They shot Trump

[jond41403]

I don't understand the "moving target" comments. I've watched the video too many times to count now.

Start the clock...
TRUMP: "That's a little bit old now...that chart......"

7.5 seconds after the word "That's" in the sentence above, the first shot rings out. Likely longer. The video I just pulled up now starts at the sentence above.

Was the shooter nervous? sure. Because of what, cops, adrenaline? who cares - irrelevant. Being a good shot is more than just fundamentals of a shooting position, sight picture, etc. It's also about staying relatively calm under pressure. He likely had not developed that skill, and Trump is alive because of it.
So his mistake was either
a) going for the head shot when he had a perfect, stationary, center-of-mass to aim at. (I have not seen the optics/site on the rifle used yet.) or
b) he really was a poor shot, all things considered.

Even with a head shot and the target bobbing around, I don't think his head was moving enough to completely clear the sight picture at that distance, borderline with irons, certainly not with any magnification. I completely understand rushing and missing shots 2-8, but not so much the first one. This puts him in (b) above, likely with (a) compounding.

I think just mainly his head was moving. I recently saw a computer generated recreation of when the bullets were fired and how Trump moved his head at the same time. I wish I knew where I saw that because it wasn't on YouTube I've already checked My history. The illustration I saw if correct, shows he turned his head at the moment of the first shot and tilted it just a hair allowing the bullet to go through his ear. The same simulation showed that if Trump had not turned his head and tilted it at that exact moment, it would have went somewhere near the temple area or above his right eye in the forehead. So in reality the shooter wasn't a totally bad shot, I think it was just a combination of things like Charlie mentioned where the cop right before the shooting probably made the shooter rush his first shot not knowing when the police were going to be climbing up after him. But one would think that the shooter should have known he at least had time to carefully aim the first shot and then maybe have to rush the rest of the shots. If the local police were supposed to be on top of that building and truly left because it was too hot, then that hot roof might have played a role too in him missing