure the shooter wasn’t trying to target him. (Unless he had been told in advance.) If it were a genuine incident, then for all he knew, maybe the shooter intended to murder everybody in the room or something.

    Normal, sane people simply do not react the way he did in a situation like that.

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      14 hours ago

      Yeah, I’m in a room with Trump and I’m the target. Sure lol. We all know who the target is. He doesn’t have enough time and ammo for the whole class, his real target is getting away, he’s slow, if you hurry you can maybe catch up…

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        13 hours ago

        Assuming you’re not an insane idiot with a death wish, are you really gonna be doing all that logic in your head while somebody is actively shooting in your general direction? C’mon, now.

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          13 hours ago

          Was it in my general direction? It’s a big place, could very well not be in the backstop. How do I know the shot wasn’t a secret service agent neutralizing a threat, seems quiet now I guess they got him.

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            13 hours ago

            You could catch a stray from a SS agent returning fire almost as easily as you could from the shooter himself.

            The bottom line is, a reasonable person ducks. Only a clown or a troll doesn’t understand that.

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              12 hours ago

              One would think they’d be aiming in the direction the attacker is coming from, which since this isn’t amogus is “probably the other way.”