Comment on I've never been in a situation where me having a gun would have made things bettter.

SharkWeek@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

• Pumafred9@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  I’d probably miss so hard, but I have zero sniping experience.

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  • SharkWeek@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    And this is why practice is important …

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  • dreadbeef@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    coward

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• mech@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  If I had a gun in that situation, I’d likely be killed by his bodyguards within seconds.
  Line of sight goes both ways.
  And I wouldn’t even want to shoot. I’m no assassin and also don’t believe that assassinating him would magically solve all the problems his movement causes.

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  • SharkWeek@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    That’s why I said snipe, namely to shoot from a long distance from a concealed location.

    Also, while it wouldn’t fix any structural problems it would break the cult of personality, and mean that whoever wants to follow in his footsteps in he immediate future would be aware that if they go too far there might be repercussions (unlike at the moment, where people are being killed and nobody is taking physical action to stop it).

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    • mech@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Can you name a single instance of the assassination of a ruler that lead to a positive outcome down the line?

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      • SharkWeek@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Luis Carrero Blanco’s assassination, despite much pearl clutching, helped to weaken Franco’s regime. So, when he died two years later, there wasn’t a solid power structure in place to continue fascism in Spain.

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      • absentbird@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        I am strongly anti assassination, but if not for the assassination of William McKinley we probably would never have got Teddy Roosevelt, who was instrumental in busting the trusts and restoring balance to the economy.

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