LogFAQs > #986366058

I feel like even though the Kennedy assassinations, the attempt on Reagan, etc. happened in living memory, we've had a few decades where everyone just sort of accepted the premise that important people have an impenetrable wall of security that made them ~99.9999% safe from violence. But now like, Trump had a nearly successful attempt on his life, Shinzo Abe got shot in a country with actual gun control and his killer basically got everything they wanted out of it, Luigi managed to kill someone in broad daylight in a crowded city and basically taunt the authorities about it and he only got caught well after the fact, and now so far it seems like Kirk's killer also got away cleanly.

I'm not saying would-be assassins everywhere have great odds of succeeding, as we still see plenty of easily foiled attempts, but it feels like killing someone is considerably more attainable than we intuit it to be. Is that really the case? The whole saying about only having to get lucky once applies. Are we going to keep seeing more targeted violence as successes inspire more successes? How safe are people like Putin or Xi in even more authoritarian countries? Are they untouchable or is it just that no one competent and motivated has had the right opportunity? We're living in unprecedented times and this seems like just one of the many ways everything can get even more chaotic in coming years.