The shooter was 135 meters from Trump. And was a bad shot. With an AR-style rifle not even zeroed, I (and any semi-competent shooter) could have made that shot — twice. The reason for “twice” is that the AR has almost no recoil and it’s easy to get back on target within half a second or so, which is before the target has time to react (partially because bullets travel faster than the speed of sound).

I want to stress that I’m not being some kind of badass here. 135 meters at a human-size target just standing there from a prone position is so, so fucking easy. I was routinely hitting targets at 300 meters in the army, for example. It’s not some superhuman feat. The shooter was just a bad shot.

(Yes, technically, he grazed Trump. Still a bad shot.)