I just spent a couple hours watching the Congressional Hearing into the Secret Service security lapses on July 13th in Butler, Pa. that resulted in a near assassination of Donald Trump, and the tragic death and wounding of three spectators. It was largely a waste of time, because the Director of Secret Service was unprepared, obfuscating, and flat out refused to provide details to simple questions that the public and Media have been asking for nine days. She hasn't even bothered to visit the site of the Butler, Pa. rally. She hasn't listened to radio communications between Secret Service, and State and Local Police. She claimed they had an "overview" of the roof where the sniper was, but had no answers how that "overview" could have missed over 20 minutes of him climbing to the roof with a rifle and getting into position to shoot. She was unable to give a good answer why Jill Biden had 4 times as many Secret Service Agents assigned to her detail that same day for a much smaller and secure indoor event of 400 people in Pittsburgh. She claims she does not know the number of security personnel present that day, and won't have all the details for around 60 days. That is totally unacceptable. 60 days to have answers and make necessary corrections is more than half-way to Election Day.
At least there was a general bipartisan opinion that she should resign or be fired. Her actions before and after show she is unqualified to handle the responsibility and make needed changes. She has no intention to resign, and has no shame. Her Boss, Joe Biden, should have fired her by now. But he is irresponsible and unqualified as well.
Predictably though, many Congressional Democrats used this Hearing as an opportunity to Grandstand their contempt for AR-15 and AK-47 type rifles. They focused more on the gun involved than the security lapses that led to squandering almost an hour on a security threat that had been identified almost one hour prior to the shooting. The Secret Service Director had no answers about several minutes of Secret Service snipers seeing the assassin without immediately stopping the speech or neutralizing the obvious threat, until he actually started shooting at Trump and a very crowded venue. She refused to confirm there was an order to stand down until shots were fired. Despite that, Minority leader Democrat Jamie Raskin's closing remarks were predominately concerned with renewing a ban on semi-auto rifles.
I was disappointed that none of the Republicans thought to mention that John F. Kennedy was effectively killed with a bolt action Carcano. Any decent shot could hit someone in the head from prone position at 130 yards with a single shot black powder rifle. And in this day and age, the shooter or some foreign assassin team or Terrorist could even take out a President with things like a Drone attack, or by crashing a hijacked airplane into a rally. Even worse is the fact that anti-gun Democrats continue to scream for more infringements upon the Gun Right of law abiding citizens, yet they continue to willfully ignore the fact that about as many Americans have died of drug overdoses in the last 3 1/2 years under Biden's open border policy as the total number of American soldiers killed in all of WW II
I hope Dave will post this Thread, even if he decides to lock it. I do feel some discussion would be interesting, and wouldn't drive anybody away. I could easily point to another Firearms Forum that has an active "Trump Assassination Attempt" thread that is now 141 pages and still running. It is an Election year and our Gun Rights are at stake again. For a Firearms Forum, it doesn't get much more On-Topic than that.
And I further hope that everyone here would contact their Congressmen and Senators to tell them that antigun Democrats are being very hypocritical by focusing on taking away more of our 2nd Amendment Rights... while ignoring and actually enabling the much more serious threats we face by Democrats permitting deadly drugs and terrorists to enter our unsecured borders. The Secret Service Director had one job. And Kamala Harris also had one job... of securing the Southern Border. Both of them failed miserably. And Democrats are concentrating on blaming our guns. It's what they do.
