Obama will be assassinated if he wins...

[driveway]

Originally Posted by CaptainCrunch

Back to the assasination thing. With the right long rifle, the right scope, and the right conditions, I can pretty much put a bullet through a balloon at 4 to 500 yards 8 out of 10 times.

And if we decided to track down someone who could actually shoot, we wouldn't even have to get that close! Like this guy:

The longest range recorded for sniper kill is 2,430 metres (2,657 yd), accomplished by a sniper from Newfoundland, Corporal Rob Furlong, during the invasion of Afghanistan, serving the Canadian Forces, using a .50 caliber BMG (12.7 mm) McMillan TAC-50 bolt-action rifle. This meant that the bullet had a flight time of ≈ 4.5 seconds, and a drophttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traject...le#Height_at_x of ≈ 70 meters (230 ft).

source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sniper#Range

[CaptainCrunch]

Originally Posted by Azure

IIRC, there really wasn't a Secret Service back then.

Plus, you probably shouldn't be using 'SS'....some conspiracy nut might confuse it with the infamous German SS....and think they're both the same thing.

And presto, we have to deal with another ridiculous theory, just because you were too lazy to type out the correct wording.

I panicked, I couldn't remember what they called them back then, or what branch of government service they came from.

[Montana Moe]

Originally Posted by CaptainCrunch

But . . . I'm never going to get that near the president to do it in this day and age. However when Kennedy was popped, security was quite different because the last president that was popped was Lincoln, the SS was extremely lax back then.

Don't forget McKinley (1881) and Garfield (1901). Plus the attempts on FDR (1933), and Truman (1950).

The Secret Service was not assigned to the President until 1894, and not full time pretection until 1902.

http://www.treas.gov/usss/history.shtml

I took a Presidential Assassinations course in college, one of the most interesting courses I've attended.