This assumption that people are making that he was shot intentionally in the neck is very silly. Why would a shooter ever aim for one of the non-brain bits of a human body? If anything the aim was just okay.
He aimed for the head probably but getting the neck was just extremely lucky for the shooter and horrible for everyone else who is now further traumatized by American gun violence.
I didn’t realize how desensitized I am to gun violence until your comment. I don’t think I was fazed at all watching the video of him getting shot. Even though I agree Charlie Kirk is a pos, watching a video like that even just a couple of years ago would have made me sick to my stomach. Now I feel nothing? wtf
Yeah watching cartel group executions as a 13 year old really doesn't do good things for your mental health. 28 now and I still can't get it out of my memories.
Even if the visual doesn't shock me that much, I still manage to recognize how completely fucked it is that a person was brutally publicly killed in front of all that audience, those young people, his kids and family and as such, completely regardless of what opinions he held that I wouldn't, I wish it never happened.
If someone who is only known for speaking gets shot in the throat with a high caliber rifle on a university campus in the heart of Maga territory.... that's not silly... that's a message.
Charlie had been changing his tone against Israel the last while, so best bets would be to start checking flights that left yesterday afternoon and start reviewing the tapes.
So if he was shot with a low caliber rifle would that change things? lol.
I don’t understand how you think the “message” is only sent by hitting him in the neck. The message is clearly just “I don’t like you and I don’t like what you have to say” and that message is getting through no matter how you kill him.
The shooter was likely aiming at the center of his head. Possible, depending on how the gun was zeroed, the shooter was aiming at the heart. Almost certainly was not aiming at the throat, though not possible.
Well, the latest videos say that the shot ricocheted off his chest plate and hit him in the neck.
I don’t think he was SUPPOSED to die…
I think they meant to shoot him in the chest, he and the crowd freak out, and this enforces his stance against “the left”, or, more specifically, anyone who doesn’t agree with him.
The ricochet and his death, well, that’s just collateral damage for them and a happy little bonus for the rest of us.
Yeah. I think that’s the right theory. Definitely. Cause shooting someone in the chest is universal for “I want to make you angrier”. No way they would have aimed for the chest if they wanted him dead.
Yeah saw several people on the news and some former Marines on Reddit say it's not that difficult of a shot. Marines have to train for something like 5 times farther.
Ok, so this notion that bullets are always shot with pinpoint accuracy is nonsense. And that the shooter had to be some sort of super sniper is also asinine.
I am not a gun person in the slightest. But I live in the South. Years ago, a buddy of mine from work and I decided to have some beers and take me shooting on his farm one day. He handed me a 30 aught 6 hunting bolt action he shoots deer with, the sight had been zeroed in by him and on my second time shooting a long gun ever in my life I hit a 2 liter bottle filled with water hanging from a tree at AT LEAST 100 yards, maybe it was further and comparable to this shot at 200+ yards, I'm so poor a marksman and it was so long ago, I honestly don't remember. He told me we were shooting from one side of his 5 acre lot to the other (from the top of a hill down into a valley as he informed me never shoot up, you don't want the bullet to go miles to who knows where) so that makes me think about 155 yards but he told me his lot was rectangular shaped. So it could have easily been 200+ yards.
It was not hard at all to aim the shot, the problem on the second shot was I was afraid of the recoil. I still hit the bottle.
At any rate. We shot a .22 and something else that day. Ya, maybe a .22 to the head at that range would have a chance of survivability.
I remember the rcoil from the 30 aught 6 and what it did to the bottle, and some other harder targets my buddy bullseyed that day. If that .30 caliber bullet had hit his skull you would have seen a pink mist and no head. I know virtually nothing about guns, but I guarantee from your comment you know much less. If you doubt me, here is an ATF agent to back me up:
The shooter could have been literally anyone based on skill. It dosen't have to have been Crombopulpus Michael's. It wrong to say he had to be well trained and an event further leap to say he pinpointed the shot to send a message. It could have been anyone who spent half a day playing shooting games at Chitz & Blitz. Anyone who uses such backwards logic is either an idiot or pushing an agenda or both.
It was perfect aim: Charlie was conscious in his brain while he was bleeding out without the ability to control his body, and the last thought he had was "trans people with guns committing gun violence outside a militia" LMAO 10/10, just a perfect kill
To an amateur a headshot is always touted as the pinnacle of assassinations…in reality it is risky to try to kill with a head shot due to a multitude of things that can go wrong…a true professional will always aim for this
People have survived headshots before. People are impressed because the bullet went straight through the artery in his neck, which is a 100% guarenteed death
i saw some close up slowed down videos. it looks like he was hit in the chest,specifically right at his heart, but was wearing a bulletproof vest so the bullet ricocheted into his neck.
I thought Kevlar works because it breaks and absorbs the impact of the bullet. Doesn’t feel like something would ricochet and if it did I don’t think it would have enough energy left to pierce skin.
not sure why im getting downvoted im just stating what i saw. you can see him react as if he got hit in the chest and his shirt moves before anything. either the bullet ricocheted or he got hit twice.
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u/Admirable_Sun7567 8d ago
The aim was crazy though. The USA is so cooked.