Mr. Kirk, a close ally of President Trump, was shot while speaking at Utah Valley University. The authorities were still searching for the shooter, with no one in custody.

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    17 hours ago

    Because it was on a college campus and the shot came from over 200 yards away. That is a highly skilled marksmen.

    Have you ever had trouble accessing a building on a college campus?

    This was premeditated. Whoever pulled that trigger knew they were gonna have to blend in before being invisible before blending in again.

    Well probably know roughly what building and floor the shot came from sometime today. We’ll find out it was a building anyone could get into and didn’t have excellent surveillance, was under construction, or was otherwise vacant.

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      5 hours ago

      Yep, I agree, and it sounds like they think he got there only 20 or so min before he took the shot. He knew exactly where they were setup and what he needed to do.

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      university/college campus buildings are notoriously easy to get into. Doors unlocked pretty much 24 hours, Libraries open late, etc. I mean hell I’d still go to my University library and student lounge areas well after I graduated late at night to do work because the wifi was excellent and…no one bothered you. One night I even passed out and fell asleep in the lounge and no one woke me up. Plus Campus Police are like a middle ground between security guards and actual cops.

      So a dude rolling in to one of the buildings from like 200+ yards away to set up a shot with a rifle doesn’t surprise me at all. It was a pretty good shot too if you saw the video so they had time. Probably had a decent amount of time to slip out also.

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      Is 200 yards skilled?

      This is America, so I’m assuming y’all have better marksmen than me and that’s not even a moving target. That’s sub 200m shot, if you’ve got a stable firing position that’s really not that bad.

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        16 hours ago

        Yes, obviously it is “skilled” as in the person has had to develop specific skills taking at least hundreds and probably thousands of hours to have the capacity to do that. No one was saying it was a world record shot.

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          Literally every veteran could make that shot with iron sights. We had to qualify on 200 yard targets. With a scope, you could probably include every hunter in the US as well. 200 yards isn’t a long shot.

          Oh yeah, and every single Girlscout or Bouscout that has their archery badge, or their shooting badge, not marksman that’s a different badge, would be able to make that shot.

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          14 hours ago

          200 yards would be a pretty normal deer hunting shot, remember that people use scopes. Something actually impressive would be more like a mile. (1760 yards)