Sniper took picture of Trump rally shooter, saw him use rangefinder before assassination attempt, source says

https://lemmy.world/post/17632822

Sniper took picture of Trump rally shooter, saw him use rangefinder before assassination attempt, source says - Lemmy.World

pulls out range finder from ~130 yards away. Proceeds to miss 7/8 shots completely on a 6ft3" 240lb man from the prone.

Apparently, he tried to join his school’s rifle club but was rejected for having terrible marksmanship.
That’s so stupid, isn’t that kinda what school clubs are for

I’m not commenting on whether that’s true or not, but it isn’t how it works in the south. If you want to play high school soccer or whatever, you have to quality by doing well in middle school. Some places, middle school is competitive enough to warrant tryouts.

Extracurriculars are also rapidly getting more expensive. Too many parents want to pretend their kids are in the NFL or NBA or whatever.

If you break Range rules, you get 86ed
¯⁠\\⁠_⁠(⁠ツ⁠)⁠_⁠/⁠¯ I’m just relaying what I read in the news. I agree that it’s dumb for a club (as opposed to a competitive rifle “team”) to be like that, but it’s allegedly what happened nonetheless.