• ubergeek@lemmy.today
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    10 hours ago

    There are many leftists who a) own guns, and b) can hit a 200yd man sized target.

    Its a good shot, and a hard shot, but its not an unusually skilled shot. Many hunters take 200, 300, even 500 yd shots, usually to the boiler room, but neck shots are somewhat commonly done too.

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      10 hours ago

      <waves> Here’s another. Not even American either.

      And yes thank you for saying it’s not that big a deal of a shot if they were using anything remotely decent. Another thread had someone theorising it had to be Russian special forces because of the difficulty of the shot. I mean come on, 200 yards from an elevated platform, clear line of sight, stationary target, clear day no wind. Shooting wise it’s about as easy as it gets.

      The difficulty comes in the fact it’s not a deer hunt - the shooter was probably fearing being seen, aware of the consequences of getting caught, if mentally normal then killing another person is very hard, adrenaline up (makes the hands shake and messes with the head), those are the things that make it hard nothing else.

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      Yeah I find that point a bit odd. I’m not American so not around guns but it appears the more interesting thing is the person got away after now that must be difficult with all the camera around.

      This feels more like a professional killing for whatever reason. Now I’m just an armchair detective. But could instantly see that the Luigi killing was more an amateur than an actual assassin due to him buying coffee before hand and stuff.