There's so much I could say...but I know I mustn't

Snore. Too bad dude didn't hit his mark. Just saying. It was so predictable

It's like watching a rerun of some television crime drama! I haven't even kept up with the news because it's all so boring now.

He's spent years vilifying the press as the eneMies of tHe peoPle !! Stirring up his MAGA base like a rabid madman

I'll wait to hear from the dumbass shooter

It was Trump and his cabinet, except for Patel for some reason.

I want to know what kind of shells did he have in his shotgun? Bird shot? double aught buck? punkin balls?

… he used buckshot because he didn’t want unintended victims hurt badly. Sorry I can’t remember the source as I saw it scrolling through myriad FB posts.

... was loaded with buckshot, according to his "manifesto". Just one buckshot pellet can wreak serious damage, and even kill if it hits in the right place. A full load can blow a man in half at close range. The cartridge itself would have to be what they call "high-brass", which refers to brass casing at the bottom of a shotgun shell. High-brass is necessary for the increased gunpowder charge behind the wad and the 9 pellets usually found in a double-00 shotgun shell.
I believe that one LEO was hit, but he was wearing a ballistic (bullet-proof) vest. Pellets on the outside of the pattern could have hit an unprotected arm, but regardless, the just force of the impact at close range could inflict internal injuries even through a vest.

... In Massachusetts, and other densely populated states, deer hunters can only use shotguns loaded with buckshot. Here in Vermont, rifles are permitted. I don't hunt anymore, but when I did, the Savage 99 F model with the rotary magazine chambered for .308 was my weapon of choice. It's a very accurate lever action rifle mounted with a 4 x scope with duplex crosshairs.
My Winchester 12 gauge Model 12 shotgun with a factory-shortened barrel was only used for gamebirds. The shorter barrel was easier to maneuver in dense cover.

centerfire rifle rounds. A missed shot using a rifle bullet will still travel thousands of yards and kill someone, buckshot pellets aren't lethal beyond a few hundred yards.

long ago atrophied. This country does not take shootings seriously. Not even if it involves a classroom of innocent children. So why would it matter for the president, who hasn't lifted a finger to show any interest in stopping this level of violence?

Maybe it wasn't even a potential or planned shooting. For all we know it was a TV reality show, and Chump is always the star, no matter what happens.

His ballroom. It was an opportunity he couldn’t miss, but did he suspect the probability was high?

However I was referring to a "target" - presumably Chump or other politicians.

He's in the toilet now...expect to see a slight bump in polls. But his incompetence and disregard for the needs of the American people will keep those numbers low.

is that with all those Secret Service, he wasn't immediately filled with a hundred bullets. The Secret Service is not trained to do anything but eliminate the threat.......

I suppose now, with him alive, the Republican owned/operated mass Media and Fox News can constantly use him, every day, from now to the next election, in the news.

Yet, John Hinkley was not killed, neither was Squeaky Fromme or Ryan Routh. Maybe eliminate the threat encompasses more than just killing the suspect?

Have you ever wondered why the Presidential SS Detail keeps their jackets un-buttoned? Or why some have a fake hand hanging out of their Jacket sleeve??????????

I had to laugh at Trumps press gathering afterwards....He gave away one of the SS's security secrets...........

. . . one high school grad, one 9th grader.

They have been doing mass shooter drills in school since they were first graders -- that's 20 YEARS OF MASS SHOOTER DRILLS IN SCHOOLS FOR CHILDREN.

School children don't have Secret Service, DC Police and US Capitol Police.

My response to the WHCD affair is the same as the OP: . . . I'm not surprised, I'm not concerned and I really don't care

Not very dramatic... rather anticlimactic.
The tricks are getting old and tired.

Now he and his influential industrial complex are pushing for his ballroom to be built 🙄 Whenever things look bad for him, something pops up to pivot attention in a positive way for him. Uncanny how this keeps happening for him.

We're all sitting ducks all the time, even rich people and tuxedoed people and women in designer gowns.

Saw my breaking news notification about this last night, and I didn't even bother to open it. I said to myself it can wait till the morning.

I used to live there.

PressSec might be touting the great numbers and profits for local dry cleaners

And the stoneless whimps of the GOP fall for his shit again.
He doesn’t need a ballroom. No military person, no other POTUS has ever asked for one.
He’s demented, and lying. He should be in jail for breaking the law with his ballroom.
Also, Iran. Also, Epstein. Also, did the price of gas go down following this brief incident? Has anyone gotten their health insurance back? A raise? Or did they just get fired, or have their food stamps taken away? Can anyone afford child care now? Pay off a student loan?
Also, Iran. Also, Ukraine. Also, Cuba.
Sorry or concerned is not at all what I feel. Angry that the media still falls for this garbage.

But, 'MORE DEFLECTION' from the Epstein files.

Only genuflection from the myriad sickophants .(And that's not a misspelling.)

I'm going to just ignore it"

Good attitude

WHO fired the shots.
I see a guy running through a checkpoint and out of frame.
I see a lot of weapons drawn by security.

Who fired the shots? I say it was security.
The impressive part is that this guy is alive to talk.

Since everyone switched from revolvers to semi-autos, I notice a tendency to 'empty the clip' when shooting anything.
Aiming is optional as everyone is now gangsta.

Watch the news and tell me I'm wrong.

How did trump put the paper of him on his TS shortly after it happened?

Rec

come up with another stunt to keep attention on himself.

I really don't care, do you?

This is just one of many.

Who said 'gun deaths are the price we pay for freedom'?

Ok, Charlie Kirk, amongst others.

The reaction from the crowd at the WHCD event says 'yeah, ok, but not here, and not me!'
Wolf Blitzer - gosh, guns make a scary noise!

Not much of a 'freedom' to have to live with, really.

Second amendment translation: 'You have the right to be gunned down at any time, by anyone, for any reason.'

My only concern is hoping this doesn't make it worse for America and the Planet.

💔💙 ☮️🌻🕯️🕊️💜

"It's worth the cost of, unfortunately, some gun deaths [...] so that we can have the Second Amendment". -

The whole thing is so much hot air and BS.
It was not even good theater.

types insisting they know exactly what didn't happen have pretty much drained whatever interest I had in participating.

Conversations get hijacked by the barking mad refrain of, “If you don’t accept my opinion, you're a kook too!!!” and it leaves me craving something less combative... like religion, the Dallas Cowboys, or the idea that “hungry people shouldn't buy chocolate.”