Current Events > Is anyone actually untouchable?

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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.

I am.

When it comes to women.

Ba-dum-tsss

Unless you're hiding in the shadows, avoiding as much attention as possible? No, not really.

People who assume they're invincible, people who think they're gods? They all have one thing in common.

That look of terror on their faces when they find out they aren't.

This is tinfoil hat-tier but I truly believe there are people who are so wealthy and influential that their net worths aren't readily-available information and they live lives completely out of the public eye with their identities being largely held secret.

Keauna Reeves
But yeah, basically no one else.

Thermador446 posted...

Keauna Reeves
But yeah, basically no one else.

And hopefully his dog.

Thermador446 posted...

Keauna Reeves

So is that pronounced like marijuana or are we going French and it's like Kona?

No one is untouchable and if anything it is somewhat more difficult now just due to the heavy amount of Big Brother'ing that might end it before it starts. It doesn't happen more more because it is essentially a suicide run for just a chance at accomplishing it. For individuals it is just a function of knowing somewhere they will be publicly, your ability to get the implements to and in said location.

So the less known public appearances and more secure locations those occur at the harder it is, but most people aren't nuts enough to take on the endeavor in the first place.

No one is untouchable. It just becomes a question of what has to be sacrificed to get at them and who is willing to pay that.

Only Dr. Manhattan.

A few cartel heads, probably.

Umbreon posted...

Unless you're hiding in the shadows, avoiding as much attention as possible? No, not really.

People who assume they're invincible, people who think they're gods? They all have one thing in common.

That look of terror on their faces when they find out they aren't.

Oh I love that look. Its like this right?
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/c/ccc21aca.jpg