A man with an AK-style rifle pointed the firearm’s muzzle into Donald Trump’s golf club in West Palm Beach, Florida, as the former president was playing a round, prompting the U.S. Secret Service to open fire, according to three law enforcement officials.
The FBI is investigating what it called an “attempted assassination” of former President Donald Trump after Secret Service agents fired at a man with an AK-47 on or near Trump’s Florida golf course on Sunday.
A spokesperson for Donald Trump‘s campaign said the former president is “safe.” Law enforcement sources told ABC News a suspect is in custody.
Palm Beach County Sheriff Ric Bradshaw said the gunman was 300 to 500 yards away from the former president when he was spotted. Secret Service agents fired and the suspect dropped the gun and fled, a senior law enforcement official told ABC News. It was not clear if the suspect was aiming his weapon at Trump.
The source said the suspect got into a vehicle and witnesses reported the license plate number which was tracked by authorities. The suspect was stopped and taken into custody.
Even at 300 yards a semi-auto AK has pretty low odds of connecting with a single fatal shot. But it sounds like the suspected assassin may have been waiting for Trump to get closer.
A gunman was captured Sunday after apparently trying to shoot former President Donald Trump at a golf course in Florida.
Trump is OK, and no injuries were reported by authorities after Secret Service agents fired at the gunman they spotted in the bushes.
Palm Beach County Sheriff Ric Bradshaw said the incident took place about 1:30 while the former president was golfing at Trump International Golf Club in West Palm Beach.
They immediately sealed off the area, after Secret Service agents fired four to six rounds at the gunman.
The agents were a couple of holes ahead of where the former president was playing when they spotted a rifle barrel sticking out of the course shrubbery.
I could make a lot of speculative comments but I’m going to let the story develop more before saying what Trump supporters are probably already thinking.
As we enter the homestretch of the 2024 election, Harris is trying to pull off the greatest magic trick in the history of American politics. She is attempting to make the Biden-Harris administration disappear. She wants to convince voters that she and President Biden had nothing to do with the last three-and-a-half years.
More than that, Harris seemingly wants to pretend that Trump is somehow the incumbent president, and that she is the upstart “change” candidate fighting against the failed policies of the last three-and-a-half years. It is surreal to say the least.
It is a slick sleight of hand doomed to fail, because people will believe their “lying eyes.” For tens of millions of voters, the number one failure of the Biden-Harris administration is the economy, quickly followed by immigration, crime and health care. These voters will tie the incumbent vice president to those failures.
Harris, elitist Democrats, academics, media personalities and celebrities existing in entitled bubbles of luxury and personal safety can embrace Jan. 6, Roe v. Wade, etc. all they want, but this election is still going to come down to the bread-and-butter issues of the economy, immigration, crime and affordable and reliable healthcare.
And on that score, it will be the Americans living paycheck-to-paycheck who will push Trump over the top to victory in November.
A falsehood they have a significant investment in.
Celebrities pontificating on subjects they know nothing about.
A comforting falsehood, even when the uncomfortable truth is obvious.
I don’t think anyone can reliably know what will happen in the next few weeks before the election to predict anything better than they can predict the flip of a coin.
Furthermore, a good case can be made that it is not a fair coin, and a probable T side result will be reversed in the dark of the night to show an H.
A Trump judge in Kansas ruled that the Second Amendment invalidates criminal charges against a defendant charged with illegally possessing a machine gun. The case is United States v. Morgan.
Judge John Broomes’s decision in Morgan is obviously wrong, even under the Supreme Court’s most aggressively pro-gun opinion, which Broomes relied on heavily.
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This chaos is likely to continue until Bruen is overruled. The history and tradition test announced in the case provides lower court judges with no meaningful guidance on which gun laws are constitutional. And Bruen allows judges who are determined to reach pro-gun conclusions no matter what the consequences to strike down virtually any gun law — which may explain Broomes’s decision in the Morgan case.
I find it very telling that Millhiser says the decision is obviously wrong but doesn’t bother to explain it to those of us, including federal judges, he apparently thinks are too stupid to figure it out on our own. I would especially enjoy seeing him tap dance around the U.S. v. Miller decision on the topic of machine guns.
He also is either stupid, ignorant and/or deliberately lying when he fails to mention that in both Heller and Bruen SCOTUS said the 2nd Amendment text has already taken into account any balancing of interests. The “consequences” he is concerned about cannot be considered in determining whether a law is unconstitutional or not.
In last night’s three-on-one debate the ABC News moderators used misleading crime data from the FBI to ‘fact check’
@realDonaldTrump. The reality is that Trump (as he usually is) was right – crime is not down – it is up, way up. Kamala Harris and her willing accomplices in the mainstream media would have you believe that violent crime in America is at a 50-year low, a narrative eagerly parroted by so-called fact-checkers at Politifact and now ABC News. The reality, however, is far from what they claim. The only thing at a 50-year low is the integrity of violent crime data. Less than a year after taking office, Biden-Harris’s administration had the FBI dismantle the long-standing crime reporting system, replacing it in 2021 with a new, ‘woke’ system that is optional for state and local law enforcement agencies to use. As a result, at least 6,000 law enforcement agencies aren’t providing data, meaning that 25% of the country’s crime data is not captured by the FBI. This deliberate underreporting skews the statistics, painting a falsely optimistic picture of public safety while real Americans continue to suffer from rising crime rates.
Democrat-controlled cities from New York to San Francisco have effectively decriminalized violent crime. For instance, in New York City, 52% of violent felony cases are downgraded to misdemeanors, and offenders are typically offered diversion agreements that keep these offenses out of crime statistics. This manipulation alone could account for a 50% or more drop in reported violent crimes in the Big Apple. Across the country, Soros-backed prosecutors are refusing to prosecute violent criminals or downgrading their charges in record numbers. This systematic underreporting and leniency are tactics used by Democrats to create a misleading narrative about public safety, while communities continue to suffer from unchecked crime. It’s not far-fetched to imagine that the Biden-Harris regime and the Democrats replaced the FBI’s universal crime data system with a new optional system to fabricate this massive decrease in ‘reported’ crime. The move raises serious questions about their motives and the integrity of the data. Of course, the Democrats will argue that the new system is more inclusive, allowing law enforcement agencies to record pronouns and gender identities, including transgender and nonbinary, as well as the sexual preferences of both criminals and victims. The timing and optional nature of the new system suggest an ulterior motive: to obscure the real rise in crime and present a false narrative of improvement under Democratic leadership.
Additionally, we know that the 70 Soros-backed prosecutors, representing 72 million Americans and half of the nation’s 50 most populous cities and counties, have made it their mission to implement so-called restorative justice. This approach often means refusing to prosecute violent criminals based on factors such as race and gender identity. The few criminals they do prosecute almost always have their violent felonies downgraded to misdemeanors. Both of these realities—the new optional reporting system and the restorative justice efforts—have led to violent crime data that fails to reflect the true state of our communities since 2021. These manipulations distort public perception and allow Democrats to promote a false sense of security. National polls reveal that most Americans believe crime has increased significantly over the past four years. The situation is even more dire in large Democrat-controlled cities, where almost all residents report a massive surge in crime. Most residents even report that they or someone in their family has been a victim of crime. Take Chicago, for example. Every weekend, approximately 70 people are shot. The crisis has escalated to such an extent that the mayor recently canceled the city’s contract with a company that detects and reports gunfire. There are so many gunshots in Chicago that police can only respond if someone is actually hit by a bullet. New York City is similarly experiencing a huge spike in robberies and assaults, often occurring in broad daylight. The situation became so severe this year that the governor had to deploy National Guard troops to the NYC subway system to deter criminals. Before District Attorney Alvin Bragg and Attorney General Letitia James took office, these violent crimes would have been prosecuted as felonies. Now, if they are prosecuted at all, they are often downgraded to misdemeanors with diversion deals. There is also ample evidence that the FBI and the Biden-Harris regime are simply cooking the books. Watch Jesse Waters expose what he calls Enron-style corruption in their crime reporting. The next time someone tries to tell you that Biden and Harris have reduced crime to its lowest levels in 50 years, let them know the truth. It’s easy to claim a decrease in crime when you leave out data from 25% of the population living in major cities like Los Angeles and New York City. The reality is, these omissions paint a misleading picture of the state of crime in America. Don’t let them gaslight you with manipulated statistics. Demand full transparency and accountability in crime reporting to get the real story.
Candidate Harris and her co-conspirators claim crime is at a 50-year and the gun control she and Biden implemented are responsible for this. That Biden and Harris are responsible for the violent crime rate is at least partially true. But it is not something to be proud of.
‘Tim Walz and I are both gun owners. We’re not taking anybody’s guns away. So stop with the continuous lying about this stuff,’ she said during the debate with former President Donald Trump.
Did you hear that? She is one of us! Yay!!!!
But, of course, the way you can tell she is lying is that her lips are moving. From the same article:
During the 2020 Democratic presidential primary, Harris proposed a series of gun control policies, even backing a controversial government-run mandatory gun buyback program.
She detailed her position in an MSNBC forum on gun safety in October 2019.
‘We have to have a buyback program, and I support a mandatory gun buyback program,’ she said.
Harris warned there were already estimates of up to 10 million assault weapons in the United States.
‘We’re going to have to have smart public policy that’s about taking those off the streets, but doing it the right way,’ she said.
“Mandatory gun buyback”? She can’t “buyback” something she didn’t sell us. Of course, the phrase really means they will take our tax money at gun point, give some of it back it to us as an inadequate payment for the guns they are forcibly taking from us and will then tell us we should be thankful they gave us some of our money back.
Hey, Gwen. You and your husband picked June 4th, the day of Tiananmen Square Massacre, as your wedding day and went to Tiananmen Square for your wedding anniversary.
Don’t pretend that you don’t know what a tyrannical government can do to a disarmed population!!
You want to eradicate our Constitutional right to bear arms. You are a Communist and a threat to our Republic!!!
I’d tell her to, “Stack up and do it!” But the account doesn’t exist anymore. Perhaps she tried taking someone’s gun and found out the hard way that is a life altering decision.
Don’t ever let anyone get away with telling you no one wants to take your guns.
I am reminded that my brother purchased his first gun, a brand new .357 Magnum revolver, at a grocery store in Moscow, Idaho.
I also remember when guns were sold in the Sears, Roebuck and Company catalog and would be delivered via the U.S. Postal Service. I do not remember anyone buying a gun from the catalog, but I remember seeing the guns in the catalogs. At that time machine guns were also available.
The violent crime rate must have been out of control, right?
Here is the US violent crime rate by year from 1960 to 2008 (via Copilot, I don’t know why it would not produce data for any years past 2008):
The Gun Control Act of 1968 ended mail order sales of guns. That really put a dent in the violent crime rate, huh? And how about that “assault weapon ban” from 1994 to 2004? Yeah baby! That was some good lawmaking there.
I look forward to the return of the state of gun laws prior to not just 1968, but 1934. As I have stated before, my goal is to have machine gun shooting sports in high schools in less than ten nine years.
Okay… That sound great. But why are other organizations still spending billions to try and maintain break even energy production for a few seconds?
The answer may be later in the article:
However, he mentioned certain challenges in the execution of the plan. It includes difficulties in raising 1 trillion yen to build the pilot reactor, establishing high-temperature superconductivity technology for coils, and establishing security rules to get local construction approval.
Ah yes… that little problem of needing high-temperature superconductors. People have been trying to solve the problem for as many decades as the steady state fusion problem.
In the software world we use to call this vaporware.
“Law enforcement cannot do this alone. We need to engage software developers, technology experts and leaders in the 3-D-printing industry to identify solutions in this fight.
Not an acceptable answer? How about, “HELL NO! And screw you and the horse you came in on.”
In a few years machines guns are going to be legal. Even if it were practical to stop the 3-D printing of machine gun parts, which it is not, the successful convictions they make will be thrown out after the law gets ruled unconstitutional.
The ATF has been shooting dogs and innocent people in their war on guns of decades now. And most of those laws they have been using as excuses for their abuses are being declared unconstitutional. If the federal prosecutors are looking for something to do, they should be prosecuting the thugs in the ATF.
Newer AI models are now being trained, more and more, on content either generated by itself or other AI models.
A researcher that works with Monash University, Jathan Sadowski, recently described a hypothetical self-trained AI as an “an inbred mutant, likely with exaggerated, grotesque features.”
More recently, a study was published in Nature that tested the capabilities of AI trained on itself, and the results were concerning.
By the 5th cycle, the degradation had become stark, and by the 9th, it was almost completely nonsensical.
One of the truisms of machine learning is that result cannot be any better than the data used for learning. And, in fact, it can only be some fraction as good as the input data. Hence, if your learning is 90% as good as in the input and your input was based on AI output which was only 90% as good as the original source, your second-generation AI cannot be expected to be any better than 81% as good as the original.
Gun clubs are becoming the new bingo halls for seniors. They’re places to meet friends, learn new skills, and swap stories. Who knew that gun oil could be the new smell of friendship? These clubs often organize social events beyond shooting, creating tight-knit communities for older adults.
It is a little over the top, but that appeals to my inclination to rub the noses of anti-gun people in a different view of things.
We are going to make the case to the American public that he [Biden] is wrong, anti-gun liberals are wrong, and that the right to self-defense is fundamental to every law-abiding American.
Theirs is a rot that goes deeper than the marrow of their bones.
There may have been a time when the Left in the US had some integrity to their belief but decades of embracing the premeditated death of innocents have corrupted their souls to where no vice is too low for them to commit in their pursuit of power.
I used to wonder how the Nazis or the NKVD/KGB killers could be so beastial in their actions, but reading how they didn’t spring from the maw of Charon fully formed but rather they gave away their souls bit by bit in exchange for a modicum of power and bread, I see that this is where we find ourselves today.
Our foes on the left would gladly kill any of us if it means they could rule over the abattoir.
A lot of people foolishly believe that the gun control movement’s motivation is a misguided but good faith desire to stop criminal violence.
While that’s true of some people who have been personally affected by gun-related crime, for the party leaders and financiers of the left, it’s not really true. If stopping crime were the big concern, they wouldn’t embrace so many policies that quickly release violent criminals back into society.
Criminal violence isn’t the real target, the fact that broad gun ownership is a check on the erosion of other liberties is. What is happening in the UK and Brazil right now is much harder to do in the US. Millions being armed is a major deterrent to it.
Everything the modern American Democrat party does makes sense when you realize the goal is to turn us into docile and harmless western europeans.
I am gun owner with many hours of range and tactical practice and a concealed carry license. You do not need an automatic weapon to hunt. Or to “protect” yourself. Stfu, you impotent crybaby losers. I’m sorry about your small weiners.
They are sorry about something that doesn’t exist? There is something quite fitting about that. I’m sorry their account doesn’t exist either. It makes further mocking difficult and less effective.
Incredibly, only about 8% of violent crimes [reported and unreported] in those cities result in someone being arrested. Only 1% of property crimes, both reported and unreported, result in arrests. These are just mind-boggling numbers. When criminals have a 92% chance of not being arrested, prosecuted or convicted, they don’t fear the consequences of committing more crimes.
The irony is that, as Biden refuses to criticize these district attorneys who are refusing to prosecute violent criminals, he also wants to make it more difficult and costly for law-abiding citizens to be able to protect themselves.
Criminals have a 99% chance of getting away with property crimes. It is almost as if the politicians are communists and believe these criminals are their natural allies against property owners.
Well I decided you guys are very annoying so I’m hoping you will leave. I hope #HarrisWalz2024 win I hope they win the House and the Senate and pass huge gun reforms and get someone to go from door to door and take all of the guns and we can be like the UK and you will only have knives to defend yourselves with.
It will be awesome.
I will be dreaming about it.
Terry Posts ❤️💛💚💙 @Tplusthree Posted on X (and here) August 23, 2024
Just keep on hoping and dreaming Terry. That’s all you are going to get because we are doing things like winning court cases, teaching new people to shoot, and stocking up on ammo and guns.
