Questions mount over shooter's ability to access roof despite security presence
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Lawmakers express shock at apparent security lapses, while House speaker says chamber will conduct ‘full investigation’

The Federal Bureau of Investigation has identified 20-year-old Thomas Matthew Crooks from Bethel Park, Pennsylvania as the “subject involved” in the attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump, it said in a statement on Sunday.

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The political leanings of Crooks, who was shot dead by the Secret Service after the attempted assassination, were not immediately clear. Records show Crooks was registered as a Republican voter in Pennsylvania, but federal campaign finance reports also show he gave $15 to a progressive political action committee on 20 January 2021, the day President Joe Biden was sworn in to office. Officials have not publicly disclosed a possible motive.

  • dragontamer@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    4 months ago

    Local district attorney Richard Goldringer appeared on CNN and said one aspect of the attack that investigators were “going to have to figure out” was how the shooter managed to get close enough to aim a gun at Trump and fire repeatedly.

    Its like AR-15 rifles that have long accurate, repeatable shots, have made it easier to fire at people today than ever before.

    • shalafi@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      4 months ago

      We’ve had AR-15s since the 60s, yet you seem to think it’s a new thing? What’s new is the mass shootings, and they’re far more rare than most think.

      Anyhow, I have a few rifles, other than my AR, that would easily make that shot. Know why you hear about ARs all the time? Because the media hypes it.

      Quick! Remember the horrific shooting in Maine? What gun did he use? I had a hard time looking it up at first because the media wasn’t talking about it. Weird, huh? It was an AR-10, and few know what that is, doesn’t make a hot headline. (It’s basically an AR-15, as are many, many other rifles.)

      OTOH, I can’t think of any reason why our billionaire owned media would want us disarmed. Doesn’t make sense does it?