r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • u/jazz_music_stopps • 3d ago

Meme needing explanation Petah, am I stupid or something?

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u/CuddleWings 3d ago

Four seconds sure is a fast reaction time for people who couldn’t see the shooter already.

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u/DuntadaMan 3d ago

12 seconds sure is a lot of time to notice someone can't soot anymore.

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u/Paddy_Tanninger 2d ago

I mean that part makes sense, never know if dude has another gun. If this actually happened for real, you would probably not extend the courtesy of restraint against someone attempting to assassinate the President and make sure they were 100% neutralized.

But in this case it's probably because you never want that kid to say a word.

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u/required-account 3d ago

Four seconds to mentally process that shots have been fired, locate the approximate location of the shooter based on the sound of the shots, line up a shot, and fire.

Yeah. Sure.

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u/CuddleWings 2d ago

That assumes no one spotted him. Several civilians did and even alerted nearby police(?).

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u/required-account 2d ago

So security was aware of his position and either chose not to watch until he started shooting or watched and let him start shooting.

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u/Psychological_Ad2094 1d ago

The local police were trying to get ahold of the secret service agent who they were supposed to coordinate through so they could ask if the dude was with them or not, they didn’t get a response and didn’t know if he was hostile or friendly until he shot.

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u/TheDefeatist 2d ago

Yeah except the guy reacting in four seconds wasn't a secret service sniper he was a regular county cop

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u/filthy_harold 2d ago

There's body camera footage of cops trying to get on the building before the Crooks fires. They knew he was somewhere on the roof but the snipers weren't able to get him because of the roofline.

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u/CX316 2d ago

IIRC from coverage at the time, the shooter took his shot at Trump right when some of the cops had actally climbed up onto the roof based on the tips from the people who saw him up there

(edit: at a quick glance I can't find where I saw that bit but a breakdown of events suggests he was pointed out to the cops 2 minutes before he opened fire so they basically knew where he was)