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Twice in two days I watched a cop on TV talking about what an amateur the guy is. They haven’t found him yet, so who’s the amateur? LOL
Comment by withywander at 07/12/2024 at 08:24 UTC
16 upvotes, 1 direct replies
Has anyone looked into which insurance company the NYPD are using lol?
Comment by Significant-Dream991 at 07/12/2024 at 16:19 UTC
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By "amateur" he more likely means he isn't a hired hitman and just a regular person
Comment by niftystopwat at 07/12/2024 at 12:15 UTC
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lol and amateur by what metric? Is there some big book of industry-standard high profile CEO assassinations for us to compare to?
Comment by thepokemonGOAT at 07/12/2024 at 14:50 UTC
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Without seeing the clip myself, it sounds to me that they mean "amateur" in the literal sense. Amateur, as in he's not a professional hitman or a career gun for hire.
Comment by Voidrunner01 at 07/12/2024 at 15:18 UTC
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The experts are killing me with their dumb-ass takes. The police and their experts are talking about how they think he may have used a modern Welrod-type gun. Which is a bolt-action pistol with a rotary bolt and an integral suppressor. Except if you've spent any time at all around handguns, it's 100% obvious that isn't what the shooter is using and it's simply a regular modern semi-automatic with a suppressor. To further add to the implausibility, the modern Welrod is the B&T Station Six.
B&T imported about 250 of them, and they have an MSRP of 2250.
But no, no. The "experts" totally think that's what he used. Like he's Baba fucking Yaga.
Comment by gorlaz34 at 07/12/2024 at 20:18 UTC
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Cops are idiots.
Comment by Razorwipe at 07/12/2024 at 11:49 UTC
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An amateur could do this.
All it takes is a little planning
Comment by fruttypebbles at 07/12/2024 at 19:03 UTC
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I was listening to a talk radio show and the expert being interviewed said the shooter is an amateur. A professional would use a .22 for the hot and also the gun jammed a few times. A pro would have a high quality weapon that didn’t have issues. Maybe the shooter staged it to look clueless. That might be part of the plan to screw with the cops.
Comment by dnbdawg at 07/12/2024 at 16:49 UTC
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to be fair he didn’t even test his firearm, I’d assume a professional assassin would have a weapon that can cycle lol
but that just proves that anyone of us have the capability to do something like this, it’s not like you need life long training to plan a shooting, just need to be pushed to the point that you think it’s the only option
Comment by [deleted] at 07/12/2024 at 13:25 UTC
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Sounds like a skill issue lol