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Former classmate of Trump rally gunman says he was ‘bullied almost every day’ from NBC News : r/interestingasfuck

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I got the feeling that if this guy didn’t try to shoot Trump, he would have shot up a school or a concert. Yeah, everything has pointed to a minimally experienced fringe "revenge against the world" type. Weapon of convenience (family AR), on-paper wacky plan, amateur technique, no apparent ideological ties, outcast. The wild thing is it "worked" within a margin of error. All of this news is more and more damning for the Secret Service. An angry kid, with no training and a half-assed plan, was allowed to sneak up with a rifle within 300 ft of the highest profile target and get several shots off. Trump slightly looks the other way and he's dead from an angry kid. A former secret service agent said on the news that it would have been more of a catastrophe if it had been an innocent teenager just trying to get a good view of the events who had been sniped by accident. The roof should have had 1-2 police officers there to secure it. It was the only such roof nearby This is exactly the issue

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