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git [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.net to news@hexbear.netEnglish · 3 days ago

Secret Service says it exchanged gunfire with armed suspect near White House

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Secret Service says it exchanged gunfire with armed suspect near White House

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  • axont [she/her, comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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    Us Americans love guns but none of us can shoot straight it seems

    Well except the guy who ventilated Charlie Kirk

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      *Allegedly

      We can’t rule out the possibility that his neck just did that.

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        Counting or not counting Charlie Kirk?

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        Necks do, indeed, sometimes just do the weirdest shit.

        Signed, a girl with medically dubious neck pain.

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        he died of high blood pressure

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        If we are Charlie Kirk, and if we carry his flame, what will happen to our necks…?

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        The Deep State implanted a device in his neck and then detonated it

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          Guadalcanal?

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        It was a terrible terrible accident

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      The bullet came from the camera!!1!1!1!1 /s

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    exchanged gunfire

    makes it sound like little gift envelopes. “I showed u my calibre please return fire”

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      It’s reminiscent of headlines about Israeli missiles “finding their way into refugee camps” and other such euphemisms

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        the phrase that lives in my head is “kidnapped from his tank”

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      exchanged gunfire

      makes it sound like little gift envelopes. “I showed u my calibre please return fire”

      Comrade, take my ammo! :soviet-chad:

      :nyet:

      No Comrade! Take mine! :left-unity-4:

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    A juvenile bystander was hit by the suspect

    I might get into polymarket betting on things like this, I would put down money that it will turn out the bystander was shot by SS.

    The lack of detail also makes it sound like he was suspicious so they shot at him, it would be funny if he was just an average 2A guy, the sources say they witnessed a “visual print” of a firearm and suspicious behavior, and when they approached they allegedly exchanged fire. It would be unsurprising if one officer said he saw a gun so they just started blasting at the ‘suspect’ before he did anything.

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    oh so the white house is a gun free zone? fucking liberals.

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    These lone wolves fucking suck at lone wolfing

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      I guess the lone wolves only need to get lucky once? More proof that adventurism doesn’t accomplish anything though. Imagine if all these cranks worked together how much more they would accomplish

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        Give me 20 men and [REDACTED]

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            My favorite Gambo Tones character

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              he just wanted a house and income

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          SCP writers creating a new canon:

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            redaction is great, it means I don't have to be imaginative, my readers take that effort on so-true

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              This but unironically

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                This but redacted-1redacted-2

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        The Expendables but it’s a team-up of crank shooters, with a post-credits scene from:

        spoiler

        George H.W. Bush

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        if all these cranks wanted to organize they wouldn’t be cranks in the first place

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      fiber optic drone without any signature and 1000 km sq of search area for a suspect vs i take gun i shoot gun at 10 m sq area, best shot was at 90000 m sq. american adventurers are not intellectual to put it mildly.

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        Has there been a homegrown assassination/attempt using drones? They’ve been used to kill people for decades now but has anyone tried to use one in a credible attempt to kill a politician/other vip?

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          Probably stretches the definition of homegrown but Ukrainian nazis tried to get an American Nazi teenager to kill Trump with a drone. He killed his parents first and then got caught on his way to pick up the drone though. Events in Ukraine has an article about it: https://eventsinukraine.substack.com/p/trump-assassin-part-i-the-misanthropic

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        Making a fiber optic drone is expensive, a lot of these cranks usually have guns lying around somewhere and it’s easily accessible.

        Plus making any kind of explosive is something that could go south real quick lol

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          It can’t be that hard to learn. I hear that nobody ever makes the same mistake twice!

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          2k bucks is expensive but 500 bucks gun + getting shot at isn’t? one needn’t do explosives, those are illegal, flying a lead rod at 60 km/h is not (although optic fiber drones are slower to be fair)

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            You can’t just roll down to your local bass pro and pick up explosives.

            You can’t realistically train with explosives. Or if you do it’s a lot harder and more expensive.

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              and as i’ve said those are illegal, and how aspiring but not bright people get entrapped anyway and this is a christian forum. you tell me though, do you think getting 200 g lead rod to the dome at 40-60 km/h is good for health

              more to the point inside qatar airforce one during takeoff

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                You’ve got to hit that pretty hard for it to go bang

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            I also think a lot of normies don’t even know what a fiber optic drone is LOL

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          It amazes me no one has hooked up an AR-15 to a drone yet. They have such little recoil that it shouldn’t impact flight stability much.

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            They’re kind of heavy. You could probably strip a bunch of parts off, though.

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              the heaviness of the firearm relative to the bullet size is what makes the recoil low

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                Yeah but drones don’t have 10 pound payloads easily

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            israel did iirc but that’s quite a heap of r&d for our garden variety adventurists

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        Too much Law and Order

        They think you can just shoot the president from five feet away and no one will notice because of all the walking and talking

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        Is a fiber optic drone going to work in a city? That fiber trail you’re leaving behind could get broken by traffic or a random person.

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          it hangs between the buildings/trees, but it could definitely. mr trumpo appears in golf resorts and political rallies tho, white house is wrong place to try anything, cause it’s a building anyway, in the most policed city in the world

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        Surely the secret service has a protocol for ‘unidentified drone’ in airspace? You’d see it coming a mile away.

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          will you? seems like common identification zone is round 100 meters, and they don’t even paint them for sky colors

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    “There was no indication Vance was a target”

    since when do cops do you favors downgrading potential motives when they could just call it an assassination attempt and lock them up forever

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      “oh yeah even we don’t think that dickhead is important enough to kill”

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      us-foreign-policy

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        Yea my first draft was “tell me they were white w/o saying “they’re white””

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    i may not support their guns BUT I SUPPORT A FREE EXCHANGE OF GUNFIRE! FREEDOM! liberalism

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    “this keeps happening and we have no idea why!” angry-place

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      I blame radical antifa cnn for being mean to Trump and Wolf Blitzer telling the audience how to make pipe bombs.

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        What if it was Wolf Blitzball and he was really, really into Tidus and Wakka from FFX

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    just trading gunfire like pokemon cards 🎴

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    The Bluesky brigades have been activated.

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      Bluesky got shooters

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    What’s even the point of the 2nd if you don’t know how to use it

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    Radical centrism is serious business on United States of Epstein

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    False flag

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    Bets on what incoherent flavor of lib this one was?

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    Sounds like he was probably targeting JD Vance, not Trump

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