The famous gun battle scene in Heat is probably closest to what real weapons fire would sound like in that setting: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Us5dEocwWjw
Yeesh. Scouting ahead of time. Hiding caches ahead of time. Having the exact sized ladder needed. Getting in early to use a range finder. Having a remote detonator to explosives in his car. Flying a drone on a pre-programmed flight path for additional scouting.
In an alternate universe, you’re hiring this guy to set up your security perimeter.
The snap-pop sound? The snap part is the sonic boom of the bullet (like a whip). The pop is the gunpowder burning (like a firecracker). The further away from the shoot and the faster the bullet, the more distinct/separated the snap and pop will be.
Well that was in a canyon of office buildings, but even on first viewing I was amazed out how accurately loud they made the fire from short barrel military-caliber automatic weapons sound. They are fucking LOUD close up. It’s like the difference between trap/skeet shot and high-brass in a shotgun. One is a boom and the other is a BOOM.
The shooter used his drone 6 days before the rally. He had researched and presumably made a bomb. It appears there was a great deal of planning in his assassination attempt.
FYI … the sound made by an AR-15 platform rifle, at close range, with and without a suppressor (“silencer”).
About a minute:
It blows my mind that this happened just a week ago; it seems like forever ago with the convention afterwards.
The director of the Secret Service has resigned
As predictable as the sunrise. Her agency failed. Then she failed miserably in front of the committee. She had to go.
her testimony yest. was a disaster. really unbelievable.
the secret service has been in trouble on and off for quite some time. hopefully they can get a new director who can get the agency back on its feet.
Without a doubt. I’d like to see the agent in charge of the actual event go as well.
That agent’s career is effectively over.
Most likely not an appointee so it’s not so easy to fire them.
I didn’t watch it, but when was the last time testimony to a Congressional committee was not a disaster? The committee members aren’t asking questions in order to get answers, but to score political points.
I can understand her resigning because of her poor performance in the Congress hearing, but I don’t think the mistake on 7/13 were her fault. You can hardly expect the director herself to be micromanaging things to the point where she would be scanning the scene and personally ordering agents to watch this roof or ID that suspicious guy.
The person testifying should be well prepared and briefed on answers to questions which are likely come up. She didn’t seem prepared. She seemed like she just wanted to explain things off the top of her head. She should have had answers to expected questions like “How many times did Trump’s team ask for additional support and were denied?”, along with the details about why each specific request was denied. I wouldn’t expect her to have the answers on the day of the event, but she should have been prepping for these types questions ahead of testifying.
She needs to be able to explain why they weren’t monitoring the roof. If someone screwed up and violated procedures, how did that happen? Why did no one else see the failure at the time? Things like this don’t happen because one guy messed up, a whole lot of things need to go wrong, and ultimately, the Director is responsible for that.
Like the captain of a ship the Director is ultimately responsible for seeing to it that competent and trustworthy people have responsibilities delegated to them, procedure happens correctly and produces the right results. Yes occasionally s*** will happen no matter what, but that doesn’t appear to be the case here. To paraphrase Lysander Spooner, it has either authorized , or has been powerless to prevent it.
There was a lot of grandstanding. There were also questions that needed to be answered. You can dismiss the grandstanding but she was unable to answer the basic questions adequately.
yes, there are those who were grand standing. seriously, i have not seen anything like what she did yest. since kavanaugh threw a hissy fit in the senate. not that she threw a hissy fit, but was flat out horrible.
basic timeline questions, simple questions on secret service operations, where does the investigation stand, were all things she did not or would not answer. you could get more information in this thread that you did from ms cheatle.
True, but I watched some of it yesterday, and even the showboaters, the usual suspects, all had valid points—albeit, delivered in a manner that made me want to punch their faces. She was horrible. Ill-prepared, evasive. If she wasn’t toast before the questioning (she probably was), her “performance” sealed the deal.
Some things aren’t partisan, even if the typical jerk-offs make it seem so. This was a tremendous #$&*-up. She had to go.