Charpie said:

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We need to flag the speculation posts.

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Hey I am in the Crooks did the shooting camp, but I do not mind a little conspiracy theory talk while we wait for facts to come out. Might be waiting awhile…10, 20, maybe 60 years

I dont think this was a set up or any weird conspiracy.

This was gross negligence. This was utter incompetence.

I think it's likely there was mass confusion and the counter snipers didn't know/couldn't confirm that the assassin was a bad guy because the locals were in the building.

I also don't think this kid was anything more than a crazy loner, probably on meds and someone looking for a way to make his name known.

It is such a failure it does beg the question of am inside job and it's gonna take a hell of a Lotta work to prove otherwise.

Wiping the slate clean doing a fact based approach.

A 20-year old kid from Pennsylvania lives with his parents. In his spare time he works at a nursing home in food service. Posts on Discord and drives around in his Nissan Sentra.

Both the kids parents are mental health experts. Dad owns 20-guns and they are a member of a local shooting club.

The kid gets up on the morning of July 13th. Goes Home Depot and buys a extension ladder. Goes to the gun and ammo shop nearby and buys a box of 5.56.

He then drives an hour and a half from where he lives to Butler.

Accesses the parameter of an industrial park where the police sniper headquarters is located.

He climbs up on to of the roof directly above the sniper headquarters which is 140 yards from where Trump is speaking.

He then shoots Trump in the ear before he is quickly dispatched by counter-snipers within seconds.

How we doing so far?

Crooks last 48 hours;

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In the 48 hours before the shooting, the 20-year-old took a series of actions to ready himself for the attack, CNN reported.

"He went to a shooting range where he was a member, and practiced firing," a law enforcement official told the news outlet. The next day, he made a trip to Home Depot and bought a five-foot ladder. He later purchased 50 rounds of ammunition from a local gun store.

On the day of the Pennsylvania rally at which Trump was set to address the crowd, Crooks drove to the venue and parked his car close by with an improvised explosive device concealed in the trunk. The device as connected to a transmitter he carried on his person.

Upon arriving, Crooks climbed a nearby building using the ladder he purchased. Shortly after, he tried to shoot the former president, grazing him in the ear. The presence of the transmitter led authorities to believe he was planning a larger-scale assault. "That suggests the gunman may have been planning to set off an explosion remotely," said a law enforcement official.

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It's unclear how Crooks assembled the explosive devices found in his car. Investigators parsing through his online search history haven't found any indication of him researching how to make home-made explosives, law enforcement officials said.

The AR-style rifle Crooks used to fire on Trump was legally purchased by his father, Matthew Crooks. It was one of more than 20 firearms registered to the elder Crooks, which were kept at the family's home, according to Pennsylvania State Police records reviewed by investigators, the official said. All of the guns were legally purchased.

The gunman and his father were members of Clairton Sportsmen's Club, a gun club about a 25-minute drive from his house, and enjoyed going shooting there together, according to law enforcement officials. Rob Bootay, a lawyer for the club, confirmed in a statement that the younger Crooks was a member.

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So, more shooting experience than some had assumed.

nortex97 said:

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Crooks last 48 hours;

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In the 48 hours before the shooting, the 20-year-old took a series of actions to ready himself for the attack, CNN reported.

"He went to a shooting range where he was a member, and practiced firing," a law enforcement official told the news outlet. The next day, he made a trip to Home Depot and bought a five-foot ladder. He later purchased 50 rounds of ammunition from a local gun store.

On the day of the Pennsylvania rally at which Trump was set to address the crowd, Crooks drove to the venue and parked his car close by with an improvised explosive device concealed in the trunk. The device as connected to a transmitter he carried on his person.

Upon arriving, Crooks climbed a nearby building using the ladder he purchased. Shortly after, he tried to shoot the former president, grazing him in the ear. The presence of the transmitter led authorities to believe he was planning a larger-scale assault. "That suggests the gunman may have been planning to set off an explosion remotely," said a law enforcement official.

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It's unclear how Crooks assembled the explosive devices found in his car. Investigators parsing through his online search history haven't found any indication of him researching how to make home-made explosives, law enforcement officials said.

The AR-style rifle Crooks used to fire on Trump was legally purchased by his father, Matthew Crooks. It was one of more than 20 firearms registered to the elder Crooks, which were kept at the family's home, according to Pennsylvania State Police records reviewed by investigators, the official said. All of the guns were legally purchased.

The gunman and his father were members of Clairton Sportsmen's Club, a gun club about a 25-minute drive from his house, and enjoyed going shooting there together, according to law enforcement officials. Rob Bootay, a lawyer for the club, confirmed in a statement that the younger Crooks was a member.

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So, more shooting experience than some had assumed.

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He got up on the roof using a 5' ladder?! Really?!

Stat Monitor Repairman said:

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Wiping the slate clean doing a fact based approach.

A 20-year old kid from Pennsylvania lives with his parents. In his spare time he works at a nursing home in food service. Posts on Discord and drives around in his Nissan Sentra.

Both the kids parents are mental health experts. Dad owns 20-guns and they are a member of a local shooting club.

The kid gets up on the morning of July 13th. Goes Home Depot and buys a extension ladder. Goes to the gun and ammo shop nearby and buys a box of 5.56.

He then drives an hour and a half from where he lives to Butler.

Accesses the parameter of an industrial park where the police sniper headquarters is located.

He climbs up on to of the roof directly above the sniper headquarters which is 140 yards from where Trump is speaking.

He then shoots Trump in the ear before he is quickly dispatched by counter-snipers within seconds.

How we doing so far?

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You forgot one thing......he carried that ladder and rifle across the field and placed the ladder against the building, then scaled it and crawled across the roof. AND NO LE NOTICED.

Animation mapping out the shooter and sniper locations

The illusion of security is sometimes more important than actual security.

This whole incident is a colossal ****up.

Now that some 20 year old random psycho was able to get this this close and actually hit his target, this will only embolden other idiots to try the same on other targets.

This impacts everyone from the far left, through the center and all the way to the right.

nortex97 said:

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I'd hazard a guess it was a telescoping ladder.

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So... you're saying it was an ASSAULT ladder.

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